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Adavis72 t1_j9a4d4v wrote

Reply to comment by Bokbreath in ‘We found the Artemis-I noise level at 5 km had a crackling quality about 40 million times greater than a bowl of Rice Krispies.’ — Maximum noise measured during Artemis-I launch on 16 Nov. 2022 was higher than predicted by marketrent

How many bowls of cereal is a jackhammer when heard at 100ft?

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aecarol1 t1_j9aijaf wrote

You can't ask that kind of question without understanding the physics behind standardized measurements. What is the viscosity of the milk? i.e. whole milk or 2%? What is the relative humidity? Are the bowls glass or plastic?

The Cereal Experimentation Regulation Normalization board (CERN) has spent literally billons of dollars to analyze and study the sounds cereal makes and to standardize noise comparisons. At their cereal study facility in Switzerland they collide Rice Krispies at neatly the speed of light to calculate the noise they make.

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Igagug t1_j9avp49 wrote

Don't forget to include how many football fields the width of the bowl is.

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AntonOlsen t1_j9b66z4 wrote

My favorite cereal bowl is about 1/8 of a washing machine wide and holds enough to cover a football field with a micrometer of milk.

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BitPoet t1_j9bw6v1 wrote

You're looking at about a decismoot, not football fields.

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freds_got_slacks t1_j9bbn6t wrote

you joke, but NIST probably has a standard 'rice cereal' somewhere in their catalogue for testing

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Masterjts t1_j9bn0jb wrote

Are we gatekeeping sound questions now... this is ... cereal... errr... i mean surreal.

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Fishermans_Worf t1_j9cyik8 wrote

There's a simple formula for that. All weird units but it works out.

C=(3E/L)^O/D

C=Number of bowls

E=Height of the Empire State Building in smoots.

L=Information content of the Library of Congress in HD floppy discs

O=Orbital radius of Luna in yards

D=Distance to cereal in attoparsecs

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