Explain.
2007-04-18 09:53:11 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
No, it's impossible because sound doesn't travel through empty space. Sound waves need a medium to travel through (maybe if they were in a nebula...)
Dramatically, space movies would be very boring without the special sound effects so they take creative license.
2001: A Space Odyssey made up for a lot of this by using classical music to make up for realism, but was still a boring (though brilliant) movie.
2007-04-18 09:59:01 · answer #1 · answered by Vincent A 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is not enough matter in space for sound waves to be detectable. Even if there were enough matter , with the relative velocities of space travel, the ships will have collided or passed each other before the sound could reach them.
2007-04-18 10:08:20 · answer #2 · answered by Helmut 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Space is a virtual vacuum and sound waves do not travel in space, so the answer to your question is that you would not hear the sound coming from another spacecraft while in space.
2007-04-18 10:00:49 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Sound needs a medium to propagate through (air, water, metal, etc). There is no air in space. It's almost a total vacuum. Sound cannot travel in a vacuum.
2007-04-18 09:58:59 · answer #4 · answered by Jared Z 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, sound needs matter (such as air) as a medium to travel though, and therefore can't travel though the emptiness of space.
2007-04-18 09:59:39 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, its perfectly possible. The sound was dubbed on in the edit studio.
2007-04-18 09:57:35 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋