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Probably bad for your hearing too (piefedimages.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com)

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For reference, the loudest sound ever on earth was 180dB https://wikipedia.org/wiki/1883_eruption_of_Krakatoa

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[-] CuriousRefugee@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 months ago

Oh god how have I never realized this. You monster!

Also, it's crazy to me that we still use the normal metric prefixes for a logarithmic scale!

[-] lime@feddit.nu 4 points 2 months ago

it's like with earthquakes, the number is for the amount of zeroes

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