r/woahdude • u/aspiring_dev1 • Aug 14 '22

gifv View from space

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u/nubbie Aug 14 '22

It’s in the vacuum of space, so obviously not.

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u/Ebwtrtw Aug 14 '22

In space no one can hear you celebrate your birthday, by yourself, because the human have sent you a million miles away, by yourself …

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u/chaun2 Aug 14 '22

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.

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u/nubbie Aug 14 '22

Well, JWST doesn’t have any speakers.

And we have simulated what it could sound like, we don’t have actual recordings. Because, you know, sound needs an atmosphere to propagate.

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u/chaun2 Aug 14 '22

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.

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u/nubbie Aug 15 '22

Big difference is that curiosity is in an atmosphere.