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Ear muffs aren’t going to do much against 160dB



to put a finer point on it: decibels are logarithmic, e.g. a tenfold increase.

as in, an increase of 10 decibels corresponds to a tenfold increase in sound intensity.

this means 160dB is a lot. a loooooooooooot




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