Found this question and answer on a quiz on the Mythbusters website...
True or false? The vibrations caused by cranking up the bass on a car stereo can cause your lungs to collapse.
The correct answer is true. In August 2004 the medical journal Thorax described the cases of four young men who all suffered a collapsed lung -- three while attending a loud concert, and the fourth while listening to his car stereo, which was outfitted with a 1,000-watt bass box. Doctors concluded that loud music could cause the lungs to vibrate at the same frequency of the booming bass, causing a lung to rupture.
Men who are tall, thin and smoke seem to be most susceptible to this condition, so if you meet that description, you may want to turn the bass down a bit in your car stereo -- and keep your distance from the speakers at loud concerts.
>>kinda find it funny that the guy only had a 1000 watt system...lol, and then we have Steve Meade with 20k watts.
and a 1000 watt bass BOX? thats the first time I've ever seen a box rated for watts.
I've seen balloons pop at high sound levels. I don't remember where. Did you know they pump thousands of gallons of water directly under the shuttle when it lifts off? The water absorbs the intense sound pressure generated by the boosters. Without it the platform would shake itself apart. That's extreme sound pressure!!
During liftoff, a 300,000-gallon water tank releases its load through a system of nozzles to create a spray which reduces the volume of the space shuttle from about 200 decibels to about 142 decibels. Without it, the noise of takeoff would damage payloads. The vertical tail structure and composite doors are designed to withstand a 163-decibel acoustic environment.
uhh... without the water flooding into the underground tunnels, the launch rockets would create enough heat as to make all the cement explode, due to the air pockets in even this quality cement. Noise has nothing to do with it.
