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#1686296 - 04/05/12 08:16 PM
The Quietest Place on Earth
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The anechoic chamber at Orfield Laboratories Exerpt: But while the super-silent oasis is a great testbed for various products, it holds a darker side: silence, it turns out, can put a great strain on the human brain. Researchers at NASA test the room's unique acoustic capabilities on humans rather than hardware. The noiselessness is used to simulate the silence of space — an environment astronauts would be well served to grow accustomed to.
What they've found is that when all outside noise is removed from an enclosure, human hearing will do its best to find something to listen to. In a room where almost 100% of sound is muted, people begin to hear things like their own heartbeat at a greatly amplified volume. As the minutes tick by in absolute quiet, the human mind begins to lose its grip, causing test subjects to hallucinate.
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#1686297 - 04/05/12 08:17 PM
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#1686298 - 04/05/12 08:19 PM
Re: The Quietest Place on Earth
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I caught the end of something about this on the radio this morning, coming in. I didn't have a clue what they were talking about, but it's obviously this! Apparently people having a conversation tend to shout at each other in there, because the sound dampening makes it hard to even hear a normal conversation. Sounds like fun to me!
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#1686300 - 04/05/12 08:22 PM
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Awww, the link is blocked. This sounds like an interesting story that I will need to check from home.
Coincidentally, the power went out in my neighborhood last night just as I went to bed and the utter silence made it hard for me to fall asleep. I have to have some sort of background noise. Usually I have a radio on really low volume across the room.
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#1686301 - 04/05/12 08:22 PM
Re: The Quietest Place on Earth
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I guess 45 minutes is the longest anyone has lasted in there. That's what she...wait, no, not going there!
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#1686309 - 04/05/12 08:37 PM
Re: The Quietest Place on Earth
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I guess 45 minutes is the longest anyone has lasted in there. That's what she...wait, no, not going there! Darn that is exactly where I was going.
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#1686334 - 04/05/12 09:17 PM
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Kind of reminds me of the movie Altered States.
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#1686341 - 04/05/12 09:50 PM
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I thought this thread would be about the thoughts of a blonde...
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#1686361 - 04/05/12 10:41 PM
Re: The Quietest Place on Earth
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Coincidentally, the power went out in my neighborhood last night just as I went to bed and the utter silence made it hard for me to fall asleep. I have to have some sort of background noise. Usually I have a radio on really low volume across the room. I'm concerned I won't be able to sleep when I visit home in a few months. It's out in the country so all you hear is nature. I'm thinking of recording a night in Phx and looping it: screaching tires, ghetto birds, people yelling in the not-too-far distance. Kind of reminds me of the movie Altered States. This is actually a really good movie. I'm supposed to go to one of those floating tanks soon and it reminded me of this.
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#1686534 - 04/06/12 04:00 PM
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I thought this was about The Contro Cooler...
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#1686536 - 04/06/12 04:05 PM
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Can the quietest place on earth be a place that doesn't exist?
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#1686547 - 04/06/12 04:20 PM
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I'd like to send one of my coworkers there, then this would be the second quietest place on the planet.
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#1686554 - 04/06/12 04:28 PM
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Kind of reminds me of the movie Altered States. First thing that I thought of!! Caveman anyone?
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#1686580 - 04/06/12 05:01 PM
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I had to google it. Sounds creepy!
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#1686604 - 04/06/12 05:50 PM
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Its cool in a mildly creepy sort of way..... You mean like the BOL Coolies Trollers ? fixed.
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#1686631 - 04/06/12 06:30 PM
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Kind of reminds me of the movie Altered States. Caveman anyone? OMGAWD--PEEPERS!
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#1686635 - 04/06/12 06:37 PM
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"silence, it turns out, can put a great strain on the human brain. "
I know my mother-in-law has believed this for years, and therefore is committed to preventing silence from occurring.
Try driving with her for 45 minutes and see if you can last.
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#1686642 - 04/06/12 06:46 PM
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"silence, it turns out, can put a great strain on the human brain. "
I know my mother-in-law has believed this for years, and therefore is committed to preventing silence from occurring.
Try driving with her for 45 minutes and see if you can last. My son is the same way. He NEVER shuts up!!!! Talks to himself all of the time: in the shower, going to the bathroom, playing on the computer, in his sleep!!! And that's not even him saying: mom, mom, mom, mom, hey mom, mom!!!
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