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Full Title: Inside the quietest room in the world: Microsoft reveals the $1.5m ‘chamber of silence’ it uses to tune everything from headphones to the click of your mouse button - that's so quiet no one has been able to spend more than 45 minutes inside
1 posted on 03/01/2019 5:55:41 AM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin
Would you believe ... second quietest room?


2 posted on 03/01/2019 6:00:14 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: BenLurkin

With my massive tinnitus symptoms, I wonder if I could break that record. Does bringing your own noise count?


3 posted on 03/01/2019 6:01:44 AM PST by GMMC0987
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To: BenLurkin

There are more than a few anechoic chambers around the world that cost a tad more than $1.5M.


5 posted on 03/01/2019 6:02:08 AM PST by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: BenLurkin

Didn’t they have a “cone of silence” on the old Get Smart TV show? Except that when Maxwell Smart and his boss went under it to talk, they ended up shouting at each other because they couldn’t hear what the other was saying.


6 posted on 03/01/2019 6:04:02 AM PST by JohnEBoy
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To: BenLurkin

Maybe we could put Hillary inside it and shut the door.


8 posted on 03/01/2019 6:06:36 AM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (If you want a definition of "bullying" just watch the Democrats in the Senate)
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To: BenLurkin

When I moved to my house in suburbia, at first, it was too quiet and I had trouble falling asleep. Nowadays, thanks to the wonders of Bluetooth speakers, I can fall asleep to the pleasant sounds of a (mild) thunderstorm, and it shuts itself off when it’s done. Huzzah.


11 posted on 03/01/2019 6:13:37 AM PST by Kommodor (Terrorist, Journalist or Democrat? I can't tell the difference.)
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To: BenLurkin

They should hear my classroom.


15 posted on 03/01/2019 6:21:36 AM PST by struggle
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To: BenLurkin
Some people come in for a minute and want out immediately,’

Sensory deprivation causes inefficiency of and loss of control of one's consciousness.

Leftardism causes conceptual deprivation which causes concrete bound mentality which causes lethargy, or hysterical hatred and anger, or irrational fantasies.

Leftardism also causes cultural value deprivation which causes the feeling that life is meaningless and actions are not worth doing, which causes loss of motivation. Loss of motivation to act causes leftard dependency and parasitism.

16 posted on 03/01/2019 6:22:40 AM PST by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: BenLurkin

All the better to blue screen, my dear


17 posted on 03/01/2019 6:26:53 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: BenLurkin

You find the darnedest things... How much you want to bet there is still a natural detectable vibration resonance in that room.


20 posted on 03/01/2019 6:37:50 AM PST by Openurmind
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To: BenLurkin

IBM had one of these rooms to do acoustic analysis on their printers. I worked in one briefly. I could hear my own heart beat when inside. It was sort of cool.


22 posted on 03/01/2019 6:40:47 AM PST by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting)
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To: BenLurkin

I worked for (and retired from) an automotive company that built such a room in the 1950s. It was larger, and cost more in 2019 dollars than the Microsoft anechoic chamber. In addition, it has numerous semi-anechoic rooms large enough for testing automobiles, including dynamometers for absorbing power from all the wheels. (Semi-anechoic means that all side and up directions are anechoic, but the bottom reflects sound, just like a road.)


28 posted on 03/01/2019 7:18:42 AM PST by norwaypinesavage (Calm down and enjoy the ride, great things are happening for our country)
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To: BenLurkin

How about cheaper mouses that aren’t so perfectly tuned.


31 posted on 03/01/2019 8:12:06 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.S)
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To: BenLurkin
Nope. Still hear it.


35 posted on 03/01/2019 8:30:36 AM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: BenLurkin

Perfect silence is not normal. We are used to a background noise level of about 30 dB.


36 posted on 03/01/2019 8:34:16 AM PST by I want the USA back (Lying Media: willing and eager allies of the hate-America left.)
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To: BenLurkin; Gamecock; SaveFerris; PROCON; Yaelle
Outside the wall: "You bastard!"

"Did you hear something?"

"I heard that!"


37 posted on 03/01/2019 8:44:14 AM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: BenLurkin

I used to work for a company that had an anechoic chamber. I’d take people in there and turn the lights out. It’s almost total sensory deprivation. You start to lose your balance in a minute or so.


39 posted on 03/01/2019 9:46:06 AM PST by cyclotic ( Democrats must be politically eviscerated, disemboweled and demolished.)
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