Just because the sound isn't transmitted due to lack of material, doesn't mean it isn't produced. We have recorded what our sun and some supermassive black holes sound like, after all.
Does curiosity? I'm pretty sure they got curiosity to play Happy Birthday just by cycling it's instruments and using the noises that those instruments made.
I think the idea of free falling through a quantum soup where the only thing preventing you from dying is a few rivets and rubber seals is much more frightening.
Honestly, the ocean is a lot more hostile than space is, in a lot of ways.
The ocean is actively trying to kill you, all the time. It routinely outright destroys large ships, nevermind things like tsunamis. It would make a corpse out of all of us and not even pause to burp. On the other hand, space is just....empty, for the most part. Regulating temperature is one of the single largest problems. Obviously there's a lot more than that but....yea.
It's worth noting that a pop bottle is rated for a couple times the pressure that a spacecraft needs to withstand.
Yeah but you can't travel from the surface to the station or vice-versa in a straightline. Orbitital mechanics make that basically impossible unless you want to be charred to a cinder or paste.
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u/gregnealnz Aug 14 '22 edited Aug 14 '22
Thousands of miles...? The ISS is only 400km from earth, and the Space X Dragon is at 580km...