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This is really cool. > “In Star Trek you have shuttlecraft gliding silently past,” he says. “I thought, ‘We should have aircraft like that.’” It's a good sign
by prossercj 8y ago
This is really cool.
> “In Star Trek you have shuttlecraft gliding silently past,” he says. “I thought, ‘We should have aircraft like that.’”
It's a good sign when inspiration comes from Star Trek.
Edit: Also, reminds me of this: https://xkcd.com/2072/ https://xkcd.com/2072/
- comboy 8y agoBeing separated by vacuum sure helps to keep these shuttlecraft silent though.
- Kye 8y agoI'm glad every scifi movie and TV show's sound designers decide to ignore reality and make it interesting. It wouldn't be the same without the whoosh and rumble.
- PhasmaFelis 8y agoI feel like a space battle that cuts back and forth between tense, Red October-style bridge scenes, and ships exploding in fire and chaos and absolute silence, would be pretty awesome.
- saalweachter 8y agoThat's actually pretty common in modern scifi. Mind you, I can't name one I'm certain of off the top of my head, but a lot of people like to get space explosions "right".
- rustybelt 8y agoI believe "The Expanse" does this to pretty great effect.
- ceejayoz 8y agoThe Expanse has engine/gun/explosion noise on most exterior shots. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sax5tURLTrw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sax5tURLTrw
- BHSPitMonkey 8y ago2001: A Space Odyssey and Firefly both come to mind.
- shaunpersad 8y agoBattlestar Galactica (the remake)
- adriand 8y agoGravity did it really well.
- shpx 8y agoThe scene in Interstellar (spoiler) where Doctor Mann gives his speech. (spoiler) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKaydrJJUD0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKaydrJJUD0
- King-Aaron 8y agoFirefly
- andrewflnr 8y agoA silent explosion in deep space, a perfect sphere of white light. Cut to the claustrophobic bridge, where the faint whine of fans is interrupted by the sound of the debris field hitting the hull.
- BerislavLopac 8y agoI have a solid, realistic explanation why you can hear other spacecraft and explosions in movies like Star Wars! ^_^
- godelski 8y agoBecause there's no such thing as a perfect vacuum? Because when there's an explosion there's also an expanding medium that sounds can travel through?
- Kye 8y agoI was going to say synesthesia. I'm not sure I heard every ship I remember having sound.
- cevn 8y agoIs it true that there's no such thing as a perfect vacuum? How much 'stuff' is in vacuum on average to make it impure? Sorry if these are stupid questions.
- NikolaeVarius 8y agohttp://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1968PASJ...20..230T http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1968PASJ...20..230T A few atoms per cubic meter, but yeah, no real thing as a perfect vacuum.
- gpm 8y agoI suggest AR - why would ship designers neglect an entire input channel to the humans in control?
- trentlott 8y agoI mean, it would be a hell of a benefit if you can hear a ship explode behind you while you look at the the one in front of you or at a screen If you don't have that, you're a little more limited to relying on visual information for everything
- imron 8y ago> I'm glad every scifi movie and TV show's sound designers decide to ignore reality and make it interesting. Not every movie and TV show. You are right though that that it wouldn't be the same. R.I.P Firefly.
- infogulch 8y agoThat xkcd fits my daily experience on HN extemely well.
- Shivetya 8y agoWould it be all that silent at traditional airplane speeds? Also I wonder if you ran it like the old pulse jets if it would easier to keep one aloft.