Tammy Duckworth FTW…

The Alex Murphy.

Holy shit, buddy. Yes. We flip a signal 180 degrees out of phase and that added pressure pushes the outside wave down. There is at no point a reduction of pressure in your ear, it’s just more pressure that makes it so you can’t hear the sound you are trying to remove. The perception of sound and air pressure are not the same thing.

If you had loudspeakers on the outside of your head, and passive attenuation in your ears, yes that would reduce pressure for you, but everyone else would have experience an increase. But adding more pressure in the cavity of your ear to reduce pressure makes very little sense.

If you blasted the sound outside of the headphones into the cabin it would decrease that for you and increase it for everyone else. But since you don’t walk around with two giant loudspeakers strapped to your passive noise canceling (isolation) headphones, yes the pressure is added to your ears and your ears only. You just can’t perceive it, outside of the headaches and fatigue over time…

You’d need the suit to allow you to “float” inside or it. Air gapped, and rubber suspension? Maybe some kind of a liquid, but it would probably just allow for more transference?

ANC isn’t protective in any way. If anything it’s probably just as damaging. It’s taking the outside signal and flipping it 180 (out of phase) and putting that in your ear to eliminate it.

Remote Audio isn’t fucking around. Those cans squeeze the shit out of your head to get that -45db, but they work very well.

Plus the need for there to be a physical match is also super crucial and hard to find. Leg/arm length, stride, etc. it’s one of the most beautifully cooperative sports out of necessity.

A reminder to all, Summer Paralympics are coming up. They’re gonna be awesome. The more folks that tune in and support, the better the games will be and the more security they’ll have.

If you’re unaware of the history, Netflix has a great doc called Rising Phoenix that gives a small glimpse into the complexity of obstacles the athletes face and the nature of competition in this world. Highly recommend.

Soft Bulletin By The Flaming Lips

Heaven and Earth by Kamasi Washington

I was way too young, grandmaw had to go to a matinee. Boy, she did love Arnold.

Technically, we were the first to make any Cannabis legislation, in 1619.

Only problem, it was to force folks to grow it.

Weird.

Seems the church was the first to ban it’s use in 1484, does papal law count? Not sure on Tony’s Sources.

Man, this is probably the best joke any Steve Harvey has made in a while.

Yeah, it felt like the clown man was the company in the first two panels, then it shifts to hacker, then the final few are just confusing. Poor clown man, so many internal conflicts.

Depth of field is also playing a huge role in the stock “nice” images.

This dude games.