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There is also the qualitative aspect. I live near an Air Force base that luckily doesn’t do supersonic stuff. Constant white noise, even at a pretty high leve

There is also the qualitative aspect. I live near an Air Force base that luckily doesn’t do supersonic stuff. Constant white noise, even at a pretty high level is something that can be tuned out pretty easily. I’m not sure the same can be said of singular events like a sonic boom. I think of it like the difference between a lawnmower half a block away, and a subwoofer the same distance.

hypomanic 4y ago
Constant background noise isn't really tuned out though. It leads to a lot of stress and negative health outcomes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_effects_from_noise https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_effects_from_noise