• Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    Oh, I thought they meant the other kind of “sound” and I am like, that’s a lot of mass to send interstellar for a joke.

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        A medical sound is a surgical steel rod used for “sounding” (ie, probing) parts of the human anatomy. More generally, a sound is any probe or pole used to test depth or similar properties; mapping the depth of a pond with a graduated pole is “sounding the pond”.