Meh.

I was hiking by myself at about 8000 feet and I saw the lightning strike the ground, in an open meadow, less than 100 feet away from me.

Still makes my stomach knot at the memory and it was 25 years ago.

I think it kind of depends on what he means by 16,000x louder? If he's talking in decibels, then it's already a logarithmic scale, so 16,000x times higher output amplitude is about 84db? higher (which is no joke) not quite sure on the maths there. 16,000db higher is basically impossible unless we are talking a supernova or something.

That puts it at over 204db which is apparently the same volume as the Saturn V launch. Which would definitely kill you, but maybe not 8000 times over... I mean once really does the trick.

If he's talking about the energy input, it seems that's a different thing according to wikipedia, and would result in an increase of 42db, which puts it at 162db, which is about the same as a 12-guage.

He may also mean that the sound is that loud at source, but as the guy was probably trying to say as he was squirming, the distance matters. The sound energy will be dissipated over a 2D shell and so I'd guess it drops off proportional to distance squared plus some extra for loss as it goes.

All of that is in air, it's quite a different matter in the water as I think the force is transmitted more efficiently.

Either way, every 10 seconds for months? No thanks.

What he neglected to say, and would be important, is at 25% higher it is loud enough to cause permanent deafness, <50% higher, around 180, that's loud enough to kill a human. I wish he had asked the witness if he would sit for double the original volume, would that be disruptive? Now ask Trump.
16000 times louder....16000 times, when 2 times louder is well beyond the level that is deadly. Let that sink in. 8000 times louder than deadly. That's not only deafening for hundreds or thousands of miles in every direction (sound travels farther with less loss under water), it's undeniably deadly for miles....every time they ping it....to nearly everything. That level of sonic energy can shatter stone, what would one expect it to do to a tissue paper thin swim bladder?

I am astonished they're still trying this tech after the outrage at the hundreds or thousands of dolphins and whales it killed early on, years ago.

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It's from here:
This quote is attributed to Nobel laureate Baruch Blumberg. In a late 80s PBS documentary, he said half of all human deaths 'may' have been due to malaria.

While it sounds astounding, it's plausible when you think about it. 93% of all humans ever born are dead. But it's a highly speculative business starting from how many people have ever lived.

Prof Carl Haub has come up with an estimate of 108 billion people since 50,000 BC. And only 6.5% of these are alive today. How Many People Have Ever Lived on Earth?

So did malaria cause the death of roughly 54 billion people? We can speculate. More than 96 billion of these 108 billion lived between 8000 BC and 1900 AD. For malaria to have caused the death of 54 billion people, it should have kept up a phenomenal rate of 5.4 million deaths per year in the last 10,000 years.

WHO estimates of 650,000 deaths per year now seem wildly off the mark. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funded a study to find out how many deaths occur due to malaria in today's day and age. The number was 1.24 million in 2010! http://www.bbc.com/news/health-1...

So it's certainly plausible that malaria could have killed five times as many in an age pre-dating modern medicine when most of the world lived as communes along with their cattle and herds.

Also, the longevity of the parasite plasmodium, which causes malaria. Studies have revealed that it's been around since the time of the dinosaurs. And certainly been around from the beginning of our story. http://www.malaria.com/questions...

Entirely plausible!

https://www.quora.com/The-Human-Race-and-Condition-Is-it-true-that-mosquitoes-have-killed-more-than-half-of-all-the-people-who-have-ever-lived

It's sounding like this is a 'storage facility' where natural gas, methane, and other gasses are pumped to 'storage tanks' over 8000 ft below ground (and I'm fairly certain the term 'storage tank' means 'a gas pocket we sucked dry 45 years ago', not an actual tank. This means this is not the only 'tank' at the facility, and blowing one up isn't a good idea, blowing them ALL up would be pretty disastrous, and probably release far more gas than the current disaster.

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Ugly watch !!!

Much prefer the $2000 - $8000 watches from here
http://videosift.com/video/Look-over-the-watchmakers-shoulders

Whoa! Tarmac removal in Whitehorse, biggest news all summer there huh? In Pagosa Springs, Co. their airport has a 100' wide by 8000' long air strip and once I watched a C-130 Hercules on approach headed down. Teensy mountain resort town with mostly private small jets landing daily....quite a sight to see one of the largest planes ever coming-in low in the middle of nowhere!

Took 8000 tries, but here it is. A good life again!

You really did it with this one deathcow, some of the most irritating hipster shit ever heard, complete with squeaky, no-talent frontfluff and hipster-don with an $8000 baritone sax he barely has the lungs for.....WITH a fucking reggae beat??!

How did you find this, whitest of the whitest white music evah!!??

*edit:... recently signed by Columbia, indie siblings, musical family, blah blah blah..it's the end of the goddamn world.

Individually health care cost in the UK average around £2000 per person per year. Average earnings for salaried employees is £26,500
So we pay health care tax of approximately 7.5% of an average income.

In the US the average health care spend per person, per year is around $8000 (£5000). Average per captia income was $28,000 in 2011 (which I was surprised by).
This makes health care costs 28% of income. And that can't right. I mean really can't be right - I must have sum wrong somewhere...
Even if we use the average household income instead: $53,000 it's still 15%. Double that of the UK.

With that level of spending I would expect the US to have by far the highest level of health care to be found anywhere on the planet.

You're welcome to create a topic of conversation but I don't think a copy/paste job is on. How about linking to an article and giving your brief take on why we should be discussing it?

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Just saw the link (was it there before?) which in turn looks a bit fake. And one article has over 8000 spammy comments.