Submitted 6 months ago by xia@lemmy.sdf.org to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
This reminds me of a very dumb column I read a long time ago about moon mining.
Wouldn’t it be terrible to mine the moon? You would look up and see dust clouds covering it. All the natural ecosystem being ripped up for pit mines. It’d be awful.
If you said “that’s not how things would work on the moon”, congratulations, you know more about how space works than the author.
This feels very weird to read.
Kind of like a fish saying nobody can live on land…
Space is really close to empty, but it’s not empty.
If something evolved to live in space, it would have ridiculously sensitive hearing to compensate.
In 2022, NASA released a spectacular example of sound in space. It used X-ray data to make an audible recording that represents the way a massive black hole stirs up plasma in the Perseus galaxy cluster, 250 million light years from Earth. The black hole itself emits no sound, but the diffuse plasma around it carries very long wavelength sound waves.
The natural sound is far too low a frequency for the human ear to hear, 57 octaves below middle C, which is the middle note on a piano and in the middle of the range of sound people can hear. But after raising the frequency to the audible range, the result is chilling – it’s the sound of a black hole growling in deep space.
astronomy.com/…/is-there-any-sound-in-space-an-as…
Just because humans can’t hear construction noise in space, doesn’t mean it won’t piss of the neighbors
That sounds like the basis for some kick-ass sci-fi.
itkovian@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Or your farts.
xia@lemmy.sdf.org 6 months ago
He’s out of line, but he’s right