Probably bad for your hearing too (piefedimages.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com)
 

For reference, the loudest sound ever on earth was 180dB https://wikipedia.org/wiki/1883_eruption_of_Krakatoa

Fun fact. Adam West Batman has an audio communicator capable of producing "20,000 decibles', while this is only used to scare off a tiger, this would realistically be powerful enough to create a black hole and destroy the universe
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[–] 28 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Wonder if they got hertz and decibels confused when they were writing that.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    So Batman was trying to annoy the tiger away? I think more likely the schlock tv 60s kids show writers just had no idea what they were talking about

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Why wouldn't they have just googled it?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Alternatively they knew exactly what they meant.

    This was their version of 2 people typing to fight off a hacker. I would not be surprised to hear that Adam West created a GUI interface in Visual Basic to track an IP address.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Wouldn't that be a bit low? I haven't seen the show but I assume its something humans can't hear but tigers can. Although it is much more reasonable than the insane 20000 db they claim.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Human hearing ranges from approximately 20 hz through 20,000 hz

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearing_range

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Approximately. It differs a lot and the upper limit goes down with age. It also depends on loudness. I could hear up to around 16 kHz in my early twenties. I doubt many adults would hear 20 kHz, unless it was very, very loud.

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