2007-02-04 04:49:53 · 14 answers · asked by daniel a 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Yes, if you were inside a pressurized container of some kind. Floating in space, no.
2007-02-04 04:53:50 · answer #1 · answered by i_liked_dos 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Strictly speaking, the answer is "No". The reason is that sounds need to be transmitted through something; when you clap your hands, the impact cause air molecules to vibrate, and they hit other air molecules which hit others, and so on until eventually some of them impact on your eardrum, and the brain interprets the vibrations from the impacts.
The vacuum of space doesn't have any molecules to carry any sound vibrations, and so there is nothing for the sound to be transmitted through.
However, if you are in space, and by that I'm assuming you're in a spacesuit outside your spacecraft, then there is air inside your spacesuit. So if you clap you hands, then the vibrations could be transmitted through your spacesuit and you could hear something. Though as it's not a direct line from your hands to your ears - the sound has to travel up the arms of your spacesuit - the sound would probably be muffled. No-one else would hear it, though.
There is another aspect to this, which has long been used in science fiction. If two astronauts in spacesuits have a problem with their radio, then they could touch their helmets together. Then when one of them talks, the air vibrations could be transmitted to the helmet, and then this could make their partner's hemet vibrate, causing the air inside to vibrate as well and allowing their colleague to hear them. This has never needed to be tried on a real space flight!
2007-02-04 05:10:41 · answer #2 · answered by Questor 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you clapped your hands in space, you would not be able to hear it. Sound waves use the the air to travel and are unable to travel in the vaccum of space. Therefore you would not hear anything at all.
2007-02-04 05:03:44 · answer #3 · answered by frank w 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No you could not be heard in space as sound waves do not travel in vacuum or u could be geard if you were in spaceship rocket or some other thing which had matter
2007-02-04 07:02:06 · answer #4 · answered by 788 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes and no. Space is a vacuum (or close enough). Sound is waves in matter. No matter ==> no sound.
However, you YOURSELF might hear it as the sound travels through your own body.
2007-02-04 04:55:13 · answer #5 · answered by Curt Monash 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nope... there is no air in space, meaning the sound waves will bounce off nothing and it won't go to your ears.
Please don't go to space and do it, you will die in 15-20 seconds :(
2007-02-04 04:54:47 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sound cannot travel in space .It requires a medium to travel.
2007-02-04 05:47:37 · answer #7 · answered by ⇐DâV£ MaΧiMiÅnO⇒ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, there is no medium for the sound waves to travel through so it cant travel through anything so u can hear it, so in conclusion no
2007-02-04 04:54:09 · answer #8 · answered by Linds 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no, sound cannot travel in a vacuum...sound needs a medium to travel through.
2007-02-04 06:02:39 · answer #9 · answered by DavidausZueri 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. there's nothing for vibrations to pass through.
2007-02-04 04:59:15 · answer #10 · answered by I-L3-KIT-TENS 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋