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Re:A noise two percent of people can hear by lisper on Friday July 19, 2019 @10:27AM (#20478908)
The obvious question that no one seems to have asked nor answered: can a microphone detect this sound?
Re:A noise two percent of people can hear by wyldfire on Friday July 19, 2019 @10:43AM (#20479045)
The linked-to documentary ("Doom Vibrations") shows Kohlhase armed with a microphone and a spectrograph.

My personal belief is that these kinds of news articles happens when you mix together (1) some legitimate phenomenon for which it's difficult to measure (or not obvious what physical dimensions to measure) with (2) nutcases who love mysteries/conspiracies. Maybe they or people they know are really suffering as a result of some external stimulus and we don't have a good way to diagnose or treat them (or identify the stimulus). That's a tragedy and it would be great if someone could pursue it and identify it. But they're clearly nuts and we shouldn't entertain their speculation until/unless they can show objective evidence.

Re:A noise two percent of people can hear by ianai on Friday July 19, 2019 @10:47AM (#20479078)
He’s clearly trying to quantify it with many different measurements in the video. Shoes his dog reacting to something, vibrations in water, etc.
Re:A noise two percent of people can hear by wyldfire on Friday July 19, 2019 @12:24PM (#20479979)
His dog's "reaction" is all based on his conjecture that its behavior is due to the same phenomenon that he describes hearing. Same with the water.

There's no evidence presented that links the waves with the sound he claims to hear or his claims that the dog's behavior is abnormal. But part of the problem there is that the filmmaker is choosing to strike (IMO) a very mysterious tone with the editing and score. If we wanted to be non-nutcases, we'd cut to the MD PhD human audiology expert or the physicist or someone who would be able to substantiate or refute the claims.

"Yes, I've sampled all kinds of places and this low frequency band is not normally so powerful."

"Yes, some humans can hear this band. We did a controlled test with the subject and he had abnormally good response at the low frequency range."

We didn't see anything of the sort. So either the filmmaker decided not to consult experts, decided to put that towards the end (), or consulted them and they refuted the claims.

() I'm not patient enough to get past the video where the nutcases debate the priorities while exploring the wilderness.

Re:A noise two percent of people can hear by gnulinux on Friday July 19, 2019 @10:32AM (#20478946)
I was wondering this as I was reading the article. As a layman, seems like a very obvious question and I'm not sure why it's not explored in the article. Could an expert explain why?
Re:A noise two percent of people can hear by slowmovintarget on Friday July 19, 2019 @11:33AM (#20479459)
Yes. There are recordings of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPDILKQjJW8

(You'll need good headphones.)

Re:A noise two percent of people can hear by droithomme on Friday July 19, 2019 @12:49PM (#20480287)
Could definitely hear that!
Re:A noise two percent of people can hear by marsrover on Friday July 19, 2019 @10:34AM (#20478966)
I haven't watched the video but it looks like they might touch on that.
Re:A noise two percent of people can hear by sleepysysadmin on Friday July 19, 2019 @12:14PM (#20479869)
The governments have funded multiple studies on this. The answer is no.