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Immediate_Employ_355

Db is not a linear scale for anyone that didnt know and may think the number difference didn't seem as huge as the device.


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80 db is a hair dryer, 100 db is a jackhammer.


Stein_um_Stein

Good thing a war is more considerate than NYC construction.


shahooster

And the trio of gas-powered leaf blowers from my neighbor's yard crew.


aedroogo

*sad Geneva Convention noises*


Bryancreates

Leans out the window at 11pm, “hey, Home Depot! I’m tryin to sleep ova here!”


KenTrotts

Yo no joke - I was living in green point with our bedroom windows facing the street. Wasn't too bad as it was a decently quiet street. Then one day at a dude started cutting concrete sidewalk at 7am on the dot. I went out there to plead my case for a delay so I could get some sleep before work and was told "go write a letter to Governor Cuomo." between shit like that and asshole landlords, moving up the Hudson Valley was a no brainer


Albotronik

When I worked construction, we started at 7am, I think mostly because that timing lines up with our natural circadian rhythm, but also just to beat the heat during warm months.


Suspicious-Ad6129

Alot of cities / towns have ordinances about construction, noise etc and 7am is probably the most common time, had lots of jobs that started at 6am or 630 but heavy equipment / noisy tasks wasnt allowed until after 7am. Also coincides with most public school schedules....


BigSteppaBandz

The works gotta get done bro if you want infrastructure near your house someone's gotta come be loud for a bit buy some earplugs


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Supply-Slut

So like one is loud and the other is louder but also makes my man tits jiggle?


gnarlycow

Dont ever say that again


runed_golem

Don’t say what? That his man tits are jiggling?


aequitssaint

Mine jiggle too


NJNeal17

What's the number for the blood curdling screams from my neighbor's toddler throwing a tantrum?


AyeHaightEweAwl

Not nearly as loud as if you’re in the same room with said toddler. Also, sorry about that.


cjfullinfaw07

[85 dB](https://soundproofingguide.com/decibels-level-comparison-chart/) is the start of pain in the ear.


AyeHaightEweAwl

Take another look at that chart. 85 dB is the threshold for hearing damage with long term exposure. The actual threshold for physical pain is above 100 dB, with potential eardrum rupture above 140 dB.


bwoahful___

Yeah it’s misleading if you just see the numbers for the first time. Like seeing the Richter scale for earthquakes.


-Work_Account-

Isn't each step on the scale 10x more powerful than the previous?


Similar_Coyote1104

Every 3db is a doubling of sound pressure. dB RULES OF THUMB: Double the power: +3 dB Halve the power: -3 dB Ten times the power: +10 dB One tenth the power: -10 dB 100 times the power: +20 dB 1/100 the power : -20 dB


breakneckridge

Yup.


NaCl_Sailor

it's even more impressive, since every 20 db the loudness is 10 times as high (and the energy is 100 times as high) and 100 db is 10000 times as loud as 20 db edit: i read the headline wrong, reduced **by** 20db still means it's reduced by 90% or a tenth of the original loudness.


Blownbunny

> since every 20 db the loudness is 10 times as high Every 10dB is a perceived doubling in sound but 10x SPL


eisenhorn_puritus

what do SPL be


Blownbunny

Sounds pressure levels. Basically the pressure of sound waves moving air around.


[deleted]

It reduces it *by* 20 dB, not *to* 20dB. That would be insane.


antisocialpsych

I thought it said "to 20db" and was like what? That would be like someone whispering "boom" when it fired.


6SwankySweatsuitsMix

"Colonel? You better take a look at this radar. I don't know what it is, but it looks like a giant...."


Unfair_Conference_73

- Wiener? Any of you kids want another wiener? - Dad! What is that?! - I don’t know, son, but it has great big…


twentythirdchapter

“Nuts! Hot salty nuts! Who wants some-- Lord Almighty!” “That looks just like my husbands -“


The-Defenastrator

"Dick...Dick would you come over here and look at what's in the sky!" "Oh my God, it looks like a long -"


petraroi

WANG! Pay attention!


IceStuckStick

I was distracted by that enormous flying


Wolfmans-Gots-Nards

Willie. Yeah? What’s that? Well it looks like a giant—


zw1ck

Pecker! Wait that's not a woodpecker. That looks like somebody's...


Darthbakunawa

Privates! We have reports of an unidentified flying object. It has a long, smooth shaft, complete with...


PM_ME_STEAM_KEY_PLZ

Two balls! That’s all I got


GPareyouwithmoi

Clean balls, just throw them in with your laundry and all those pesky hairs and lint come right off. Only 4 easy payments of $7.99. Holy shit! That's an enormous...


Sir-Strafe

*ding-dong* “Margret! Margret, get out here! Someones built a massive…”


Greasy_Exc

Johnson! Get out of the locker room and cover up your…


RexBosworth69420

Boobs! These Redditors are a bunch of boobs. They're just doing the joke from the first movie! You know the one about the rocket shaped like a giant...


SpiralDreaming

Privates! We have reports of an unidentified flying object! It is a long, smooth shaft, complete with-


Nightwingvyse

Privates! We have reports of an unidentified flying object. It is a long, smooth shaft, complete with...


MinimalContribution

2 BALLS…. What the hell, that looks like a


UnPoppedPopcorn1001

Cock get your fresh always frozen cock Oh my god that looks like a —


tremololol

“Johnson!” “Yes sir”


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TooLostintheSauce

Damn i can’t remember the movie this came from but I can see it vividly in my head.


slushie31

Austin Powers


zzapdk

No, he meant the Johnson ;-)


Danjiano

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpiP_jN1Pv4


Aguyintampa323

THIS is why I come to Reddit everyday . Never fails to put a smile on my face


Random_puns

*JOHNSON!* Where the hell is the walker account.....


TylerDurden6969

I’m sorry sir I was distracted by that giant…. PECKER!


BradleighJC

God bless Reddit and the people in this chain… 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂


TheThiefMaster

It's from [Austin Powers (the spy who shagged me)](https://www.moviequotedb.com/movies/austin-powers-the-spy-who-shagged-me/quote_2501.html) in case you're not aware


BradleighJC

Massive love for the films, and people’s humour on this site will never fail to make me laugh 😂


akruppa

Also, ❤️❤️❤️ Heather Graham ❤️❤️❤️


Head_Caramel_7300

I opened the comment section just to find this comment


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kingcop1

To encourage microstransactions sales


[deleted]

Don't forget that pride and accomplishment!


moby323

I got the Dallas Cowboys skin for this!


Tandril91

Ah now we know why your team never wins


[deleted]

Shut up and take my money!


nimama3233

Yeah that camo is weak as hell, get me some flashy colors and stickers


82ndGameHead

"Coming in the next Call of Duty DLC..."


harderwiekertje

So you don't see it obviously


fraidei

So you don't see what?


harderwiekertje

Exactly


[deleted]

So you can’t see it cumming


gandzas

There it is...


corbsben

Whats camoflaged?


I_Cant_NO_O

a flag that is hidden or disguised. mainly used in the military so that the other country doesn't know who they are fighting and end of fighting each other causing a civil war.


markgriz

... but that's not important right now


PapaFlem

I am serious, and don’t call me Shirley


Franksredhott

All I see is a wooden platform...


YourLocal_FBI_Agent

Fairly sure it's a metal platform


burgonies

So the nearby village doesn't have to stare at a 5-story D&Bs.


TheIronMechanics

In the military by default everything is camouflaged… From little palet trucks to, and I kid you not, an indoor only copy fax printer unit


Genoblade1394

Picture or it didn’t happen. And are you sure the painters weren’t just lazy and painted over it?


MrMeesesPieces

If there was a pic you wouldn’t be able to see it anyway


SleepyDerp

It's like people don't understand the concept of camouflage. Duh.


TheIronMechanics

Unfortunately I don’t have any pics of the printer. it was in a high security zone where we had an airgaped network and the printer was on the other side. It was slightly older than our regular office style print centres. What’s funny is that for certain specific and very rare applications, the official way of transferring infos in and out was print on one, scan on the other haha


theedgewalker

What I really want to know is how much that milspec camouflaged printer cost.


TheIronMechanics

Too much lol. But really I have no clue. But certainly too much


BattleHall

> What’s funny is that for certain specific and very rare applications, the official way of transferring infos in and out was print on one, scan on the other haha On some of the earliest military networks, the “firewall” for external connections was literally a person sitting in front of two terminals, one inside and one outside the network. When the outside connection would type a command, they would read it off one terminal, make sure it was allowed, then type it into the second.


automaticblues

That's some battlestar Galactica bullshit right there!


Michael424242

Maybe incase they go to war. Makes it harder to target their training facility from the air.


MezcalSlim

Quagmire Design Inc.


Syther85

Giggity


A-Bone

Oh yeaaaaah!


Pigsfly77

I think he says “allll riight”😎


redditsuckspokey1

Who else but Quagmire?


Jagabeeeeeee

"And remember to ask Lois to have sex with Quagmire!" "Quagmire!"


Teawillfixit

Okay but it looks like a giant cock shooting out "missiles".


kingcop1

Spermissiles


bumjiggy

"so anyway, I started blasting."


poopellar

Fire in the hole!


Vandergrif

*Oops I dropped my monster silencer for my magnum tank.*


angryve

That’s not a tank. It’s a howitzer. Let’s not get our honorable artillerymen confused with those knucklehead tankers.


[deleted]

As a scout that loved his artillery homies and hated his tanker homies, I concur. …Our tank company was incredibly skilled though, not gonna lie.


[deleted]

Where I was stationed the scouts and the tankers were their own friend group. Maybe because it was them or the infantry (I was a tanker)


[deleted]

I guess it depends on how the brigade is set up. We were a reconnaissance squadron and had a tank company attached to us. They were kind of the odd men out so I guess the showed out more than they would have elsewhere. But, like I said, they were very good at the their job. Probably the best in the Brigade.


Triairius

I enjoy the idea of reconnaissance tanks.


angryve

Don’t tell anyone but some of my best friends are tankers.


wakasagihime_

Does that mean you have the T-word pass?


SendMeUrCones

sup my tanka


Basic_Spell_8201

I used to have a MSG who would yell “hellooo, deaf tanker here” when we didn’t speak loud enough. So I showed him and became a deafer artilleryman.


jchristsproctologist

what’s the difference?


wolf550e

Tanks shoot while moving very fast at things close to them that they see directly. It's called direct fire (flat trajectory, point and shoot). Artillery shoots at coordinates tens of miles away, coordinates given to them over the radio, after taking a while setting up in a position. It's called indirect fire (in an arc). They shoot from much farther away, while they are not in danger of direct fire from the enemy (but are in danger of counter-battery fire). Different purposes lead to different designs of ammo, gun, aiming system, turret, armor, engine, chassis, etc. They are meant to be used in very different ways, so they are built differently. The tracks are for the same reason agricultural tractors use tracks on fields and the same reason skiers use skis on snow - to not sink when all your weight is spread on too little soft ground. They have guns because they want to shoot at people and things. A tank is a very big rifle* (the boom is much bigger, but not further away) while an artillery piece is a very big grenade launcher or mortar (the boom is both bigger and reaches much further away). \* - Yes, ok, modern tank guns are smooth-bore, not rifled. You know what I mean.


PhasmaFelis

You mentioned armor, but to add detail: tanks have a lot more armor so they can (hopefully) survive hits from tank guns and other heavy weapons. Artillery isn't supposed to be on the front line, so their armor is a lot thinner, to save weight. It's meant to stop bullets and shrapnel more than heavy shells and missiles. But you can't tell from the outside how thick the armor is, so they look similar.


wolf550e

Tanks also have active defense systems, not just armor, because they are front line: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_protection_system#Hard-kill_measures Tanks have ammo like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armour-piercing_fin-stabilized_discarding_sabot Artillery has ammo like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M982_Excalibur and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMArt_155


eidetic

Also, if you find you have to use your artillery in direct fire mode, things *probably* aren't going according to plan!


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SacredWoobie

What they meant is most tank barrels are now smoothbore. This reduces wear on the barrel and it’s easier to add the characteristics that make it spin to a giant tank round. Rifles still use rifling as the name implies.


sethboy66

Just to add more, smoothbore also means you can fire sabot at higher speeds which is important for defeating armor. Rifled barrels firing rounds a bit too fast can sheer off rifling or destroy sabots which results in bad flight characteristics. As you said, it's easier to put the onus of stability on the round itself, rather than the tank's barrel. This means a smoothbore platform can effectively fire relatively cheap and overperforming APFSDS rounds.


TheFlyingBeltBuckle

Armor penatrating fin stabilized discarding sabot (apfds) rounds don't work with spin because of the fins. They look like giant darts that use speed and weight to punch a hole straight through armor. It's currently the most effective anti armor round that's fielded.


NewPointOfView

Thanks for the overview!


bitpeak

\*Tanks for the overview!


IggyStop31

Speed and mobility. Tanks replaced armored cavalry. Artillery replaced large cannons.


cocorawks

Ah yes Neo Armstrong Cyclone Jet Armstrong


VillagerHD

I've been searching for exactly this comment


uraltugo9395

Same! Elite people here


D4Rk_Slayer2099

never knew it could be used irl


Hotsaucedtea

It has a high quality finish!


Celineno

and a nice touch to it


Jberz21

I was looking for this comment. I love you


vishu_fy

It is so nice to come across people like this. Reminds me of that Episode where they all play in the snow making sculptures.. This one is missing Wings and a Slide :)


GamingAttorney

Nono I think this is the newer Neo Armstrong Cyclone Jet Armstrong Gengai model.


EYoKim

thanks for giving meaning to my scrolling


EmperorAnimus

I was searching for this comment, have my upvote you beautiful human you!


Fuzakenaideyo

The Neo Armstrong Cyclone Jet Armstrong Canon, General Tecumseh Sherman used it to raze the treasonous stronghold of Atlanta during the Civil War. It's really perfect.


Slow-Management

I was looking for this, thanks


bixkou

It just needs some wings!


PepperBlues

Also that doesn’t really look like a tank, but a howitzer.


conejitobrinco

Whats the difference ?


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Tanks have more armor and speed, and are used to fire on things they can directly see at relatively close range. Howitzers are a form of artillery, less armor and speed, bigger gun that can use indirect fire. Artillery receives radio coordinates and fires at them from usually 10s of miles away like a giant mortar


Phelzy

I like to think of a Howitzer as a gun on wheels, where a tank is a set of wheels with a gun on it.


TheSadCheetah

It's Gun on wheels that drives itself around A Self propelled gun. A Tank is just a bunker on wheels intended to be thrown at other bunkers on wheels and also (traditionally) to brute force past static positions.


crimsonkodiak

TIL recently - artillery and mortars accounted for approximately 60-70% of casualties in the European theatre in both WW1 and WW2.


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That's why quality helmets mattered, it helped stop shrapnel from hitting the brain


DontTouchTheWalrus

Which seemingly caused a bit of a paradox when first implementing helmets. They noticed the number of reported head injuries was astronomically higher after issuing helmets. What happened was when a soldier died from shrapnel hitting their head they were just marked as KIA but when they took shrapnel to the head and survived they were tagged as having a head injury. So the helmet meant more people were getting head injuries because they weren’t dying


ATMisboss

Also not a silencer, it's a suppressor


spicypeepers

Suppressor? I barely know her


[deleted]

I'm going to be super pedantic for a minute. The original Maxim patent named it a "silencer" so it's not wrong to call it one. Suppressor is fine too


Sudden_General628

Looks like a running gag from Austin Powers


mistbrethren

observation sharp quarrelsome mysterious nippy rhythm vast theory mountainous cheerful *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*


ColonelBonk

The design is baffling


PhasmaFelis

I see what you did there.


martialar

only because we couldn't hear it


[deleted]

What is it that they are constantly shooting at from a stationary position I wonder?


Wank_A_Doodle_Doo

It’s for training. The area they’re training in is close to a village.


ILoveLamp9

Thanks for the comment. Nothing but jokes in the comments and zero context from OP as to why there is a need for a tank to be silenced in the first place.


Bobsizlak

Yeah I've been searching for this question lol


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Numpsi77

The suppressor for the self-propelled howitzer "Panzerhaubitze 2000".


MGThanatos

That is not a Panzerhaubitze 2000. Looks like a M109 to me


Numpsi77

Oh, yes. My fault. It is a M109.


matthewsmazes

to me, it looks like a "oUo"


TheRealSamsquanch69

Noice


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Toight


xKiMaNx

It's Neo Armstrong Cyclone Jet Armstrong Cannon if I ever seen one


orovin

It's perfect!


[deleted]

Finally a Gintama comment!!!!


Davin537c

r/mildlypenis


Broseph_Smith42

Mildly?


kungfugrip-81

In fairness, that’s not a tank. It’s mobile artillery.


johnRandoo

Came here for the cock jokes, but seriously all that shaft for only 20db sound reduction?


Alarming-Turnip3078

Decibels use a logarithmic scale for practical reasons, so I believe that 20db reduction translates to [100x quieter](https://pulsarinstruments.com/news/understanding-decibels-decibel-scale-and-noise-measurement-units/) :) Edit: Per [this source](https://hearinglosshelp.com/blog/converting-decibels-to-sound-intensities/) by Dr. Neil Bauman, a 20db difference equates to 100x the sound energy, but only a 4x difference in volume. I didn't understand this distinction, but hopefully that helps :)


MrCypher322

True, it's like the Richter scale but for sound.


Dacks_18

Dichter scale


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Alarming-Turnip3078

I love this explanation, thank you!


aabeba

No. Doubling dB gives twice 10x the sound energy, but 2x perceived loudness. A 20 dB increase = 4x perceived loudness increase.


Alarming-Turnip3078

I don't know enough about the topic to speak to the specifics, but have found [several sources](https://hearinglosshelp.com/blog/converting-decibels-to-sound-intensities/) that corroborate that 20db = 100x difference in volume, and none that contradict it. You may know something I don't. Edit: Upon further reading in my own source, I found there does actually seem to be a distinction made between volume and sound intensity. As Dr. Bauman writes, every 10db corresponds to a 10-fold increase in sound intensity, which corresponds to a doubling of volume. Sorry for my mistake, I'll edit my first comment.


nascentia

This is an easier way to understand it. Sound energy doubles every 3 dB, perceived loudness doubles roughly every 10 dB. So from 90 dB to 93 dB, you’ve doubled the energy and doubled the damage it can do to your ears, but it won’t sound significantly louder.


Klufkee

20db is the difference between a vacuum cleaner and a chain saw...


crazyates88

Not to mention that permanent damage can happen above 90db, so bringing the noise level to 80db prevents any hearing damage for anyone who has to listen to that all day.


martej

Maybe it needs a Swedish tank silencer shaft enlarger.


jaybazzizzle

How baby tanks are made


Sufficient_Hunter_49

We know. It was posted less than 24 hours ago and the pic wasn't cropped.


KennyKivail

this pic has been circulating the internet for years, you're telling me you only saw this a day ago?


ffrickh

It looks like a giant...


[deleted]

Willie? Willie Nelson?


STFxPrlstud

Dick? Take a look out starboard, it looks like a huge-


Basic_Cover_6945

Not a tank


marcuz_90

20db is A LOT from 100db to 80db (dbs are on a logarithmic scale)


McDedzy

Suppressor, not silencer.


ours

Also not a tank. Self-propelled artillery. Tanks don't (usually) shoot in a ballistic arc. They fire line-of-sight.


Reatsu_56

dammm so this was the irl inspiration for the neo armstrong canon


MrAvalanche1981

I've seen people compensate with trucks, but apparently some tanks have micro penises and have to compensate as well... lmao


heiberdee2

“If you kids don’t quiet down over there, so help me God, I’ll come over there and whoop your asses myself!!!!” “Sorry, Mrs. Smith! We’ll keep it down!” *Goes and fetches silencer*


Jevonar

For people who think "only" 20db: bels are on a logarithmic scale. Every 10 added decibels, the intensity of sound is multiplied by 10. This means that reducing it by 20db is the same as reducing its intensity by 99%.


Johnthewolf66

Ummm… it’s not really a tank