I have 35 nrr ear protectors, and 22 nrr plugs, and I don’t know what noise-cancelling tools would offer comparable protection. I have sunglasses, too. But they aren’t enough to deal with all the noise and lights. I often have to cover my eyes around busy intersections, because I can’t see or function with all the flashing lights.
I would like to get away from the noise, but I don’t think I could move in this condition.
I will say this: if you or someone with a comparable neurological condition had smashed the drone out of desperation I’d at least have sympathy for your motivations, especially if you’d requested them to relocate first.
This guy? So far all signs point to “just a run-off-the-mill drunken asshole.”
I’ve got no problem with responsibly-flown drones. For me, the critical issue is the wearing of sweatpants in public (unless one’s actually exercising).
Attenuation itself won’t do the job. Try the noise trick. Nerves are sensitive more to differences than to absolute values; pushing a level of signal to all of the auditory ones may drown the other signals. May or may not work for you; but if you can tolerate white or pink noise or any other kind of such signal, use it to drown out the bad ones.
I don’t think the local environment will change to suit you; it seems to me that the option of getting some sort of help with the moving from any local friends or family is worth checking out.
Yea, like in North Korea?
Thanks. I hate earbuds, but I could probably look for an mp3 player, and play pink noise via buds instead of the plugs, with the protectors over everything. The cords wouldn’t affect the seal any more than the glasses frames do.
I just hate ambient racket. It’s completely distracting, and exhausts me with the effort to ignore it. I wear corded earplugs, the industrial certified ones for factories like Moldex, around my neck all day, every day. They’re fussy to use properly but provide blissful silence once in place.
Try a proof of concept with what you have. If it works, incrementally improve it version by version. You won’t get perfection, so aim “only” for improvement.
There may even be off-the-shell ear protectors with speakers inside, for industrial (e.g. agricultural vehicle drivers…) operators. In absence of that, the cords for the earbuds may be possible to get in through a hole in the earcup shells, which then gets sealed with a rubber cork (or silicone or hot-melt adhesive or other soft absorbing material).
I am experimenting somewhat with LCD shutter glasses (the active ones for 3d televisions), for electronically adjustable sunglasses (and a countermeasure for the flashing-light disorienting nonlethal weapons), a variant on the self-darkening welding helmets. May be helpful for blinking lights, though more likely the flash darkening of the whole field of vision would just make it worse. (A matrix of larger dots, however, may be better; obscure just the part of field of vision that shows high localized brightness changes. A transparent LCD panel, maybe a cellphone display stripped of the backlight and reflection layer, sort of how homemade projectors are made from LCD screens, could work here in combination with a camera and computer vision; but that’s a high speculation and may be difficult to do and there’s no certainty it’d work.)
I am actually terrified of helicopters and helicopter-like toys. If this was that close to me, I might swat it out of pure terrified reflex. Phobias are not logical.
It is interesting to me that I am passionately on both sides of this argument. A theme I see arising lately is this idea that “because I was afraid something might happen, I had to act.” (I thought the alarm clock in the locker MIGHT be a bomb, so I charged this here teenaged girl with a felony. I though that guy in a storm trooper costume MIGHT have a real gun, so I arrested him…) I thought they might come peep in my windows with their drone = equally lame. On the other hand, holy jesus, drones, airplanes, helicopters, won’t someone think of the noise and irritation and worry caused by all this foofaraw in the air? I live close to Downtown Minneapolis and near two critical care hospitals, and I am so over the constant helicopter, circling airplane, drone noise in my neighborhood. 3/5 of the people in my family have migraines, and sound is a real issue. So, I guess, let’s enact some meaningful noise/surveillance laws, and also, don’t be a jerk and destroy other people’s really expensive property.
Setting aside whether expressing annoyance at the entitled hipsters is blind ad hominem, astute observation, or merely stating the obvious, the whole “dangerous and noisy” part of my post is plenty substantial an argument. I’m sorry if you can’t seem to see past the invective. Then again, angry drunken man and I do not need your support or your approval, for we have the moral high ground, and a righteous drunken rage on our side.
I wonder if our definitions of away differ, or if it is our definitions of people.
Calling them entitled hipsters is an ad hominem flat out. You have used an unsubstantiated derogatory term to demonize behavior without any actual merit to justify your position.
I can definitely appreciate righteous drunken rages but I should warn you that I’ve out philosophized Irish, Germans and Russians, all peoples known for both their drinking and their philosophy (and their rage!), in the depths of my cups!
4 drunks can turn over a microbus, don’t ask me how I know.
Hulk smash thing owned by non-destructive rude clod.
I might have thought two or three drunks of sufficient stature could knock over an unladen microbus. There ain’t much to 'em.
four. one to hold three beers.
Seems like a typical drunk old white man doing whatever he want’s to do because as an old drunk white man he’s entitled to do whatever he wants to do. He walked up on to the scene to be a bully because he’s always gotten away with that kind entitled attitude.
Do cars drive over your house? That’s something the obviously not inebriated man objected to with the “what the hell” guy.
Right, wrong, blah blah blah blah. Legal cases will be won, legal cases will be lost. The salient point is that the guy lashed out over fear of violation of his privacy, and he won’t be the only one feeling that way as drones become more commonplace. So careful where you play with your toys 
