What is the loudest thing you have ever heard?

My local swat team was doing a demonstration last year and they threw a flashbang in a building and it was so loud! This kid their actually started crying after it went off lol.

So wat is the loudest thing you have ever heard?

A city block I was on exloded..was kind of loud.

One of those stupid chopper bikes with the big muffler on it. Those are so annoying.

Shuttle launch. thriteenthmonke

Between either:

1. Enormous lightning strike right by my apartment in the middle of the night. The accompanying thunder scared the s*** out of me. Thunderstorms never bother me... I love them... but this was so goddamn f***ing loud... I've never been so scared in my life... I mean only for a split second, but f***. For the entire day afterwards, if someone or something made a loud-ish noise, I'd freak out... like I had mini-PTSD or something.

2. I had to get to my plane across the tarmac, and there was a business jet just chilling, between me and my plane.... and it was doing run-ups or something before taxiing... I didn't want to go around the front so I just walked right behind it and the engines. Couldn't hear anything for a while after that. :P

3. Supersonic wind tunnel at my university that we used for a few compressible flow experiments. I actually have no idea just how loud it was since I had to wear ear protection. But it sounded loud!

[QUOTE="thriteenthmonke"]Shuttle launch. FPSunionOWNS

Naval battleship cannons fired simultaneously. It was during a war exercise that I got to watch. :)

[QUOTE="FPSunionOWNS"][QUOTE="thriteenthmonke"]Shuttle launch. British_Azimio

I accidentally blew up an egg in the microwave.SolidSnake35

As loud as a nuke explosion? :o

[QUOTE="SolidSnake35"]I accidentally blew up an egg in the microwave.Vancelvany

As loud as a nuke explosion? :o

"Yeah, if you could just make sure the steam valve for the dome is open, that'd be great. Oh, and make sure you let the crew know you're up there so they don't blow the-oops, too late."

:| Never forgive. Never forget.

NHRA Top Fuel Dragsters.
150db.

A gunshot. My ears were ringing for several days after that.

Military fighter jets going faster than the sound barrier a couple hundred feet over my head. I was at the Long Beach Grand Prix when this happened. I thought those Indi cars were loud, boy was I wrong!

Come to think of it, I actually have no idea what the loudest thing I've ever heard is. Damn you for making me ponder!

hovering jet at an airshow

An electricity box in my street exploded once. That or when I stood next to a speaker for an entire Justice Crew performance. Couldn't hear for like 2 days.

Having some fighter jets flying right above me at an airshow. I was just walking around some displays and then I see a plane pass overhead and think; "Oh wow, I wonder when the noise is going to hi-"KA ****ING BOOMHSGFDLAEWFHEWI.." My organs felt like they had been rattled around.

When I was younger my oldest brother stole a car with some friends and went on a joy ride.

My answer to this question is my mother, after the cops brought him home.

Being Ex-Navy, I've been exposed to everything from Jets, gun and heavy ship artillery.

Oddly enough, I still have good hearing.

Dynamite exploding after I lite and tossed it into the field.

Transformer on a utility pole blew up. topsemag55

Oh god yeah. That is also loud. I have been around a few of them blowing up. I am no longer sure which I consider louder. The Dynamite or a transformer blowing.AmazonTreeBoa

Dynamite exploding after I lite and tossed it into the field.

AmazonTreeBoa

[QUOTE="thriteenthmonke"]Shuttle launch. FPSunionOWNS

Nevermore.

My CD player's powerful

2200 bhp ''funny car'' doing a burnout right next to me. As an added bonus I also got hot bits of rubber/asphalt all over me.

A god damn hand greneade crashed through a window and exploded in my kitchen. It was War. It scared the crap out of me.

Stood directly underneath the speaker at a concert, my hearing in one ear was muffled for two days following. I think I may have permanently damaged my hearing.

I think it was a surprised teenage girl.

I think it was a surprised teenage girl.

Evil_Saluki

On a Justin Bieber concert? :|