Be Found Like Dory: Mission Possible With Echolocation
One of my all-time favorite animated movies is Disney’s Finding Dory, which is the sequel to the animated classic Finding Nemo. However, as the title implies, the film focuses on their blue tank friend Dory on her journey to find her parents since she forgot her parents’ appearances due to her short-term memory loss.
In Dory’s journey, not only her already-known friends, Marlin and Nemo helped her but also the new ones, such as the whales living in their sanctuaries, which are Dorothy, a whale shark, and Bailey, a beluga whale.
I am deeply amazed when I learned that Bailey has a sense called “echolocation” that helped Dory find her way back to her ocean friends and her parents. Using Bailey’s ability to echolocate something even from far away, this is the one that I have quickly thought when we think of the question of having a sixth sense.
Even though we say that us, humans, are the most superior creature living on planet Earth, we cannot have everything. For instance, there are lots of things that we cannot do that other creatures, such as animals, could perform. Yes, even with our five senses (actually more than that as according to scientists, we have a total of 14–20); yet, we are not possessing the traits of animals, such as echolocation.
However, people like Dory can find her way back home easily if we can echolocate things. To see how a world with echolocation would work, let us apply this to a real life example that occurs way too often.
It’s a common sight to see missing posters of loved ones flying with the wind or soaked wet when pinned against a wall or post. Families could lose and let go of their hope finding them as time passes, knowing their posters are simply just another poster in the streets. The only thing they could do is to sit and wait for the updates of the authorities as time ticks faster.
If we have the ability to echolocate, we can hear sounds from miles away. It would be easier for anyone to track the missing person’s location by hearing their voices from afar. By every howl or shout or cry of pain, anyone could be a hero and locate the missing person, and the grieving family will soon embrace once again in their arms the long lost person. Searching efforts would be far easier.
Another thing is that blind person, even they cannot see with their physical eyes, can now observe the world around them if they can sense sounds from miles away, as well as disturbances and obstacles, that could be enough for them to know where they will go.
It maybe is impossible for me to add senses, as I am not God, but I hope that in the future, someone will invent a fluid that could be injected into us to gain this ability or to have a machine that we could wear like a hat (a la Professor X) and use it for good, as let us not forget that evildoers can also use it.
And with it, Dorys can find their way back home.
