As everyone knows, if something is audible, then it’s not silence. Everyone should know that, right? You’d think so. But it appears that JMU does not understand that. The picture at left is from the fire alarm panel at Potomac Hall, where they can’t seem to figure out that you can’t hear silence, because the very nature of silence demands no sound! If you read the panel, right below “ALARM”, is “AUDIBLE SILENCE”. When was the last time you heard a CD, and they played a sound, and you recognized it as silence? I can see it… “Ah… gotta love that silence music!” Answer is that it doesn’t make sense. But then again, what does make sense in this world? If you read the archives, I’ve already documented the complete silliness about why there is a designation about how big the emergency buttons are… this is yet another thing that just doesn’t make sense around here…
