It’s due to restaurants and sports bars being closed. The gradual increase of eating nachos or hummus at home will eventually bring the background noise back up to its normal rumble.
@therealjrn@Thumperchick actually they are all packaged sitting in my office at work right now. Once I can get back into my office they will go out USPS assuming the zombies don’t come.
I can believe it - I’ve watched the seismograph at Berkeley, which is about 3 miles from the I-80 corridor (one of the ten busiest highways in the US), and there was always a background vibration recorded that the techs said was from the freeway traffic.
@unksol for you and me, nothing. For those who study this stuff, it gives them an opportunity. Kind of establishes a better baseline or creates a control group, they can then use in scientific studies to compare “findings” for degree of effect. I understand after 9/11 those who study the sky (jet stream/air movement/contrails impacts) had a similar opportunity. Probably not perfect (grocery store trucks still are moving) but a good data point.
@unksol agreed, I was reading your response literally/thought others might find it interesting why scientists want even the human noise out of their baseline. Minute noise, and even still there now, but it does have an effect. More because the equipment sensitivity than the noise’s real effect.
I live about 1/2 a mile from a major highway and I’ve noticed that the typically ever-present white-noise it generates has disappeared.
It’s nice.
It’s due to restaurants and sports bars being closed. The gradual increase of eating nachos or hummus at home will eventually bring the background noise back up to its normal rumble.
Same thing for greenhouse gases.
Well less traffic so one can only assume
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Yeah. And no shipping trucks with trophies in them amirite @tHumperchick?
@therealjrn @Thumperchick actually they are all packaged sitting in my office at work right now. Once I can get back into my office they will go out USPS assuming the zombies don’t come.
I can believe it - I’ve watched the seismograph at Berkeley, which is about 3 miles from the I-80 corridor (one of the ten busiest highways in the US), and there was always a background vibration recorded that the techs said was from the freeway traffic.
Yes there is background noise in major cities. Yes it would reduce. Who cares and it means nothing.
@unksol for you and me, nothing. For those who study this stuff, it gives them an opportunity. Kind of establishes a better baseline or creates a control group, they can then use in scientific studies to compare “findings” for degree of effect. I understand after 9/11 those who study the sky (jet stream/air movement/contrails impacts) had a similar opportunity. Probably not perfect (grocery store trucks still are moving) but a good data point.
@mollama potentially it would help set up hysterics for scientific study but human “noise” is nothing next to a plate shift
There’s a reason it’s just noise in context
@unksol agreed, I was reading your response literally/thought others might find it interesting why scientists want even the human noise out of their baseline. Minute noise, and even still there now, but it does have an effect. More because the equipment sensitivity than the noise’s real effect.
You know what’s coming next. Someone will “calculate” some harm reduction from all this and we’ll get some new regulation like forced carpooling.
@ybmuG If emissions and traffic jams didn’t do it, “seismic noise” isn’t going to do it.
I think it’s just one of those “neat, scientists” things.