can sound kill – Silencity

Something to consider before you buy a house:

Outer Loop noise startles nearby homeowners.

You save money for a deposit, gird yourself as you plunk it down, and, finally, embrace home ownership. Congratulations! Sadly, a few years later a stretch of highway that had been planned finally opens and your peaceful home becomes a hellhole. As the residents of Feyetteville are learning, there are few options, especially for those who purchased homes in neigborhoods that did not predate the planning for the new stretch of road. Buyer beware.

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Can Sound Kill You?

The short answer is “yes,” theoretically. The long answer, thankfully, is that “it would be difficult, and perhaps impossible, to artificially generate a noise loud enough to kill a person.” Wondering how loud a sound must be to kill and how sound alone could kill a human? Here are your answers:

[I]’s been speculated that 195 decibels would do the trick. (By comparison, normal conversation registers at 60 dB; an ambulance siren at 10 feet is about 115 dB). At that volume, air pressure fluctuations would be severe enough to damage your lungs, creating lethal air bubbles in the blood or simply causing the lungs to pop like balloons.

Now you know what your nightmare will feature tonight!

Link via @QuietMark.

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Something to consider before you buy a house:

Can Sound Kill You?