That last bit is a little poetic to say the least.
Probably be a big roar. Like hurricane wind.
the sheer scale of the universe makes me want to get into astronomy.
Do it! It’s a fantastic science, with ever expanding horizons! That being said, if working in the field is a bit too much, amateur astronomy is a fabulous and friendly hobby - if a bit expensive
it does sound like a fascinating field, but im not sure there’s much in it for me outside of a hobby. I guess i need to look into what the field actually does lol.
It’s a fantastic science, with ever expanding horizons!
Pun appreciated.
That’s a stellar joke.
It’s out of this world funny.
Oh boy! YouTube suggestions for you!
- Astrum
- PBS space time*
- scishow space
- History of the universe******
- Coolworlds*
- Arvin Ash
- Paul Sutter*
- Startalk
- Kurzgesagt*
My favs are starred
Astrum, history of the universe and PBS spacetimes content is soooo good they absolutely get money from me regularly and I hope they stick around for decades to come!
Yes. HOTU is the best channel I swear. They are so professional and so polished.
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I guess I have a new one!
He’s a wonderful person :)
i’ll definitely have to come back and check some of these out sometime.
imagine … hearing the jackhammer scream of our star
Sounds are a form of energy. If we were bombarded by sound waves for the entire existence of the planet, I assume life would have adapted to harness this abundant power source and made it instrumental to how we survive and thrive.
instrumental
Heh.
First time I saw the North Lights in person I also expected something other than complete silence. I don’t know what, but they’re so surreal and massive I thought you’d hear something.
I expected to hear MF DOOM’s Accordion
so, someone did the math on that?
no vacuum, that means atmosphere. so lets say 1 atmospheric pressure the whole way.
which would be sad, because rain, clouds, ozone layer and countless other atmospheric phenomen would be impossible. so no life on the planet anyway.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_attenuation
how loud is the sun? does anybody know? what is the acoustic pressure on a certain orbit near the sun, iof there is atmosphere?
so, the acoustic presssure needs to reach earth. it needs to travel 13 years.
overcoming this much atmosphere between sun and earth eats energy, since there is a resistance. because there is an atmosphere, see? thats why sound gets softer and softer, the more away you are from the source.
so I guess the whole idea is bullshit.
but i am just a construction worker, maybe someone else will do the math.
i doubt any light rays would make it here. it would be pitch black dark.
the light would be scattered by the atmosphere.
the vaccum does not block sound. it just doesnt transmit it. there is nothing what can block.
same as vacuum does not suck. never. the key is pressure differential, the higher pressure dictates what will happen, not the lower pressure.
#I can hear this image
I scrolled slow and mentally imagined it.
Just one small hitch: if there was an atmosphere in space dense enough to carry sound, the earth would burn up in minutes.
The planet could simply exist further back from the sun where the R^2 property renders the energy more diffuse.
And apparently it would be quite loud during the burning!
Well yeah, I wouldn’t expect people and other animals to be quiet while the entire planet is burning up.
JACKHAMMERS I TELL YA!!
Ah, so this isn’t tinnitus, I can actually hear the sun!
That or you’re standing next to a jackhammer.
Oh hey, thanks! Been hearing it for years, turns out I just never look left!
I wish they’d give me my driver’s license back…
I’m not sure what kind of jack hammer you’ve used, but they sound nothing like Tinnitus.
Nah. It starts out like THUD! THUD! and then slowly after a couple minutes of warming up, that goes all muffled and it becomes that familiar high-pitched ringing noise.
Mine is more of a mixture of static and a hum. Maybe what tingly would sound like.
On the plus side, if we evolved on Planet Sunblaster then our hearing would have evolved to either dial down the volume or filter it out completely.
Or perhaps we’d use the reflected soundwaves to navigate with echolocation much like we use reflected light waves to see.
I mean we hear the sound of our blood rushing through the veins of our ears at all times, but our brain filters it out. That the “sound of the ocean” you hear when listening into a conch, it just amplifies the bloodwaves. Other fun stuff our brain does: Our eyes are actually perceiving the world upside down and with a blind spot right in the middle.
The way senses are processed is almost unbelievable.
When your eyesight is partially damaged (by a laser, for example), your brain will fill in the spots, so you won’t even realise there’s a problem until it’s too late (too much damage to cover up).
As the above stated, there’s a blind spot (although I don’t think it’s smack in the middle) - there are tests online you can try to ‘see’ it.
Your sight also automatically enhances objects it thinks are important, and will predict movementsand patterns, e.g. a baseball you’re trying to hit.
There’s also no colour in peripheral vision, although the brain does colour it in.Oh, didn’t know the one with no color in peripheral vision, that’s fun!
If the sun were to go out it would take 8 minutes for the light to stop but 13 years for the sound to stop.
Kind of like when you kill an enderman. 🤔
You wouldn’t, of course. Hearing, the way we hear, in such an environment would be useless. We wouldn’t have evolved that. This is like saying “ultraviolet radiation from the sun would be everywhere, all the time, can you imagine?” It is everywhere all the time, but as such it isn’t a useful sense to possess, so we don’t.
This also makes some very weird assumptions about what the sound would be like. If space were a medium sound could travel through then it would–like all mediums capable of carrying a sound wave–alter the wave in many ways. Intensity, frequency, etc. But since we don’t know what kind of medium that would be, and since the comment doesn’t posit any particular medium, we don’t know what the sound would sound like or even how loud it would be.
If the sound is more of a loud hiss, you might find that echolocation can work very well. Much like our eyes collect available light bouncing off surfaces, similar techniques can be used with sound.
By your logic, light isn’t a useful sense to possess since it’s everywhere all the time thanks to sunlight and moonlight, is that correct?
Actually, since ultraviolet radiation and light are both electromagnetic waves, they should be treated the same, shouldn’t they? It’s as if there could be a different reason why we can detect one but not the other.
Yes, and some animals (mostly birds iirc) do see UV. Boring brown/black birds aren’t so boring in UV. I don’t know the evolutionary pressure necessary for UV, but it could have developed. Red, for instance, is believed to have been useful for us to pick out berries. Wolves, being carnivorous, wouldn’t necessarily need it, so see in yellow blue… or so I read as a theory a while ago.
Bees see UV too, it supposedly helps them navigating around flowers.
I assume that this thought experiment posits a space filled with the same average density of particles found at ground level on Earth. Obviously such a thing is nonsensical, but it serves to illuminate one aspect of the raw power of the Sun that we ignore, because we’re insulated from it by 93 million miles of vacuum.
I imagine it would be kind of like the hypnotoad sound
Obey the giant burning floating orb
All hail Almighty Ra!
[email protected] leaking
Nah my mind went to Stargate
I’ll admit I’ve never watched Stargate, but I thought it was scifi? I didn’t realise it engaged with Egyptian mythology.
It heavily features a race of creatures that have posed as gods throughout most of human history, so it touches on almost all the mythologies. Egyptian mythology features very heavily, with Ra being the first of this alien race that the series engages with.
Oh neat. I should get around to watching it.
Evolution would say: nope. And the surviving class would be deaf. No one is able to accept a permanent jackhammer.
Or evolve the ability to echolocate with the reflections of the background noise. Like our eyes does with light.
Evolution might just block out certain frequencies. No need to go completely deaf.
Like the frequency dying plants make? Makes sense. Looks like evolution could already did this in the past.
I’m sorry what the fuck now
alright that’s it, I’m never eating plant based food again.
What… What’s let to eat then?
meat, exclusively
Fungi.
Thanks for making me aware 🙇
Wait you mean you guys can’t hear that?
A bullet fired from a gun goes more or less at Mach 1, correct?
It’s thirteen years to the sun at the speed of a bullet?Spacecraft towards Mercury, or the Parker Solar Probe go much faster than that, take a few years to make it there, but they are doing so picking up speed in flybys of first Earth, then Venus, then Mercury, in several, ever tighter orbits.
It’s both fun and illuminating to try and visualize these things in new ways. In this case, from the viewpoint of a bullet.
