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- From: urf@icl.se (Urban F)
- Subject: Re: sound in space
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 08:41:37 GMT
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- rchao@well.sf.ca.us (Robert Chao) writes:
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- >How many SF films are realistic enough that they show there is no sound
- >in space? All I can think of is 2001.
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- Didn't Silent Running have silent A-bomb explosions (which also looked
- like they should, and not fireworks), or am I thinking of another movie?
-
- BTW, when I first saw Star Wars, I figured out that what we heard wasn't
- "objective" sound in space, but rather what would be heard there, if one
- wore a set of head phones -- gravitonic radiation interference induced
- sound from the engines, for example.
- --
- Urban Fredriksson urf@icl.se (n.g.u.fredriksson.swe2001@oasis.icl.co.uk)
- "Failure requires effort. That's why some people never fail." -Bengt Anderberg
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