Pneumothorax - Bass can kill you!

 

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Username: Djbeanpole

Post Number: 15
Registered: Nov-05
When my dad heard me talking about buying some new subs, he thought he would scare me out of it by sharing some information with me about something called pneumothorax. Being a lung doctor he thought it was hot stuff. I thought it was interesting. Not trying to stop anyone from buying subs...

Noppen said he and his colleagues suspect that loud music may damage the lungs due to its booming bass frequency, which can be felt as a vibration going through the body. The lungs may essentially start to vibrate in the same frequency as the bass, which could cause a lung to rupture.

http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,64829,00.html
 

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Username: Chaunb3400

Huntsville, Alabama U.S.

Post Number: 2074
Registered: Jul-05
check

https://www.ecoustics.com/electronics/forum/car-audio/178080.html
 

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Username: Geekbike

Post Number: 391
Registered: Dec-04
I don't think many people play sub-8hz frequencies at +170db.

http://www.lancs.ac.uk/depts/physics/vibrations/vib12.htm

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=9 593207&dopt=Abstract

http://asb-biomech.org/onlineabs/abstracts97/40/

http://www.forteantimes.com/articles/153_sonicweapons.shtml

And if you think about it, if a lung was punctured inside your body with no puncture to the skin, fluid would be sucked into the lungs due to the pressure differences. You'd drown long before you died of Pneumothorax.

Also, if you look at at the statistics, pneumothorax is not all that rare. It spontaneously happens to 7.4 in 100,000 people. Compare that to the 1 in 4 people will go to a concert every year and you'll see it's not suprising.

http://www.emedicine.com/EMERG/topic470.htm

http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/0/935a3267cf3d1f30ca256dea0005395d?OpenDocument
 

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