u/Wyrd_Alphonse

Back in the late '90s my dad got real depressed and decided to blow his life savings on cocaine and credit card debt. Once he had spent down his own savings he continued on with my mom's life savings in their shared bank account, and then he cannibalized the college funds he and my mom had set up for me and my brother. My mom tried for years to curb his spending, to get ahead of the loan payments, to pay down his ballooning debt: she worked extra nursing shifts at the hospital, she asked her parents for money, she moved us to a cheaper house in a different town, but nothing and no one could stop my dad from torpedoing his own life and ours along with it. Finally she got enough money from her parents to cover what remained of dad's debts, and told him that if he ever got another credit card she'd divorce him on the spot. He got another one the next day.

Neither of my parents regrets what they did. My mom feels she tried her best to protect her children from her husband's mental illness, and when it became clear she couldn't fix him she felt she had to cut him loose. My father told me recently that he has "no regrets" in life because if he and my mom hadn't gotten divorced he would never have met his second wife, the love of his life (who divorced him after 10 years then invited him to come back and live with her a few months later).

The Bible gives only two valid reasons for divorce: 1) "sexual immorality" (Matthew 5:32; 19:9) and 2) and abandonment by an unbeliever (1 Corinthians 7:15). For context, my dad is a lapsed Catholic (12 years of Catholic school, salutatorian of his graduating class) and my mom was raised Methodist and doesn't go to church anymore but considers herself a believer and she fought hard against my dad to get me and my brother baptized (Anglican) when we were infants, which he opposed on general grounds because he felt so betrayed by the Church.

My question is, *which of my parents is God going to have skinned alive by salt-demons until the stars burn out*? My mom for being "disobedient" to her husband, my father for his mental illness and addictions, or both of them?

Can a creature with biosonar get an accurate read on *anything* within earshot, and to what degree does that reading deteriorate with distance?

I realize that there are many, many factors that go into answering this question, ranging from distance to surface, how shallow the water is, the water's temperature and whether it interfaces with water of a different temperature or salinity level, amount and intensity and frequency of background noise, etc, so it's not like there's going to be a single one-size-fits-all answer.

I've heard that a blue whale near the Cape of Good Hope could potentially, under the exact right conditions, hear the song of another blue whale off the coast of Argentina; does this mean said whales could potentially "see" each other with echolocation?