My first thought when I saw that headline: Prejudice
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What Is 10 Trillion Times More Powerful Than A Heartbeat?
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#32I was at kiss within the last two weeks and you didn't hear the music, you felt it as your hearing slowly failed. I forgot to bring earplugs, something I would never recommend, and I could hear not a thing at the end of the concert. Thinking of something so loud that it makes objects move.... nope.
Well, it's not hard to make things move with sound. I'll bet there was a good amount of wind being generated by the speakers at that concert, and indeed every concert. My home stereo system can blow papers around if I set those papers right in front of the subwoofer. The speakers in my car and blow papers around if they're laying on the floor. Speakers move air. That's what they do. Making objects move is a simple as…
There's a subjective jump between "this is loud" and "I can feel the music rattle my chest."
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#33I was at kiss within the last two weeks and you didn't hear the music, you felt it as your hearing slowly failed. I forgot to bring earplugs, something I would never recommend, and I could hear not a thing at the end of the concert. Thinking of something so loud that it makes objects move.... nope.
The loudest concert I ever went to was Rush in 1990 at the Charlotte Coliseum (the "Presto" tour with the inflatable rabbit). Even though I wore earplugs, my hearing still rang for 3 days afterwards. No more indoor concerts for me!
Unfortunately 'ringing' in the ears is a sign of permanent hearing loss. The hairs in the cochlea snap. The brain eventually adapts and filters out the ringing, but the actual damage can't be reversed.
Re: What Is 10 Trillion Times More Powerful Than A Heartbeat?
#34>The Kiss concert in Ottawa was, says David, "17,000 times louder and ten trillion times more powerful than a heartbeat." Can anybody convert this to libraries of congress for me? Or perhaps elephants standing on a postage stamp?
Hey it's Canada we use poutines/decilitre or the ratio of hockey rinks to lacrosse rink, even more rare is the Thicke but that's more for density.
Re: What Is 10 Trillion Times More Powerful Than A Heartbeat?
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's permanently damaged in the sense that a bridge is permanently damaged by people walking over it -- simply put, hearing sound erodes your ear drums regardless of how minute it is. Now, whether listening to really loud things escalates the hearing loss is probably what you were asking. If a million people were shuffling along a bridge and they all walked gently then the bridge will be damaged minimally, but if a h…
This would be a valid comparison if the bridge healed itself. Similarly, walking damages your leg bones due to the impact / stress of gravity - but your bones actually strengthen due to use, as they are continuously being rebuilt, and they adapt to such changes. Too much can definitely cause permanent damage, but below that point it's not necessarily cumulative.
Bridges generally do heal themselves - they have a small colony of symbiotic (parasitic?) humans that take care of them. Some bridges fall into disrepair because their symbiotes have been compromised.