And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth: And there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake. <\/i><\/p>\n
\u2014Rev. 8:5<\/i><\/p>\n
4446<\/b> The Decibel<\/b><\/p>\n
Since 1950 the noise level in the United States alone has doubled every ten years. <\/p>\n
A decibel is an arbitrary unit based on the faintest sound that a man can hear. The scale is logarithmic, so that an increase of 10 db means a tenfold increase in sound intensity; a 20-db rise a hundredfold increase, and 30 db a thousandfold increase. <\/p>\n
4447<\/b> Some Decibel Ratings<\/b><\/p>\n
The rustle of leaves has a decibel rating of 20. Conversational speech a decibel rating of 60. Now at the decibel range of 85 if it is prolonged, hearing damage can occur. A jet airliner 500 ft. overhead has a decibel rating of 115. And coincidentally, rock music with amplifiers is rated at 120 decibels which is also the noise level of human pain threshold. <\/p>\n
4448<\/b> No. 1 Japanese concern: Noise<\/b><\/p>\n
Despite Japan\u2019s tolerance of its annual quota of 30 typhoons, smog, recessions and congestions, there is one thing they cannot stand: noise. Rated among the top three major public concerns, noise pollution has sparked several court suits, shutdowns of various noisy factories and airports. Cause: headaches, frayed nerves and insomnia for nearly half the population. <\/p>\n
4449<\/b> Birds Scream Like Women In Pain<\/b><\/p>\n
Ista, Calif. (UPI)\u2014Richard Ferguson\u2019s peacocks \u201cscreamed like a woman in pain,\u201d his roosters crowed endlessly and the combined racket outside his neighbor\u2019s bedroom forced her into the living room before she could sleep. <\/p>\n
\u201cThey made noise all the time,\u201d Mrs. Eleanor Suedmeyer complained to a municipal court jury. \u201cThe peacocks screamed like a woman in pain and a good night\u2019s sleep was impossible.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ferguson is charged with disturbing the peace with his birds, but contends his home is in a rural zone in which residents are permitted to keep fowls, horses and other animals. <\/p>\n
\u201cIf the case goes against me, I\u2019ll go to jail,\u201d said Ferguson, who faces a 500 U. S. dollar fine and six months in jail. \u201cI will not pay the fine.\u201d<\/p>\n
4450<\/b> Pentecostal Building To Be Soundproofed<\/b><\/p>\n
During a week of \u201crevival\u201d meetings at the seventy-five-member Southwest United Pentecostal Church in the Houston suburb of Missouri City, two policemen entered the church and asked the congregation to be quieter. They said the church\u2019s next-door neighbor, Wayne Cousins, was complaining about loud noise. Legal charges would be filed, they warned, if the singing, shouting, and instrumental music were not muted somewhat. <\/p>\n
The warning apparently went unheeded. A complaint was filed the next day, a jury of six found the congregation guilty of disorderly conduct, and Municipal Judge Richard A. Mayhan levied a $50 fine. Pastor Edward A. Fruge, claiming the meeting was \u201ca regular Pentecostal service,\u201d says the church will appeal. A new soundproof building will be constructed later this year, he adds. <\/p>\n
\u2014Christianity Today<\/i><\/p>\n
4451<\/b> IRS And Electronic Smog<\/b><\/p>\n
The Internal Revenue Service opened a new computer complex in Louisiana; part of the brain\u2019s memory suddenly went blank. Puzzled IRS officials eventually learned why. The center had been built under a flight path to the New Orleans airport, and radar signals from the field had erased tax records that had been freshly stored on the computer\u2019s magnetic tape. <\/p>\n
In the middle of the night, electrically-controlled garage doors in a number of Western states suddenly begin to open and close. At Houston Manned Spacecraft Center, an outburst of strange signals starts disrupting communications with an orbiting Gemini spaceship. High above the Gulf of Mexico, the navigational gear of a jetliner bound for Miami mysteriously indicates that the plane is on a course for Cuba. <\/p>\n
One major cause of the electromagnetic smog is the increasingly intensive competition for the use of available radio frequencies. In 1949, there were 160,000 radio transmitters of all kinds operating in the U. S. Now there are more than 6,000,000, and the number will doubtless continue to rise. In the not-too-distant future, the entire world may become what RCA President Robert W. Sarnoff recently described as a huge \u201celectronic, whispering gallery.\u201d<\/p>\n
As ever larger numbers of electronic gadgets come into use, they increasingly crowd the atmosphere\u2014and space above\u2014with an invisible pollutant: stray, mischief-making radio waves. <\/p>\n
The source of such electromagnetic interference may be almost any piece of electrical equipment: fluorescent lights, the ignition system of a car, or even a seemingly innocuous transistor radio. And with so many sources, the interference is becoming more and more exasperating. <\/p>\n
\u2014Selected<\/p>\n
4452<\/b> Anti-Noise Plan For Jetliners<\/b><\/p>\n
Secretary of Transportation William Coleman revealed a program to force jetliners to reduce noise by 30 percent, saying that their present noise was an unacceptable intrusion in the lives of some 6 million Americans. <\/p>\n
The cost of carrying out the program, through modifying or replacing existing planes, is estimated at nearly $8 billion. Virtually all of the 2,000 planes in the U. S. commercial fleet would be affected. <\/p>\n
4453<\/b> British Bishop Against Concorde <\/b><\/p>\n
One of the most eloquent witnesses at the U. S. government hearing on the Supersonic Concorde airliner was British bishop Hugh Montifore of Kingstonupon, Thames. The bishop, who lives near London\u2019s Heathrow airport (where the Concorde has landed frequently), advised American transportation officials not to grant landing fights to the Concorde. <\/p>\n
\u201cConcorde\u2019s noise,\u201d he said, \u201ccan be unbearable, above the threshold of pain \u2026 It is not hell, because hell goes on forever. It is more like a secular form of pergatory.\u201d He expressed hope that the U. S. would ban the Concorde out of a \u201csense of obligation to your oldest allies.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Selected<\/p>\n
4454<\/b> Most Powerful Sound System<\/b><\/p>\n
The world\u2019s most powerful sound system is that installed at the Ontario Motor Speedway, California. It has an output of 30,800 watts connectable to 355 home-speaker assemblies and thus able to communicate the spoken word to 230,000 people above the noise of 50 screaming racing cars. <\/p>\n
4455<\/b> New Weapon: \u201cSmart Noise\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n
Once it was sufficient to jam an enemy\u2019s radar with a blanket of \u201cnoise.\u201d Now, that is no longer enough. The goal now is \u201csmart noise\u201d\u2014jamming equipment sophisticated enough to find and jam a specific frequency and to follow the enemy radar as it jumps from one frequency to another. <\/p>\n
4456<\/b> Fiddling The Bridge<\/b><\/p>\n
When the first iron bridge was built in Colebrook Dale, England, it is said a fiddler came along and threatened to \u201cfiddle the bridge down.\u201d The workmen laughingly bade him \u201cfiddle away.\u201d<\/p>\n
He tried note after note on his instrument until he hit upon one that coincided with the structure\u2019s vibratory movement, and as he sounded that note with prolonged effort, the structure began to quiver so perceptibly, that the workmen begged him to stop lest the half-completed bridge should fall. <\/p>\n
4457<\/b> Every City Has A Voice<\/b><\/p>\n
High above a city, the medley of street noises is blended into one overall note, sound, or murmur. For instance, we are told that the overall note of Chicago is bass; of London it is baritone; and that of New York is tenor. <\/p>\n
4458<\/b> Foot Tapping Distracts Conductor<\/b><\/p>\n
One day when Hans Richter was conducting at a concert, a man in the front row of the audience persisted in tapping his foot. The conductor endured this for some little time and then turned to the audience and fixed the offender with a steely eye. <\/p>\n
\u201cI am sorry to trouble you,\u201d said Richter icily, \u201cbut I cannot always keep time with your foot.\u201d<\/p>\n
4459<\/b> Praying As Unusual Noise? <\/b><\/p>\n
An officer once complained to General Stonewall Jackson that some soldiers were making a noise in their tent. \u201cWhat are they doing?\u201d asked the General. \u201cThey are praying now, but they have been singing,\u201d was the reply. \u201cAnd is that a crime?\u201d the General demanded. \u201cThe articles of war orders punishment for an unusual noise,\u201d was the reply. \u201cGod forbid that praying should be an unusual noise in the camp,\u201d replied General Jackson. <\/p>\n
\u2014Wesleyan Methodist<\/i><\/p>\n
4460<\/b> Epigram On Pollution (Noise)<\/b><\/p>\n
\u2022 The young man who kept moving about in the rear of the courtroom, lifting chairs and looking under desks, finally caused a frown to cloud the judge\u2019s face. Looking up and at the disturber, Judge Elbert Henry Gary of Chicago, later head of the United States Steel Corporation, called out, \u201cYoung man, you are making a great deal of unnecessary noise. What are you about?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYour honor,\u201d replied the young man, \u201cI have lost my overcoat, and am trying to find it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWell,\u201d mused the venerable jurist, \u201cpeople often lose whole suits in here without making all that disturbance.\u201d<\/p>\n
See also:<\/b> Music, Modern ; Silence ; Talking. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth: And there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake. \u2014Rev. 8:5 4446 The Decibel Since 1950 the noise level in the United States alone has doubled every ten years. A decibel is an … Continue reading “POLLUTION, NOISE”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}