HF limit of hearing

> I'm 42, a bassist (with past rock & roll loud performing), but still in
> reasonably good shape, etc., and my hearing discrimination also fades out
> arount 16 kHz. Either I'm holding on OK or Marcus is aged before his time!

One more data point:

I'm 35, suffer from mild tinnitus, and also play bass (with ear
plugs!).

Until a few years ago, the flyback transformer from TV sets used to
drive me nuts (approx 15.75 kHz), even across a room. At this point, I
can still hear it, but I have to be pretty close to the set.

I hope this doesn't mean that I'll start to like TV or something. :-)

Steve

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> I'm pretty
> sure "science" doesn't have a clue just yet as to how to explain what's
> going on there. Death comes for all, and we know not when, or how it will

> occur...absolutely natural, and out of our control.

(Hmmm... Well, I'm not sure that death would qualify as an astrological
force, but that's not your point.)

Death is certainly one of those things in our world that can be
approached from a scientific or a religious perspective. But although the
topic is the same, the answer is different. The reason the answer is
different, is because the question is different.

The scientific questions about death are all addressed under the heading
of Medical Science. Certainly it's not difficult, for most causes of death
anyway, to explain the mechanism in cold, unambiguous, logical terms.

But that's pretty much the proverbial "water under the bridge" when it
comes to the religious angle on death. Because in that case the questions
are entirely different: "How will the surviving family deal with grief?",
"will we ever see the deceased again?", for example.

And music is similar, as I aluded in my previous post. It has a clear
physical underpinning, and it also has deep impacts on our feelings. But
just because they're both consequences of music doesn't mean that the study
of one will necessarily help you draw conclusions in the other.


But all that aside, there's certainly nothing mysterious about the
effects of the recent solar discharge upon satellites and upon terrestrial
organisms including people. It had little readily apparent effect upon us,
and damaged a satellite, largely because the satellite is outside of the
shield of our atmosphere.

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