My house is under the LifeFlight helicopter preferred path to the major hospital just 1 mile away. We get that about once daily. We also occasionally get the helicopters from Ft. Hood (20 miles away) doing flight training maneuvers.
In addition, fairly regularly the ground rumbles at night with the booming of Ft. Hood artillery practice (it is a training military fort, after all). I shudder to think how loud/noticeable that is closer to the fort. It's like a low thunder rumbling sound, complete with earth vibration, since Temple (just north of Austin) sits atop the Edwards Plateau (major limestone layer) that runs through length of the state of Texas. That serves to radiate the Ft. Hood noise we hear and feel around twice a week. But we have gotten used to it all. It sure beats having to live with airplane traffic or train traffic (too far from our house, though Temple is the major train hub for Texas).
I live in central Scotland about 25 miles or less to Edinburgh airport but no planes or noise of anything. Occasional car going past, hymn singing from the church on a Sunday but that is it. And no children or neighbour noise either. I think you are fairly safe anywhere in Scotland unless in one of the cities.
'Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement' - Helen Keller
I should mention (for full disclosure as it were) that on a nearly still day I can hear the closest wind turbines going whump whump whump. and thing more than a very gentle breeze and there's too much noise from the trees to hear them. My only solace is that those particular turbines are being removed they're 80m tall and 1 mile away, on the flip side they are being removed as they will be in the wind for an extension to another farm; 3 extra turbines that will be up to 300m tall but 3.5 miles away.
We regularly walk on Pembrokeshire costal path and at times all you can hear is the sea 🌊 and sea birds 🦅
I once found perfect silence in Pembrokeshire. It was in the bowl of a sand dune near Bosherston and it lasted a full minute before a linnet broke it by singing. It's a type of almost oppressive silence you only get from sand and snow. The bird song was almost a relief. I'm not sure the human ear is happy with full silence.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I'm not sure the human ear is happy with full silence.
I'd have to disagree. While I always have the radio/tv/ music, on at home, or travelling, I regularly have complete silence on hills, and it's glorious. The ravens on summits can sometimes be the only thing to break it and I can get quite unreasonably annoyed with them
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I never seem to find complete silence in the hills without snow on the ground. There's always a soft sussuration of some kind. Even on a very quiet day the hills whisper quietly. Total silence needs the sound deadening effect you get from a material like sand or snow.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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I think you should crawl back under your rock. You've been rumbled - and reported for your dubious links.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
The ravens on summits can sometimes be the only thing to break it and I can get quite unreasonably annoyed with them
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...