What Is 10 Trillion Times More Powerful Than A Heartbeat?
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#3Now I want to go and find one of these drag events, so I can experience it. Further curious I was searching and found this chart...not sure of the accuracy.
http://www.makeitlouder.com/Decibel%20Level%20Chart.txt
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#4Doesn't that permanently damage the hearing?
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#5This seems... hazardous.
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#6Doesn't that permanently damage the hearing?
Certainly can.
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#7Doesn't that permanently damage the hearing?
Yes it does.
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#8Doesn't that permanently damage the hearing?
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 hundred trucks that weigh several tons drive across the bridge then that damage would be quite severe. A million people regularly shuffling every day would be quite damaging over a long period of time, but the effect of a thousand large trucks is far more damaging.
My point is, listening to really loud low frequency sounds isn't as damaging as listening to really loud high frequency sounds.
Now, my comparison is really poor and heavy trucks cause far more damage than people, but the comparison between 'low frequency' and 'high frequency' is apt -- high damage to roads comes from high weight concentrated on a small point of impact in the same way that high damage to hearing comes from high frequency sound.
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#9I 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.
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#10Doesn't that permanently damage the hearing?
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…
> 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.
Except that bridges aren't self-repairing organisms, so the analogy is flawed in that sense too.