ClassicDrogn Wrote:I tracked that story down and read it... as described it's the opposite of what actually happens (I've read about people getting popped eardrums from noise canceling headsets because the energy in the air is actually higher, they essentially work by filling in the troughs in the waveform) but I'll say it again, no max capacity, figuring out where the heat goes is why samples were passed out, max btu per second.Well, it was written before people actually started doing sound-dampening... but we all know what handwavium is like when old SF is involved.
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