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Land Art Park Significantly Reduces Jet Engine Noise Near Airport
ClockEndGooner writes: A study conducted by the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research found that low frequency and long wavelength jet engine droning noise was significantly reduced in the fall after farmers plowed their fields near Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport. The remaining furrows "had multiple ridges to absorb the sound waves, deflected the sound and muted the noise." This led to the development of the Buitenschot Land Art Park, a buffer park featuring "land art" that has significantly reduced aircraft noise without requiring cuts in the number of allowed flights in and out of the airport. The land art park has also provided neighbors with additional recreational paths and sports fields in the same space.
maybe you should submit a story then, instead of writing off-topic comments
Until the Slashdot staff grows some balls and allows the story through, writing off-topic posts is the best we'll get.
It took the readers revolting over the Slashdot beta and making the comment sections unusable for the /. editors to descend from on high and even deign to address the complaints. Maybe something similar needs to happen here. Those with mod points (unfortunately I don't now) should at least mod up these posts, which reference a story that the readers here are obviously interested in but which /. finds embarrassing to their parent company.
How can we continue to believe in a just universe and freedom to eat crackers if we have no ale?
Stories about that have been getting submitted over and over again since at least yesterday. Dice (which owns both Sourceforge and Slashdot) is suppressing them.
Perhaps. Another reason is that it is not news worthy, or not even true. I notice that neither you, nor the original AC, provide any external links, or any other information to substantiate your assertions. Why should anyone believe you?