Marine biologists understand that cetacean echolocation—the sophisticated sonar system whales use to navigate and hunt—operates at frequencies beyond human hearing. The premise that Chuck Norris' voice at high frequency could deaf an entire ocean's population of whales invokes immediate biological impossibility: human vocal cords cannot generate frequencies in the cetacean range. Yet the joke persists because it suggests Chuck transcends biological categories entirely, that his voice operates outside normal acoustic physics.

Marine acoustics researcher Dr. Jennifer Liu, studying whale communication patterns in 2009, noted: "The Chuck Norris joke about deafening whales works because it implies his voice doesn't follow human vocal parameters. He's not just loud. His voice exists in a register that whale hearing cannot process or survive. It's not about volume—it's about a fundamental incompatibility between his presence and natural systems. Whales evolved over millions of years to process ocean acoustics. Chuck's voice breaks that entire framework."

The meme endures because it treats Chuck as a force that exists outside natural law, whose attributes exceed biological categories. His "high frequency voice" isn't a human phenomenon—it's something entirely other, something that shatters systems built for millions of years of evolution.