“ How loud is 240 dB? Like the Richter scale, the decibel scale is not linear but logarithmic. So 10 dB is 10 times louder than silence. 20 dBis 100 times more powerful. 30 dB is 1000 times more powerful, and so on. Exposure to 110 dBA will most likely damage human hearing after two minutes. The sound of a jet taking off is about 140 dBA. “

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-13/jock-serong-port-fairy-big-weekend-of-books/103947438

#firstnations #Gunditjmara #Mirning #PortFairy #seismicblasting #Gas #FossilFuels #FightForTheBight

Pretty pics below from recent #cybernetic and #archaeology #fieldwork on #Noongar and #Mirning country 🌊☀️

I spent last week travelling with an incredible #interdisciplinary team across the #outback of #WesternAustralia investigating old #telegraph lines, #repeaterstation remains, and the surrounding #environment. What can we learn from historical large-scale #complexsystems and #technologies, and apply to new/emerging ones? (like #artificialintelligence maybe 😉)

#firstnations #mirning #NullaborPlain #GreatAustralianBight
#GreatSouthernScarp

https://theconversation.com/the-nullarbors-rich-cultural-history-vast-cave-systems-and-unique-animals-all-deserve-better-protection-212262

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08120099.2020.1742202

Nullarbor Plain #CaveArt in South #Australia, up to 40,000 years old, sacred to the #Mirning people of the Great Australian Bight, and National #Heritage site since 2014, deliberately vandalized and irreparably destroyed:

https://nit.com.au/21-12-2022/4564/vandals-destroy-40000-year-old-ca via @nit_times@twitter.com