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Jul 6, 2017 11:33 AM
Imakeyoulaughlongtime
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tatertot127
not as loud as your mom
Pretzelenthusiasts
KRAKATOA!!!!!!!
Motherbored
DickMcStiffens
I didn't hear it.
DrunkSnowWhite
1883 wasn't THAT long ago though
derppatrol
1883 was a pretty industrialized and scientific time, they weren't exactly carving in stone tablets, people had telegraphs and trains.
Imhereforthelurking
Telegraph, trains, mail, and early phone designs. Also lots of sciency type with every doodad and thingum for measuring everything known.
excepttheoneswhoaredead
It's a shame about the diamonds. At least they got away with their balloons
JasonThorn
wlfman
I'm curious how long it took....I guess I could do the math but meh, I don't feel like it
Aeturo
According to other comments, 27 minutes
wlfman
thanks, friend
donkamus
The telegraph.
goosenman
I think you'll find the scream at 2am from stepping on a piece of Lego, is actually louder.
Mepharias
Everyone within 60km went deaf
Snickaaman
TheWetLustyArgonianMaidRIP
I was looking for this.
ImNotAnOrange
If lots of places record hearing a loud unexplainable noise about the same time they just keep looking for reference to loud noise until
ImNotAnOrange
They find something that logically explains the noise. Chances are people the closer people were the bigger a deal it was
iwantthepoints
They probably just heard an echo
DonaldBlakeMD
Echos function in a different way bouncing the sound waves off of the appropriate location. This is the force of the sound waves being 1/2
MrLeesGreaterHongKong
It was heard by people in 50 places around the world: http://nautil.us/blog/the-sound-so-loud-that-it-circled-the-earth-four-times
Lordhartley
Thanks, interesting read..
HeyOP
1) They shared the information with others, the information spread, the time was noted by some in letters and official logs
HeyOP
2) (ships, military, etc), someone (or a number of people) noticed the coincidence, someone (or a number of) traced it down. As a guess.
InkyBlinkyPinkyAndClyde
Yeah. They may not have come to the conclusion that it went around the earth multiple times till later.
tracereading
After about 195 decibels or so it's not really sound anymore.
TheJinxer
Because you're fucking deaf lol
DonaldBlakeMD
Actually in air* 194 is the highest decible level that will come out as clear sounds, after that it's a shockwave that sounds distorted.
HappyJello
Based on forensic evidence, they could probably estimate the sound of the explosion
avianidiot
1883 was after the invention of trains and telegraphs and telephones, im sure they all knew what volcanoes were.
djnikk
So where is the recording... I want to hear it!
DonaldBlakeMD
"PLAY IT ALREADY" "I already played it" WHAT?" "I said I already.. ugh, nevermind"
Iwasoutedbyatroll
"Did you hear that?" was also asked a record number of times that day.
IWannaShowYouThis
and along with, "What did you say??"
SomebodyNeedaHug
that and many otherr responses in many different languages
feldsPieMagnet
The calculus theorem
WellWellWellLookWhoItIs
You think 1883 is like ancient history? The US was already >100 y old, Sir Isaac Newton had been dead for >150 y, Albert Einstein was 4...
Dagordae
20 years after the end of the US Civil War. 5 years before the first film. 12 years after Bell's telephone. And so on.
Radiorifle
This should be higher up haha
Dagordae
People wrote down that today there was a big mysterious noise. Then they compared notes and found out that everyone heard it. Then someone
Dagordae
Pointed out that that was when that island over there exploded. Much later people with science confirmed the dates.
advocate0426350
In 1883 they didn't have equipment to monitor that....
DonaldBlakeMD
Yes, yes they did. Also, a large number of different documents were recording a loud bang happening in the same day roughly the same time.
advocate0426350
Loud bang, documents... nope
SirReginaldVonBartlesbeid
https://m.popkey.co/8425bc/lkdkL.gif
KAZ25Y
There it is
BearRaid
The entire world hears a huge explosion at the same time and you think no-one was gonna investigate?
RE5ERVED
Lol the double calculations. One for half way and the other for all the way
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kohrah
you know that airplanes go faster than sound, right? 15 min is pretty small world
sclev
"meet the sound coming the other way." I feel like an idiot.
LoudBirb
Hours. Roughly 16 hours to get to the opposite side and meet the sound coming the other way.
MexicanCokeIsDelicioso
Yay, math! https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100322171539AAu3APG
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FindYourChillMate
With how fast information travelled in the 19th century its pretty much the same time.
BearRaid
Exactly this.
BearForceTwo
it would take over 30 HOURS to travel around the earth
HalloweenAintTillManana
Fuck, ya the site I looked at was doing it for 350 miles. Dammit.
JackieTreehornProductions
It would be cool if sound took exactly 24 hrs to lap the globe, then hearing it at the exact same time the next day wld/hv been confusing!
BearForceTwo
going with the same logic, imagine having a powerful voice that could travel the world in 24 hours , you could say good morning to yourself!
glovelyday
The world wasn't nearly as noisy in 1883. Random booms were noted.
futureman3000
I'm pretty sure the sound of an entire island exploding would still be "noted," despite, like, jets and traffic and stuff.
glovelyday
But not from 5000 km away like this one was.
DonaldBlakeMD
Word spreads. Also even with our world as loud as it is now, half of Europe, all of Asia, many islands and the western half of the us would.
Thneitis
Western half of us here. Can confirm, gets very quiet in places
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TwistMyNipples
You're not qrong
TwistMyNipples
Wrong
SexyPalpatine
Wong
glovelyday
It's not less, it's fewer.
glovellyday
Oh saying Fuhrer again are we? TWAT
Tassyr
Aw, what was it?
Madon8
The world may never know
ToniforusMaximus
That's a really good point
HitlersArtCritic
If you heard a random boom today, you'd think it was a car or some kids.
DarkVeva
Damn kids on the other side of the world creating random booms!
DerWolf1309
Really? Surely the Tsar Bomba must've been louder than that.
dandydust
There have been volcano eruptions so big the lava from it could cover the entire U.S. under a kilometer
DonaldBlakeMD
It was actually 4 times as powerful as the Tsar Bomba https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krakatoa
DerWolf1309
Holy shit.
Polaris7
Remember, humanity ain't got shit on nature
TheBritfag
I bet we could beat it if we wanted to, though.
Dagordae
Nowhere close. Volcanic eruptions put out an absolutely absurd amount of energy, nothing we make can even come close to a big one.
InternationalPhoneticAlphabet
we have enough nuclear bombs in the world to destroy the entire earth iirc. surely, if we actually wanted to, we could make a >
InternationalPhoneticAlphabet
> record-breaking BOOM?
Dagordae
We have nowhere near the number of nukes needed to destroy the planet. Hell, we don't even have enough to crack the crust. We have enough
Dagordae
to temporarily fuck of the biosphere, but in the terms of nature it would be a relatively minor extinction event. Conversely, the planet
Erkhyan
We have enough bombs to wipe complex life. Not even anywhere close to putting a scratch on the planet itself.
SayCarRamRod
Some guy woke up one morning and was like "damn that was loud, sounds like Krakatoa erupted or something..." then he fell back asleep.
fullofwastedpotential
/a/UoXna
squishcat
OMG lol. Much love to you.
eltonjohnjr
Then woke up an hour later.. "damn, again?"
hamberders
Multiple times...
noctynight
Old times snooze button; apocalyptic edition.
kutison
The pressure wave was recorded by early barometers traveling around the world. Sailors on a boat suffered ruptured eardrums 40 miles away.
kutison
"Pressure wave was recorded on barographs all over the world. Several barographs recorded the wave seven times over the course of five days"
SayCarRamRod
That's honestly really impressive. Now I wonder what it would sound like it Yellowstone decided to wake up.
iAmNature
Well anything withing a 100 mile radius would be so dead. Most of the US would be covered in ash so it would die.
ShamusMcWright
it would sound like the extinction of modern civilization
iAmNature
And a cloud of shit would fuck the temperature up worldwide and shit would suck for a long time.
kutison
It all depends on the style of eruption.
SayCarRamRod
A biggun
Jomini001
Telegraph my friend. The telegraph. Every figured out that they all heard some crazy shit and someone in Hawaii was like "our bad"
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Imhereforthelurking
2/ After so long the source would, long made short, be triangulate by sheer volume and number saying" where the hell did that come from?!?"
TheRealRhodry
I can see some guy in Australia using morse code to say 'OI WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT MATE?'
ILiekToCookAndBake
Think about the statement you made. Think of the time period. How in the FUCK did they get a telegraph line to Hawaii.
SirSaitamaCDXX
Hawaiian Bell Telephone company https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaiian_Telcom
ILiekToCookAndBake
MidlandRedux
Submarine cables, dude. By 1894 all the way to Australia. http://atlantic-cable.com/Article/1895MunroNerves/Submarine-cable-map.jpg
Jomini001
Yeah I wasn't thinking. But the gist of the point is he same. People communicated and somebody said "yeah that was us".
Bogaerdus
Krakatoa's kinda far from Hawaii though..
Jomini001
Yeah, brain fart. You get the idea though.
futureman3000
"Is it...? Our bad." -- Hawaii
hetriedtokillmewithaforklift
I hear it's east of Java.
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hetriedtokillmewithaforklift
Well, it depends how far you want to travel.
Mobileuserwholikestoberandom
And West of Python
SmartererThanYou
North from the sharp sea