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"the sound alone would kill anyone standing at the launchpad during liftoff." Didn't know you could die from sound. Curious as to how that works.
by hw 9y ago
"the sound alone would kill anyone standing at the launchpad during liftoff."
Didn't know you could die from sound. Curious as to how that works.
- saganus 9y agoI imagine the sound pressure would liquefy your organs. Just speculating here but a "sound wave" at those energies could be similar to a shock wave from an explosive.
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- mikeash 9y agoJust to give an idea of how loud this is: have you ever watched a video of a launch and heard a crackle in the rumble? It sounds like the sound is overdriving the microphone and clipping, but it’s not. It’s overdriving the air. Sound is variation in air pressure, with the peaks of the wave representing the maximum pressure and the troughs representing the minimum. But there’s a hard floor on how low the minimum can go. Once you hit zero pressure, that’s it. The waveform clips. That’s the crackle in a rocket launch.