Epimonandas wrote:
Another thing, it would be the loudest sound the world has experienced since the Toba eruption some 75,000 years ago. That would be especially harmful or at least annoying to Aspies.
Not quite, super volcanos are in contention as the loudest natural sound, but there are a number of equally loud man-made sounds.
The Saturn V rocket produced a sustained 192+ db, so loud it clipped the very atmosphere, the sound wave emanating from it shifting back and forth from a vaccuum to more than 2 atmospheres of pressure.
Nuclear weapons are even louder. Tsar Bomba, the 50-megaton Russian weapon, released 2.1x10^17 joules of energy in mere milliseconds, it's estimated peak power output was 5.3x10^24 watts, the average power output of the sun is 383x10^24 watts, a mere 73 times greater.
18 May 2005, 6:04 pm
