Listen to the world's longest echo

Listen to the world's longest echo

Jan 19th 2014, 20:07, by Jacob Kastrenakes

You probably can't hear most of it, but this 112-second-long recording is proof of the world's longest echo. Set by a group of scientists inside an abandoned wartime fuel bunker, The Independentreports that it was created by firing off a pistol loaded with blanks. "I started off just playing around, whooping and hollering. The sound just goes on and on and on," Trevor Cox, the record setter, tellsThe Independent while describing the tunnels. "Then when we fired the pistol my initial reaction was disbelief; the reverberation times were just too long. I knew immediately we had a new world record."

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