「靜到癲」密室 極限捱45分鐘 99.99％靜音 待久令人生幻覺

在煩囂都市生活的人，常想渴望有寧靜空間，但原來若待在全球最靜的密室中，感覺並不好受，更會出現幻覺，人類最高極限為僅能在這密室中捱過45分鐘。

美國南明尼阿波利斯有一間獲健力士世界紀錄評為全球最靜的密室，以3.3呎厚的玻璃纖維吸音楔、雙層隔音鋼板和1呎厚石屎製成，能99.99%靜音，待久了會產生幻覺，最高紀錄是有人能在密室捱45分鐘。

聽到心跳肺起伏胃發響

研發人奧菲爾德（Steven Orfield）表示：「我們邀請挑戰者坐在黑暗的密室中……當一切寂靜一片時，耳朵會適應環境，當周遭環境愈靜，你能聽到的愈多。你會聽到自己的心跳， 有時你還能聽到肺部的起伏和胃部的響聲。在密室中，你是一切聲響的來源。」奧菲爾德稱，這是一個很迷失的經驗，使人倉皇失措，必須坐下才能捱過。
可訓練太空人集中力
這間最靜密室用途多多，除了能讓商戶測試產品聲效和音量外，還可讓美國太空總署的太空人在密室中訓練他們的集中力。

This morning, we're talking about noise pollution and the negative health affects it can cause. In Minneapolis' Seward neighborhood, you can find the world's quietest room.
The room, which holds the Guinness World Record designation, is located in the Orfield Laboratories. The recording studios where "Funkytown" and Bob Dylan's "Blood on the Tracks" were recorded are also in this building.
The world's quietest room is called an anechoic chamber, which means there is no echo as it absorbs sound. Sound doesn't bounce off the walls the way it does in a regular room.
A typical quiet room you sleep in at night measures about 30 decibels. A normal conversation is about 60 decibels. This room has been measured at -9 decibels.
Orfield Labs uses the room to test products, including switches that go on car dashboards and the sound an LED display makes on a cell phone to make sure they're not too loud.
To get into the anechoic chamber, you go through two bank vault-like doors. The floor in the room is mesh like a trampoline so there's nothing on the floor for the sound to bounce off of. The walls are lined with sound-proofing wedges that are a meter long so they absorb the sound.
"When you sit in any rooms a person normally sits in, you hear the sound and all its reflections," said Steven Orfield, president of Orfield Labs. "When you go into an anechoic chamber, there are zero reflections. So if you listen to me talk and hear my voice, you're hearing my voice exactly. And if I turn around and talk, the only thing you'll hear is the sound bending around my head."

人工病毒: 三病毒齊發惡 流感再奪7命

【經濟日報專訊】今年甲流、乙流同時活躍的流感高峰至4月仍罕見未止，過去一周再奪7人命，最年輕僅44歲，而專攻幼童的呼吸道合胞病毒（RSV）加入「戰團」，上月底數量大升44%，出現三病毒齊發惡的情況。

有私家兒科醫生指近兩月都有幼兒病人染RSV入院，高燒不退須留醫4至5日。

衞生防護中心表示，本港整體流感活躍程度仍處於高水平。中心實驗室的病毒分離數字顯示，之前以乙型流感為主導的流感高峰，近期轉變為甲型H3流感病毒與乙流病毒平分秋色的景況。

上月截至31日的最後一周，中心實驗室共錄得460株流感病毒，其中甲型H3流感佔236株，乙流則有218株，分別佔51%和47%。

上周死亡個案 最年輕僅44歲

流感數字持續高企，本港自1月13日至今，已錄得106宗因流感而入住公院深切治療部或死亡個案，當中61宗死亡，包括過去一周最新7宗死亡個案，分別為2男5女，年紀最輕44歲，最大為94歲。

伊利沙伯醫院急症室主管何曉輝指，本港今年流感高峰仍未見減退迹象，為近年少見，「過往好少4月頭仍是流感高峰」，致急症室求診人數近月持續迫爆，該院每日求診人數達600人次，較以往平日530至540多逾1成。

青山醫院一個成人精神科女病房自3月20日起，先後有8名年齡介乎22至50歲的女病人出現呼吸道感染徵狀，其中7人確診感染乙型流感，病人正隔離治療，情況穩定。

RSV病毒檢測 較上月初增44%

甲、乙型流感病毒雙重夾擊下，與此同時，專襲幼兒的RSV亦來襲。上月截至31日的最後一周，衞生防護中心共檢測到140個RSV病毒，較月初97個，大增44%（見表）。

兒科專科醫生周振軍指，過去兩月均有幼童因RSV和流感入院，上月有3名幼童感染RSV，包括兩名一歲多的幼兒，因咳嗽、氣促及高燒不退需入住私家醫院治療，均住院4至5日，另1名個多月大嬰兒，病情較輕，只需觀察毋須入院。

另外，他上月亦有5名兒童病人因流感要入院，其中2人感染甲流，3人感染乙流。周說，2月和3月，兒童因RSV和流感而要入院的人數相若，估計未來數周，人數會持續，「都會是病毒感染多於細菌感染」。

德克薩斯州的龍捲風爆發出現HAARP的特徵

Texas Tornado Outbreak Illustrates HAARP Signatures

Nicholas West
Activist Post

It is indisputable that weather weapons have been considered as a means for agricultural and societal control.  Elite grand master, Zbigniew Brzezinski, stated in his book Between Two Ages (1970) that "Technology of weather modification could be employed to produce prolonged periods of drought or storm." (Source)  Moreover, it is a stated military goal to "Own the Weather by 2025."

This HAARP facility and its substations scattered throughout the U.S. have been tracked by intrepid weather researcher Dutchsinse who has made some startlingly accurate predictions based on the tell-tale radar flares of these facilities, already linked to earthquakes in the area of the New Madrid seismic zone.

Beyond earthquakes, however, there is an increasing body of evidence to suggest that the injection of frequencies into storm systems can prolong, or intensify their output. The massive system that moved through the Dallas area yesterday seems to bear the signatures of a similar frequency injection that Dutchsinse has used to predict previous tornado outbreaks.  The patterns show up as HAARP rings (circle sweeps) or scalar squares (square waves) which are pinpointed below.

Incidentally, I have two friends who live in the Dallas area and they observed very different cloud behavior than previous tornadic systems. Whether or not HAARP is to blame in this instance, the manipulation of earth's ionosphere should not go without further open-minded study.

如果我們發現外星人，我們的接觸協議會是怎樣的？

If We Discover Aliens, What’s Our Protocol for Making Contact?

Natalie Wolchover
    livescience

It is conceivable that humans could someday discover aliens. We scour the cosmos looking for their radio signals, and though we’re not capable of interstellar space travel, it is remotely possible that we could find what we’re looking for right here in our solar system.

Life could theoretically exist on Mars, or on Europa, a moon of Jupiter, which appears to have an underground ocean. It’s even possible (though highly unlikely) that these nearby life forms could be sentient. “It is consistent with current human exploration of the solar system that intelligent beings could have evolved in the deep oceans of Europa,” said Jacob Haqq-Misra, an astronomer at Pennsylvania State University.

Another possibility, Haqq-Misra said, is that “intelligent extraterrestrial beings have traveled from a distant star system and taken up residence in the solar system. They might be living in an underground base on Mars or the moon, or they could be residing in the asteroid belt (or any number of other plausible, albeit unlikely, options).”

澳洲墨爾本出現兩隻快速UFO

Two fast UFOs caught on tape over Melbourne, Australia 2-Apr-2012

UFO sightings - These two fastwalkers were recorded flying across the sky above Melbourne, the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria on 2nd April 2012.