The World's loudest sound

The Coffee Shop
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Really amazing, hard to even wrap your head around it, but kinda cool to think about.

I love the line: This is so astonishingly loud, that it’s inching up against the limits of what we mean by “sound.”

http://nautil.us/blog/the-sound-so-loud-that-it-circled-the-earth-four-times

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I highly recommend Simon Winchester’s book on Krakatoa. He is a great writer of science / history books.
http://www.amazon.com/Krakatoa-World-Exploded-August-1883/dp/0060838590/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top

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I get Simon Winchester and William Manchester confused, in regards to

http://www.amazon.com/World-Lit-Only-Fire-Renaissance/dp/0316545562/
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You’ve never been to a middle school girls volleyball game…