General / Off-Topic NASA recorded sounds in space!

Nikonthenet · May 26, 2015

While we wait for 1.3 to touchdown, this can soak up a few moments of your time

Heres some sounds NASA recorded using some wizardry I have no idea about.

Compare them to Frontiers space sounds and there very similar. Good job FD!

http://www.hellou.co.uk/2015/05/nasa-recorded-sound-space-beautiful-46272/

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Does this work?

[video=youtube;-MmWeZHsQzs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=252&v=-MmWeZHsQzs[/video]

PhazonAran · May 26, 2015

They've been doing that for years. Still cool as hell.

Petersen · May 26, 2015

I have a very hard time accepting electromagnetic vibrations as 'sound' in anything but the most technical and rigorous definition of the word.

PhazonAran · May 26, 2015

Petersen said:
I have a very hard time accepting electromagnetic vibrations as 'sound' in anything but the most technical and rigorous definition of the word.

It is not. They record the electromagnetic signature, pass it through the appropriate filter (the filter being the wizardry mentionned in the OP) and deliver the signal to a speaker.

Nikonthenet · May 26, 2015

Petersen said:
I have a very hard time accepting electromagnetic vibrations as 'sound' in anything but the most technical and rigorous definition of the word.

Recently had this argument with my flatmate!

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CMDR Ross said:
The sound guys on FD don't get enough credit. Awesome

So true! I have said it before and will say it again...the sound and atmosphere created by it in ED is astonishing. My favourite part of the game by a good margin(tho I hope 1.3 will reduce that margin!)

Nara · May 26, 2015

I thought these sounds in game were just for atmosphere. Amazing to think they are based partially on reality.

One of my favourite moments so far was when I was exploring and decided to park up in the ring of a brown dwarf and turn most of my systems off and just sit and listen. That experience seems even better now

edit: Uranus sounds like an airport

Dronlothen · May 29, 2015

Would this make something like an explosion actually audible in a vacuum?
I'd imagine the death star would make some "noise" but i wonder if a sidewinder would.

Defacto · May 29, 2015

Dronlothen said:
Would this make something like an explosion actually audible in a vacuum?
I'd imagine the death star would make some "noise" but i wonder if a sidewinder would.

Not more ''audible'' than seeing light.

Also, the sounds of space thing is not ''recordings by NASA'', they are artistic interpretations of recordings made by NASA that really are not very similar to this.

Patrick_68000 · May 29, 2015

Defacto said:
Not more ''audible'' than seeing light.

Also, the sounds of space thing is not ''recordings by NASA'', they are artistic interpretations of recordings made by NASA that really are not very similar to this.

Yes nobody can hear you scream in the space