The anechoic chamber at Orfield Laboratories is a room that is 99.99% sound absorbent! The room is so quiet that the lack of sound or noise is almost unbearable after a short period of time. The longest time that a person has lasted in there was 45 minutes. When your ears can't hear anything anymore, they start to try and listen for anything and that makes them hear your own heartbeat at an extremely loud volume. And this can cause people to hallucinate. I think that this room is really interesting because of the amount of sound absorption. Companies can even test how loud their products actually are in there without fear of outside noise interference. Sterios, speakers, amplifiers, and vocals; for example. Also, NASA can train astronaughts in there to get them ready for the silence of space. Amazing!
Thornhill, Ted. "We all crave it, but can you stand the silence?." Daily Mail. Daily Mail, 08 Apr 2012. Web. 15 May 2012.
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