@brhfl @violator @gay_ornithischians @futurebird I have a theory which I’ll keep to myself or people will think I’m bonkers

Oh okay you’ve talked me into it

We’re humans, our ears are not just acoustic sensory organs but the earlobes themselves are radio-like and aerial-like and perform sensing that we’re not really aware of because we haven’t thought about it in such a way so we’re not looking in that direction to recognise it, but the ear structure and proximity to the brain allows it to be basically a diversity aerial for – er, something, possibly signals, possibly environmental information, possibly transmitted information, possibly using energy we haven’t yet recognised or detected and therefore haven’t labelled so that we can even conceive of it yet

(Also, not just humans, any animal with ears and an ear structure)

So there