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|    The quietest place on Earth    |
|    14 Sep 25 21:48:11    |
      From: here@is.invalid              Science girl@gunsnrosesgirl3              The quietest place on Earth is an anechoic chamber at Orfield       Laboratories in Minnesota.              The space is so quiet that the longest anybody has been able to bear       it was an entire 45 minutes.       ========================              Dr. Simon Hundeshagen @shundeshagen              This nonexistence of all ambient sound is creating a sensory vacuum       that's deeply unsettling to the human brain. In this silence, you       begin to hear your own body in unnerving detail: your heartbeat, the       gurgle of digestion, even the friction of your joints. This extreme       auditory isolation overwhelms the vestibular system and the brain's       spatial orientation mechanisms, which rely on subtle sound cues to       interpret balance and environment. Without external stimuli, the brain       begins to hallucinate sounds and sights to fill the void - similar to       sensory deprivation tanks, but more disorienting. Prolonged exposure       can cause a loss of equilibrium, nausea, and panic, as your body       fights to re-anchor itself in a space where it can no longer "hear"       its place in the world.              https://x.com/gunsnrosesgirl3/status/1967280105006460990              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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