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Heathrow to pipe 'sounds of an airport' around airport (www.bbc.com)

submitted 4 days ago by resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 55 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Somebody was paid money for this.

Somebody was paid cold hard cash money to come up with this idea.

Somebody was paid money to approve this.

Somebody was paid money to create and record this.

Somebody was paid money to write this ludicrous story.

Somebody was paid money to edit this ludicrous story.

And it's the poors and immigrants that are to blame for the failings of this country?

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 20 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Don’t worry, soon AI will do all this work and no one will get paid to do anything.

[–] RobotZap10000@feddit.nl 12 points 4 days ago

And yet, the bullshit will flow just as freely, if not faster, than before.

[–] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

Chances are the people who came up with this idea already used AI to come up with the stupid fucking idea.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I mean, it could be interesting if they piped in ambient noise from outside the boarding area, etc, into the boarding area, particularly around the windows where you can see your plane and stuff.

Or like if there's an observation lounge watching take offs and things.

I assume that's not what they're talking about because no way an airport could be that cool, but details.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The best thing to pipe into an observation lounge is the tower/ground frequencies. Watching planes doesn't have to be a Disney experience with a soundtrack.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Watching planes doesn’t have to be a Disney experience with a soundtrack.

better than a "close encounters of a third kind" experience. Just saying. ;)

[–] Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's more likely people were already getting paid and just needed to come up with something to do to justify why they are there.

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 4 points 4 days ago