99% Noise
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San Francisco Cable Cars - Is That Noise?
Noise, very simply, is unwonted sound. In the epich of gilgamesh, the gods get so infuriated with the noisiness of their human neighbors that they send a flood to wipe us all out. For tourism business in san francisco, that sound, that's good. But believe it or not, we've been called in to people who are annoyed by the sound of those clanking bells sor the cables that run under the street. And right there, 15 feet apart from one another, a minor triumph and a minor failure of design.
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