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Loudest motorsport

What is the loudest motorsport? Before you say drag racing, could tractor pulling be louder? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.64.221.25 (talk) 07:46, 19 August 2019 (UTC)

Loudest for whom - the participants or the spectators? Are you talking about solely the semi-constant noise from the vehicles themselves or would you include the extra, but transient, noises from things like crashes or explosions? Matt Deres (talk) 13:57, 19 August 2019 (UTC)

Lets say for a spectator 50 meters from the passing car. The engine noise when accelerating, of course not explosions...

It is a commonly held belief outside of the USA that the loudest sport is F1 Racing. This being separate from stock car racing, drag racing or that American one where they just go round in circles. I suppose this is splitting hairs, as essentially they are all motor racing, yet are completely different. A contribution to this is that much like the "World" series joke, in baseball, only including one country, several of these only really occur in the USA on any form of grand scale, and so don't really count as "world" sports. Thanks Anton 81.131.40.58 (talk) 16:50, 19 August 2019 (UTC)

One country? That would come as a terrible shock to fans of the Toronto Blue Jays. Also, MLB has players from all over the world. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 19:17, 21 August 2019 (UTC)

F1 is nowhere near as loud as a dragster. Tractor pulling also feels louder, but is often a lot more bassy and pleasant.

imagine all the other top 4 leagues didn't exist and their players had to compete with English Premier League players for a spot in that league and EPL had Paris St Germaine and it has won. This is why world series is not wrong. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 17:48, 21 August 2019 (UTC)

Are air shows like the Blue Angels a motor sport? What about space launches? I've heard that the first launch of the Space Shuttle made the loudest noise in history: the noise from the solid fuel rocket boosters actually broke the concrete launch pad. In later launches they damped down this noise by spraying water over the engine exhaust during liftoff. 67.164.113.165 (talk) 02:18, 21 August 2019 (UTC)

The loudest noise in recorded history might well be the Krakatau eruption in 1883 or so. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 19:19, 21 August 2019 (UTC)

What on earth are you both talking about? Krakatau, rocket launch or an air show are not motorsports. Maybe the Red Bull air race is a motorsport, but they are not that loud. -- 193.64.221.25

Air shows involve things with motors, although motorsports usually refers to cars and other grounded vehicles. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 12:01, 22 August 2019 (UTC)

Try to identify this Debussy's composition, starting at this moment (taking 5:30 minutes).

Umzu (talk) 17:06, 19 August 2019 (UTC)

Why? The entire track list is given in the accompanying information, making it trivially easy to identify this third (and in any case very well known) piece: a user's comment additionally specifies the exact start times, making it even more obvious, so you evidently know the answer yourself. I'm not sure that posing the RefDesk volunteers quizzes is an appropriate use of the desk.

If it matters to you, I myself recognised it from the first two notes. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 2.123.24.56 (talk) 18:12, 19 August 2019 (UTC)

Please assume good faith.

No, unfortunately, I saw no "accompanying information", and I don't know what you are talking about. As a person who has very poor knowledge in music, I indeed know it's a well known composition (I too recognised it from the first two notes - even though the previous time I heard it was about two decades ago), yet I forgot what its name was, and that's why I asked. Had I known the answer - I wouldn't have asked, and of course I didn't intend to - post a "qiuz" - as you mistakenly thought. It's ok if you don't want to answer directly, so I will have to wait for another user - who does assume good faith - and who is willing to let me know the answer I'm still waiting for. STILL. Umzu (talk) 19:26, 19 August 2019 (UTC)

You have to click the "show more" button to get the track list. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 00:13, 20 August 2019 (UTC)

"Clair de lune" ---Sluzzelin talk 19:35, 19 August 2019 (UTC)

Oh, thanks. I confused it with Beethoven's moon light sonata, and I now wonder how it happened that two composers composed two different compositions with the same name. Umzu (talk) 22:02, 19 August 2019 (UTC)

Well, Beethoven didn't call his composition "Moonlight Sonata". That name was added by an editor 5 years after Beethoven's death, and the name stuck. -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 22:05, 19 August 2019 (UTC)

In any event, "Clair de lune" (which means moonlight) and "Moonlight Sonata" are not the same title. But there are many examples of works by different writers, composers, painters, film makers etc having the same name. -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 22:07, 19 August 2019 (UTC)

Victor Borge used to segue from "Moonlight Sonata" to "Night and Day" — Preceding unsigned comment added by Baseball Bugs (talk • contribs) 00:15, 20 August 2019 (UTC)