>The screams when the gerontocracy gets to practice what it preaches will be audible on the moon.
Across a light-second of pretty good vacuum... that would be most impressive. Would probably require a 4- or 5-digit dBa reading at the source < g >
UPDATE: I just submitted the question of how loud the screams would have to be to Randall Munroe of XKCD "What If":
http://what-if.xkcd.com/
Regards. Al
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