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"Now, you can shout through a vacuum." In an alternate universe, investigative journalists reveal that this research was secretly funded by George Lucas to dis

"Now, you can shout through a vacuum." In an alternate universe, investigative journalists reveal that this research was secretly funded by George Lucas to disprove all the naysayers who said the Death Star explosion wouldn't have made any noise.

alpaca128 7y ago
If I'm not mistaken the (first) Death Star's explosion isn't heard over the background music, right? Anyway, I think more people would have issues with TIE fighter sounds and their Doppler effect...ah, I mean quantum leap sound.
- FeepingCreature 7y ago
  Headcanon: there's a detailed audio library and specification for events in space maintained by the Space Sound Simulation Consortium (S3C) on Coruscant that defines a universal standard for how to render sensor readings as noise. Audio is a high-bandwidth data channel built into the human brain, there's no way military craft would not take advantage of it to convey information to the pilot. (Such as whether enemy ships are flying towards or away from you...)
- ladyattis 7y ago
  No there was an explosion sound but it more of a generic thundercrack kind of muffled sound.
- shantly 7y ago
  You could hear it IIRC. The soundtrack was relatively muted, building up tension before the explosion (mostly some lightish kettle drum I think? "Stand by" Bum bum, bum "Stand by" [exterior shot] BOOM) and even after is mostly a kind of light tinkly thing, no bombast.
- ShamelessC 7y ago
  You can hear it in this clip. Not sure if this is the original 1977 version or if they've changed it since then though. https://youtu.be/qniy8aDSFLA?t=29 https://youtu.be/qniy8aDSFLA?t=29
gus_massa 7y ago
>> Now, you can shout through a vacuum. The volume of the sound decays exponentially, so you can hear anything unless you are very close like the membranes in this experiment (0.0004 millimeters = 0.00016 inches = 2 small virus). If you can hear the sound of the Death Star though vacuum, you are going to crash very soon (specially when it is exploding).

alpaca128 7y ago

If I'm not mistaken the (first) Death Star's explosion isn't heard over the background music, right? Anyway, I think more people would have issues with TIE fighter sounds and their Doppler effect...ah, I mean quantum leap sound.

FeepingCreature 7y ago
Headcanon: there's a detailed audio library and specification for events in space maintained by the Space Sound Simulation Consortium (S3C) on Coruscant that defines a universal standard for how to render sensor readings as noise. Audio is a high-bandwidth data channel built into the human brain, there's no way military craft would not take advantage of it to convey information to the pilot. (Such as whether enemy ships are flying towards or away from you...)
ladyattis 7y ago
No there was an explosion sound but it more of a generic thundercrack kind of muffled sound.
shantly 7y ago
You could hear it IIRC. The soundtrack was relatively muted, building up tension before the explosion (mostly some lightish kettle drum I think? "Stand by" Bum bum, bum "Stand by" [exterior shot] BOOM) and even after is mostly a kind of light tinkly thing, no bombast.
ShamelessC 7y ago
You can hear it in this clip. Not sure if this is the original 1977 version or if they've changed it since then though. https://youtu.be/qniy8aDSFLA?t=29 https://youtu.be/qniy8aDSFLA?t=29

gus_massa 7y ago

>> Now, you can shout through a vacuum. The volume of the sound decays exponentially, so you can hear anything unless you are very close like the membranes in this experiment (0.0004 millimeters = 0.00016 inches = 2 small virus). If you can hear the sound of the Death Star though vacuum, you are going to crash very soon (specially when it is exploding).