Marty wrote:
"Edward Green" wrote in message
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Very loud music has recently been implicated in collapsed lungs. This
occurs after a small tear in the lung sac allows air into the chest
cavity, which tear can be in turn be caused by gut thumping bass.

I vaguely remember hearing that one too. Got any cites?

Sounds like a job for Myth Busters

Buster isn't equipped for that sort of test; they'd have
to go to pig parts again (remember the cola-pop rocks ep?).

As a sound tech, I have had the opportunity to stand in front of some very
large sub cabinets. These buggers would blow your clothes similar to having
your back to a 40mph+ wind.
They have left welts on my legs from my jeans snapping on my skin, but I
never lost a lung tho.

So blowing a lung may be dependent on a "convenient"
resonance inside the chest cavity, requiring the subject to
prestress everything by yelling etc. Gonna be hard to
model with pig parts...

Mark L. Fergerson