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   JAB to All   
   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.   
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   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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