No one has lasted more than 55 minutes in the quietest place on Earth

[TootsieFootsie]

MSN

No one has lasted more than 55 minutes in the quietest place on Earth​

Made of 3.3ft-thick fibreglass acoustic wedges and double walls of insulated steel and thick concrete, the room absorbs 99.99 per cent of sound.

The conditions within its Fort Knox-style walls are so intense that the longest amount of time anyone’s been able to endure in there is 55 minutes.

“We challenge people to sit in the chamber in the dark,” the lab’s founder Steven Orfield told Hearing Aid Know. “When it’s quiet, ears will adapt. The quieter the room, the more things you hear. You’ll hear your heart beating, sometimes you can hear your lungs, hear your stomach gurgling loudly.

“In the anechoic chamber, you become the sound."

 

[callmehenry]

MSN

No one has lasted more than 55 minutes in the quietest place on Earth​

Made of 3.3ft-thick fibreglass acoustic wedges and double walls of insulated steel and thick concrete, the room absorbs 99.99 per cent of sound.

The conditions within its Fort Knox-style walls are so intense that the longest amount of time anyone’s been able to endure in there is 55 minutes.

“We challenge people to sit in the chamber in the dark,” the lab’s founder Steven Orfield told Hearing Aid Know. “When it’s quiet, ears will adapt. The quieter the room, the more things you hear. You’ll hear your heart beating, sometimes you can hear your lungs, hear your stomach gurgling loudly.

“In the anechoic chamber, you become the sound."

This sounds like the stuff of nightmares tbh

 

[TootsieFootsie]

I like silence.
I get the feeling that I could last longer than an hour.