Just How LOUD is EXPLOUD!? - Pokemon Science | Gnoggin

Exploud the number one reason why I and many others say they should add a sound type there is no second reason but this pokemon boasts the highest number of sound base moves having a total of 11 different moves out of the 27 total sound based moves but I mean what even is a sound based move well essentially it's just a move that is blocked by soundproof - he'll Bell and Gen 5 for some reason but we're not here to talk about pokemon moves we're talking about X clouds insane pokedex entries and just how wrong they are let's just start off strong with this one in pokemon pearl the Pokedex states its howls can be heard over ten kilometers or about six miles away it emits all sorts of noises from the ports in its body that's really far I mean just go outside and try to yell at your buddy across town hey man you want to play Kirby's era high tonight you can't quite make out what his response was even furthermore in pokemon ruby it states that explode triggers earthquakes with the tremors it creates by bellowing if this Pokemon violently inhales from the ports on its body it's a sign that it's preparing to let out a huge bellow oh geez earthquake tremors I mean good lord that's a force of nature so why can explode be heard from so far away is it even possible and if it is possible could it actually be plausible that it could trigger earthquakes or at least tremors from just a roar I mean these are the questions here see they are right next to my head on the screen so let's start with the ability for it to roar and we heard 6 miles away and heads up you're gonna be learning a little bit about acoustics in today's episode also we're going to use 10 kilometers instead of 6 miles as that's what's stated in the non-american pokedex entries and that's a much easier number to work with so because I'm American I might sometimes still just say 6 miles it'll be confusing trust me so let's talk about the human hearing power that we all share as we are all definitely humans here the human hearing mechanism is highly sensitive and covers a wide range of loudness from the average threshold of hearing to the average threshold of pain this range is often described as zero DB SPL to 120 DB SPL DB meaning decibels and SPL meanings sound pressure level zero DB SPL is the sound level below which most humans cannot hear anything this is an average of course and there are some acutely sensitive ears that can sense sounds that is below this but while possible it is rare at least in adults but even more common is to lose your sense of hearing as you age and thus your threshold of able to hear it goes down as in the minimum DB SPL goes up 120 DB SPL then is the sound level above which most humans feel ear pain again though this is an average and there are some in sensitive ears that can withstand sound that is plenty above this hmm but here's a good question because this scale isn't a mere one-two-three scale where 3 is as loud as 3 once put together so just how much louder is 120 decibels SPL compared to zero well if we define zero decibels SPL as one unit of loudness then 120 is a million units of loudness as one acoustician put it if zero DB SPL is equivalent to the white of a butterfly then 120 is the weight of a pickup truck and obviously most pickup trucks weigh more than 120 butterflies it's also been put as if a hundred and twenty decibels SPL is equivalent to the height of Mount Everest zero is the height of a fat earthworm absolutely unity so let's figure out how loud Exploud is and I'm sure I'm going to be doing a lot of crazy comparisons of sound levels I mean here's one now a typical human conversation is about 60 decibels and the average lawnmower about 90 see the difference only 30 decibels but much much louder so then what can be heard 10 kilometers away I'm sure the world's loudest sound ever recorded can in fact it was heard 3000 miles away from its initial point back in 1883 the great eruption of Mount Krakatoa could be heard all over the world with almost 200 decibels measured historically at a hundred miles away even but even that is no match for the single loudest event that humans have ever been witnessed to Beck is recent as 1908 in Russia the Tunguska meteorite earth fall and with it an explosion equal to a 1000 Megaton bomb resulting in a shockwave clocked at over 300 decibels Wow see now we're talking about a huge number it only takes about a hundred and 70 decibels to cause death in humans death by sound is a very terrible way to go thankfully there isn't really anyone researching how to kill a sound but the general consensus is that a loud enough sound could cause an air embolism in your lungs which then travels to your heart and kills you alternatively your lungs might simply burst from the increased air pressure as acoustic energy is just waves of varying sound pressure after all the higher the energy the higher the pressure the louder the sound but what is the minimum volume of a sound to be heard at 10 kilometers or six ish miles I mean the real-world howler monkey is able to screech and howl so loud it can be heard up to three miles away and they clock in at 140 decibels and blue whales are one of the highest animals on the planet at a hundred and eighty-eight decibels although they are in water and sound acts differently in waters let's not go into that here so then I guess it's not that far off that a Pokemon can be heard from so far away I mean it's decibels is just double the loudest land animal on the planet not totally unbelievable I mean I guess there are some Pokemon that are made of rocks so I shouldn't really question it so to get this loudness it isn't actually all that complicated essentially we will need to invoke the inverse-square law you know what that is right well in layman's terms in DBS it means that for every time you double the distance your sound is about six decibels quieter so a 60 decibel conversation at 10 feet would be 54 decimal conversation at 20 feet also in DB railroad also a DB rating without an Associated distance or weight is worthless I could have a hundred and forty-four decibel speaker but I don't know if that's 144 decibels right next to it or across a lake so that gives us our first bit of information so let's figure this out Exploud is 10 kilometers away and it's audible to someone in fact it would have to be audible enough that they understand that it's an explode too so let's say that it's about as loud as your typical human conversation of 60 decibels so now we take the square law of this and throw all the math on screen if you measure a sound level I 1 equals 133 point 9 decibels at a distance D 1 equals 2 meters equals 6 point 5 feet then at distance D 2 equals 10,000 meters equals 3 to eight oh eight point three feet the inverse square law predicts a sound level I 2 equals 60 dB what all of this means is that at 10 kilometers you heard explodes roar as loud as 60 decibels then if you were 2 meters away it would be a hundred and thirty-four decibels loud roughly the equivalent of a gunshot and if you've heard gunshots up close they hurt your ears that's why shooting ranges require hearing protection but the thing here is that gunshots while loud they are quick the sound goes away super fast Exploud can just keep yelling for quite some time so much letter that it would be quite painful also notably this equation was done assuming we were in an open field and there aren't any acoustic reflectors or dampeners in the way of explode to you typically if you're out in the wilderness there would be trees and things in the way preventing the sound from traveling as well so this is a really rough estimate perhaps a best-case scenario it could be more or less now this number is only a few decibels away from the threshold of pain and guaranteed hearing loss at 149 decibels your lungs begin to resonate with the sound vibrations that cause difficulty breathing and at 150 you have your typical rock concert sound levels in the speakers at 153 you will lose the ability to swallow so thankfully this guy isn't all that crazy it's 134 decibels it's about the same as a bass in a very huge car stereo setup at max volume it's actually one higher than a gunshot a typical gunshot anyway and it definitely beats the loudest human scream only coming in at 128 decibels as well as most fire alarms which range from 65 to 120 but clearly then considering all this it's not loud enough to cause ground tremors I mean really so perhaps this is just explodes average sound based attack sure because fun fact a 5.0 earthquake is normally recorded at 287 decibels and is believed that the sound waves after an earthquake may be what caused the aftershocks the thin grainy layer of rock and dirt between the tectonic plates acts as a liquid when vibrated at the correct frequency losing that bond of friction the more the plates move causing more earthquakes so it's not all that far-fetched for sound to cause tremors but that's only really the case around tectonic plates of course in Pokemon we see that they are able to create earthquakes pretty much anywhere all over which is inaccurate I suppose now I don't know about you but growing up in California the only real things we were taught are how to prevent forest fires about why earthquakes happen essentially it's when two tectonic plates who always are moving against each other Ruth finally give way creating an abrupt motion resulting in large earth-shattering forces literally and if you've seen any movie with earthquakes they always seem to get the rumble wrong in fact it's normally a lot harder to hear because the sound is coming from a much much deeper point than what you'd expect in fact just for a 2.0 earthquake the decibels were recorded at two hundred and ten decibels but at such a low frequency that humans are barely able to hear it along with that the noise would be miles and miles deep underground so unfortunately I'm not sure Exploud would be able to recreate an earthquake just by his own experience that is if six miles was his maximum distance on how far you could hear it but if it was somehow able to get up to a hundred and forty five decibels it wouldn't be able to vibrate your eyes causing vision problems and you'd get inner ear vibration issues which would just not only make it very difficult to hear things but you would become significantly off-balance so we can make you feel like you're experiencing tremors for sure very disorienting so while this large pipe organ looking monster wouldn't actually be able to move the Earth's crust with its noise it is essentially a master illusionist a true pocket monster for sure plus it can just learn the move earthquake anyway no need for sound blasts to do it so I guess whoever wrote the Pokedex was tricked by an illusion or and explode using earthquake while it was simultaneously screaming as I'm sure it does because with a mouth that big I'd be screaming constantly to you know do you think rain gets into its head holes and it kind of like irritates it could it drown itself in the rain like some turkeys do or does it blow the water out like a whale these are the real questions people well I hope you enjoyed our looking to exploit its really explosive and loud oh that's what its name is all right cool yeah well as always never stop using your noggin and check out the way awesome merch store down below doodles [Music]

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Id: 4EBgm_8GR9Y

Length: 13min 12sec (792 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 26 2018