Since we have done nothing to curb the birth rate, if this was real, which it isn’t, it would be a terrible idea.
Since we have done nothing to curb the birth rate, if this was real, which it isn’t, it would be a terrible idea.
Here’s one of the ground sloth caves. I’m amazed they still exist so many thousands of years later!
There’s an article about it in the New York Times which apparently goes into much more detail, but I don’t have a subscription- https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/10/science/silence-sound-hear.html
It is excerpted in this Slashdot post, however, and that may give you enough information to understand it better: https://science.slashdot.org/story/23/07/10/2343221/silence-is-a-sound-you-hear-study-suggests
To sum up, it’s not about total silence, it’s about perceiving gaps in louder sounds as “sound” rather than the lack of sound.
Fagradalsfjall
Was your cat walking on your keyboard again?
Or is it… EeeeeeEEEEEEEEEeeeEEEEEEeeEEEEeeeeeEEEEEEEEE
I remember how in The Matrix movies, humans blocked out the sun to stop the computers from taking over. Looks like we’re going to ask them whether or not that’s a good plan first in our timeline.
Great. Capitalism literally makes you stupid.
Still too spicy for human consumption. They’ve been waiting…