#I can hear this image
I scrolled slow and mentally imagined it.
Ah, so this isn’t tinnitus, I can actually hear the sun!
That or you’re standing next to a jackhammer.
Oh hey, thanks! Been hearing it for years, turns out I just never look left!
I wish they’d give me my driver’s license back…
I imagine it would be kind of like the hypnotoad sound
Obey the giant burning floating orb
All hail Almighty Ra!
!aom@lemm.ee leaking
Nah my mind went to Stargate
I’ll admit I’ve never watched Stargate, but I thought it was scifi? I didn’t realise it engaged with Egyptian mythology.
It heavily features a race of creatures that have posed as gods throughout most of human history, so it touches on almost all the mythologies. Egyptian mythology features very heavily, with Ra being the first of this alien race that the series engages with.
It does. We can’t hear it, but it does.
Just one small hitch: if there was an atmosphere in space dense enough to carry sound, the earth would burn up in minutes.
First time I saw the North Lights in person I also expected something other than complete silence. I don’t know what, but they’re so surreal and massive I thought you’d hear something.
I expected to hear MF DOOM’s Accordion
Evolution would say: nope. And the surviving class would be deaf. No one is able to accept a permanent jackhammer.
Evolution might just block out certain frequencies. No need to go completely deaf.
Like the frequency dying plants make? Makes sense. Looks like evolution could already did this in the past.
I’m sorry what the fuck now
alright that’s it, I’m never eating plant based food again.
What… What’s let to eat then?
meat, exclusively
Noone would live for longer than a few weeks after the sun went out.
Nah, I’m different tho
so, someone did the math on that?
no vacuum, that means atmosphere. so lets say 1 atmospheric pressure the whole way.
which would be sad, because rain, clouds, ozone layer and countless other atmospheric phenomen would be impossible. so no life on the planet anyway.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_attenuation
how loud is the sun? does anybody know? what is the acoustic pressure on a certain orbit near the sun, iof there is atmosphere?
so, the acoustic presssure needs to reach earth. it needs to travel 13 years.
overcoming this much atmosphere between sun and earth eats energy, since there is a resistance. because there is an atmosphere, see? thats why sound gets softer and softer, the more away you are from the source.
so I guess the whole idea is bullshit.
but i am just a construction worker, maybe someone else will do the math.
i doubt any light rays would make it here. it would be pitch black dark.
the light would be scattered by the atmosphere.
the vaccum does not block sound. it just doesnt transmit it. there is nothing what can block.
same as vacuum does not suck. never. the key is pressure differential, the higher pressure dictates what will happen, not the lower pressure.
This seems like bullshit to me. I don’t think the noise level of the sun is something we have solid data on
I traced down this loud sun theory, and it comes from a post from reddit of a guy who did the maths and obtained a volume level of 100dBA, although with one bold assumption, which is that the sound of the sun would propagate just as well as its light, which would absolutely not be true if there was an atmosphere between the sun and the earth. This reddit post has then been cited in a few articles. Sauce for anyone interested https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/33xuxu/comment/cqpsap8/
The sun apparently vibrates, but at frequencies too low to hear anyway. https://www.nasa.gov/solar-system/sounds-of-the-sun/
You wouldn’t, of course. Hearing, the way we hear, in such an environment would be useless. We wouldn’t have evolved that. This is like saying “ultraviolet radiation from the sun would be everywhere, all the time, can you imagine?” It is everywhere all the time, but as such it isn’t a useful sense to possess, so we don’t.
This also makes some very weird assumptions about what the sound would be like. If space were a medium sound could travel through then it would–like all mediums capable of carrying a sound wave–alter the wave in many ways. Intensity, frequency, etc. But since we don’t know what kind of medium that would be, and since the comment doesn’t posit any particular medium, we don’t know what the sound would sound like or even how loud it would be.
