More and more clubbers these days are wearing hearing protection when they go out, keen to protect their ears from the intensely loud systems inside today's clubs and superclubs. However not even a set of ear plugs could keep you safe around this system.
The soundsystem was designed by scientists at the European Space Agency, and is the most powerful sound system in Europe, meaning according to the ESA, no human could survive hearing it at maximum output. Called the Large European Acoustic Facility (LEAF), the system is capable of subjecting satellites to the same noise a launcher produces as it takes off and flies through the atmosphere.
Located in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, one wall of the chamber stands 11m wide by 9m deep and 16.4m high, and is embedded with a set of enormous sound horns, which when activated, shoot nitrogen that produces a range of noise up to more than 154 decibels, which would be "like standing close to multiple jets taking off." For worker's protection, LEAF is surrounded by steel-reinforced concrete walls to contain the extreme noise, and can only operate once all the doors are shut. Not exactly ideal for the terrace at Amnesia.