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September 03, 2004
Bass Will Kill You
Doctors are reporting that all those annoyingly loud bass speakers are hazardous to your health.
Blasting music can be hard on the ears and the neighbors, and now researchers say it can also pack enough punch to collapse a lung.....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.
Or it could be a result of one of us who dislike the feeling of the impending explosion of our brains caused by your stupid speakers dragging your sorry ass out of the car at a stoplight and stomping a mudhole in you.
I think further research may be required.
Posted by Rita at September 3, 2004 10:14 AM
Comments
Seems like natural selection at work to me.
Posted by: Craig at September 3, 2004 10:48 AM
I've always wondered whether they install a second alternator to power those damned speakers.
I'm with Craig though. If it's true, Darwin was right again.
Posted by: Andy at September 3, 2004 11:43 AM
Could you turn down the Snoop Dogg? My kidneys are starting to bleed.
Posted by: Keith at September 3, 2004 12:45 PM
OH -- for a minute, I thought it was about eating bass -- you know, the fish. Heh.
Posted by: david at September 4, 2004 08:54 AM
Several years ago there was a story circulating about a younger guy that had developed an arthymic heart condition that baffled his doctor. On one visit he left his jacket in the office and the doctor told the receptionist to catch him before he left the parking area. When she opened the door they could clearly hear the bass from his $60,000.00 dollar stereo system. The assumption was that the sound waves were interfering with his heart.
Posted by: Bill at September 4, 2004 11:14 AM