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...monster. But would he accept his freedom? It seemed doubtful. It would be too easy to lay boards across the tops of a billion sedans and start all over again with jet propulsion, foam rubber wheels and special lighters for the motorist's neon-trimmed opium pipe...
...bases will blame all sorts of ailments on the screaming jets. The truth about jets seems to be that their noise, when heard in the open and at a reasonable distance, is not at all harmful. But the intense "sound fields,"* which extend a short way behind the tail pipe, can have alarming and possibly harmful effects on people who enter them. When afterburners come into general use, adding their basso profundo to the scream of the jets, the fields of sound may become serious menaces...
...into its sound field. Few emerged without respect for what sound waves can do. When they get strong enough, the sound waves not only hurt the ears but make other parts of the body vibrate. A man standing in a sound field of 120 decibels (common near the tail pipe of a jet) feels the waves in surprising ways. If he holds out his hand, his fingers get painfully hot whenever they touch one another. If he partially opens his mouth, his nasal cavities may resonate like organ pipes. Sometimes his lower jaw vibrates so strongly that...
...lack of oil pipe, already scarce, U.S. wildcatters have had to cut back their drilling plans by 100 wells...
...just come in out of a high wind. His laughter often shakes the walls of the room, and he will discuss his ideas by the hour, sometimes humorously, with nearly anybody who happens to visit him. These discussions, accompanied by toothy grins and constant puffs from a pipe, are so lengthy and enthusiastic that they sometimes seduce him from more important work...