The proposed limit is around the level of standing right next to a leaf blower.

That's fine. The occasional boom, assuming business success this time, will last a few seconds. Leaf blowers last for hours in some neighborhoods.

It's not the hearing damage, it's the psychological stress.

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foobarqux 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The initial boom is less than a second but it's like standing right next to the leafblower (not across the street) and is accompanied a lasting thundering-noise which is also extremely loud.

	▲	jauntywundrkind 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah, and it's entirely unexpected. Just, out of the blue, boom. A deep shaking sound wave blasts you. The people defending this don't seem to know what a sonic boom is like. Even if you diffuse it some, it's a ridiculous force. These are huge jets. This is going to be a new ambient disruption that makes every single day worse, filling the world with din, every day, for possibly billions of people. This is such a downgrade to the world. While the ultra-rich Tiphares style look down on the world.

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Rekindle8090 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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