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Julez writes "Hi, Found this on icLiverpool's site, thought you might find this interesting.... A bizarre experiment in soundless music has revealed how people's emotions are affected by noises they cannot hear..."
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..Like the sound of one hand clapping?
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Well, if our emotions are affected by what we cannot hear, maybe it's a blessing in disguise that my new car stereo got ripped off on Sunday (from the church parking lot during service, nonetheless, bastards.....)
Some physical affects were also experienced, including tingling in the back of the neck and a strange feeling in the stomach.
Is it just me, or do you get the feeling that the pre-concert banquet might've been contaminated with something?
"This food is problematic."
The Sound of Silence, indeed.
Yeah - this probably explains why my girlfriend's mood changes the same way whether I fart silently or not...
...when I feel the walls shake to the beat of some faraway b-boy with boom boom speakers filling up the back seat of their lame import I feel nothing but anger.
The meme police, They live inside of my head
Mr O'Keefe added: "When places affect people physically and they aren't able to explain it, they often attribute their feelings to being near a ghost."
And I would've gotten away with it, if it wasn't for you meddling kids!
Inanimate objects were also strangely affected by jumping off countertops, showing their incredible, pitiful anguish for the music's deep feelings. Buildings showed their emotion by creating cracks in their foundations, no doubt in sympathy for the bifircated feelings expressed in song.
And right in the middle of a Clarinet solo.... "Ppbpbpbppbpbt! ppt. pbbbpbt!" Piles and piles.... Everywhere....
changes your mood poll.
1) The Silent Fart
2) The Wife/Girlfirend
3) That sound you *know* Uncle Sam makes as he dips into your pocket
4) The sound of your carrer flushing down the bowl post bubble.
5) The sound of my Karma flushing down the bowl after this post.
6)Cowbow Neal's Silent Farts
if you are looking to get rid of the silent treatment, try the following:
"Oh, the silent treatment? Good. Now I finally have some peace and quiet."
Guaranteed to put a loud and immediate stop to the silent treatment.
quite some time now. How many times have you actually read an OS-specific article and feel a strong urge to either back up comments promoting the stability or other "good" criteria of your OS of choice or lambast arguments mentioned by supporters of other OSs?
Almost every time? Heh, poor mortals... I bet you never view the source for the particular article now, didn't you? How else can you miss the <EMBED FILE="/sounds/brainwash/BSD_is_dead.wav" TYPE="sound/propaganda-OS_activism">.
Don't bother checking the pages now... I'm sure the Slashdot gods have now detected my blasphemous post and deleted such references accordingly.
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How people are effected by the sound of tectonic plates moving, or how people are effected by the sound made by giant crickets from Mars ( which might well be good to know come the invasion)
Are you ready to Ruuuuuuuuummmmmmmble?
It's certainly no secret that people are effected by really, really low bass notes. As the article itself notes church organs have been using this trick to spice up the "Glory Hallelujahs" for centuries.
The part that's interesting is that seems to be a mood *enhancer*, rather producing any specific effect, so if the power of the Lord is already moving you that organ is going to move you more.
Let's hear it for the Church and gut level empiricism.
Don't install one of these "sub-sub-woofers" if you have pissy neighbors though. It reminds of the Bill Cosby joke about cocaine:
"It enhances my personality"
"Yeah, but what if you're an asshole?"
KFG
But oddly, this (for whatever friggin' reason) reminded me of a deaf couple I once saw fighting. The guy got really angry and closed his eyes. The lady was SO FURIOUS that he wasn't "listening" to her that she tried to PRY the other guy's eyes open with her fingers! What I wouldn't have given to know what they were talking about!
(Am I a bastard for laughing HARDER b/c I knew that they couldn't hear me?)
"True story: 7 Hz is the resonant frequency of a chicken's skull cavity. This was determined empirically in Australia, where a new factory generating 7-Hz tones was located too close to a chicken ranch: When the factory started up, all the chickens died.
From Borland's Turbo C Reference Guide..."
The internet says it's true, and that's good enough for me.
Why bombard him with soundless music when we can bombard him with tasteless music. 24/7 of N-Sync should pound him into submission.
"She's a West Texas girl, just like me" - G.W Bush Iraqis
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Well, my favorite work of Johnny Cage was the uppercut when you were on the bridge as a finishing move--bam! A punch to the crotch, and you were lying on your back in 3 foot tall spikes. Now that's a sound you hear over and over.
We now have confirmed reports from an informed Orange County minister that Ethel is still an active communist.
I strongly suspect that those stupid Windows startup jingles have an infrasound component. Drives me NUTS every time I hear it...
That would also explain why they were so expensive.
I asked for a refund - and got my monkey back.
"Generally people found that they experienced more in depth versions of the emotions they were feeling before the infrasound began."
Surgeon General's Warning: Do not take Viagra while listening to infrasound.
There's only so much torture you can give before it becomes inhumane..
I'm fairly sure N'Sync for more than 5 minutes is cruel and unusual punishment.
Tortured like that for 10 minutes, he'd probably die of an internal hemorrhage, or give up the locations of every missile in the country, and give you his 67 wives.
(don't get optimistic. Only two if the wives are remotely cute)
Serious? Seriousness is well above my pay grade.
We used to have a borrowed sine wave generator to play with when we were kids. It initially seemed to be doing something, but as we couldn't hear anything, we decided to find out if it was actually working. We brought in the normally lazy cat, and cranked up the generator...the cat exited at high speed. I'm sure there were emotions related to that experiment, but beyond our reaction of laughter, the cat was not in any mood to provide details.
I seem to recall that elephants communicate using low frequency waves. I wonder what any elephants that might have been within range thought of the crap they were hearing.
Probably that those darned whales never shut up.
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.
"We got chick brains -- in vitro -- to dump 80 percent of the natural opioids in their brains,'"
Aw, man! I've been tryin to get chicks to dump their brain opioids for all this time without infrasound!
I don't know what that means, but it sure sounds pimpin.