Current Events > What do you think would happen if everyone in the world agreed to make no noise?

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For 5 seconds. I understand logistics suggest this would be a certain impossibility. Not only that, but for no one to sneeze or cough in that short time span is just impossible.

Let's not let that ruin it though. Instead let's pretend that somehow we as a species were able to coordinate such an event which would occur with no issues impeding it's success and we were able to create complete silence across the entire planet for 5 seconds.

Do you think that would effect the world in anyway? If so, how? Would it freak animals out? Would the silence be deafening and piercing? I feel like life would be different afterward. We'd become celestial beings of supreme knowledge, able to manifest the solution to any problem and to evaporate any and all dangers or threats to our way of life.

Like no manmade machine noise and talking or are you talking about literally no sound, so also no wind or whatever?

That edible is hitting hard eh

I dont know but this summer is A Quiet Place 3. This topic made me think of it. It's going to be set in New York City, one of the noisiest cities on earth. Imagine Times Square quiet. It would be like that but everywhere.

TimeForAction posted...

That edible is hitting hard eh

Hehe!

Zwijn posted...

Like no manmade machine noise and talking or are you talking about literally no sound, so also no wind or whatever?

Why not both?

The answer though is I was just suggestion no manmade machine noise and talking. Animals and nature would still contribute their normal sounds.

It is interesting though to consider not just no manmade machine or talking noise, but to consider a world where there was completely no sound from any source. Hell, even if that happened for 1 second I think it would drive some people criminally insane.

TimeForAction posted...

That edible is hitting hard eh

Oh buddy, if you only knew lol

CellBlock7 posted...

Why not both?

The answer though is I was just suggestion no manmade machine noise and talking. Animals and nature would still contribute their normal sounds.

It is interesting though to consider not just no manmade machine or talking noise, but to consider a world where there was completely no sound from any source. Hell, even if that happened for 1 second I think it would drive some people criminally insane.

If its just no machine noise and talking I dont think anything would happen at all. I dont think a significant number of people have constantly heard those noises. If its no noise at all I think the entire planet would freak out.

It would be quite unsettling for a large chunk of people. Aside from the most rural areas in the world, it's rare for most people to know what silence actually sounds like.

what if every person in the world agreed to all make a certain noise all at once

JimmyFraska posted...

what if every person in the world agreed to all make a certain noise all at once

What if everyone farted for 5 seconds?

Unless we cut all power grids some of us would still electricity running through the wires.

It would probably be really quiet for five seconds.

I read somewhere that if someone is truly in a setting where there are no sounds whatsoever, they start to hear their organs.
No clue if it's true tho :V

Turbam posted...

I read somewhere that if someone is truly in a setting where there are no sounds whatsoever, they start to hear their organs.
No clue if it's true tho :V

Probably I already sometimes hear my heart and gut.

What's trippy is I've been high off something and could feel my organs.

Turbam posted...

I read somewhere that if someone is truly in a setting where there are no sounds whatsoever, they start to hear their organs.
No clue if it's true tho :V

Quote about the "World's Quietest Room" at Microsoft's HQ:

"A person starts hearing their own heartbeat in a short span of time. A while later, they can even hear their blood rushing and bones crunching. The anechoic chamber's purpose is to exclude all outside noise so that one may focus solely on the sounds produced by their own body."

https://www.ndtv.com/feature/microsoft-headquarters-in-us-houses-the-worlds-quietest-room-3756698

Might not be the same if you were just out in the world with no outside noise being generated though.

I think you're vastly overestimating how much noise is being made and how far that noise reaches.

GranQroppoop posted...

"A person starts hearing their own heartbeat in a short span of time. A while later, they can even hear their blood rushing and bones crunching. The anechoic chamber's purpose is to exclude all outside noise so that one may focus solely on the sounds produced by their own body."

You can already hear that stuff if you just listen. I guess they mean it's to a greater degree?

Guide posted...

You can already hear that stuff if you just listen. I guess they mean it's to a greater degree?

Those sounds are too faint to hear in most locations, they get drowned out by ambient noise.