What is: Rumble\SoundFX when Nearing Planet?

NewYears1978

NewYears1978
This is probably been asked before, and probably a dumb question, but:

What is the scientific reason or explanation of the rumble/sound you hear when you near a planet in it's orbit? Is it like when the gravitational pull takes "hold" of the ship so it creates the rumble..or something else entirely?
Have just always been curious.

I like the sound and rumble..just wondered if it had some science behind it or just added for effect.
 

Protoplasmic traveler

Protoplasmic traveler
I like to assume it is the effect of gravity stressing the superstructure, causing bulkheads to grind against each other and contract the hull as inertia, momentum and mass interact with each other
 

CMDR Holycow

CMDR Holycow
I think a small camera shake to mimic the planet's hold and twist on the ship would be incredible. The sound already makes me feel like i'm being pulled in.
 

Jumpin' Jack Flash

Jumpin' Jack Flash
Protoplasmic traveler said:
I like to assume it is the effect of gravity stressing the superstructure, causing bulkheads to grind against each other and contract the hull as inertia, momentum and mass interact with each other
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I like to imagine it's all the passengers unbalancing my Orca, as they rush to one side of the ship to peer outa the windows to have a look at the nearest planet, as we zip by to land on the orbiting station!
"Dammit!....get back to your seats ladies and gentlemen...and clip up your safety belts please!".....:rolleyes:....$%&**... tourists! :rolleyes:

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Jack :)
 

uberdude

Banned
uberdude
Yup, I love using planets as a brake when im coming in hot on a station in SC. the twisting and pulling alongside the rumbling really gives you an idea of the gravity of the situation.
 

INSTG8R

INSTG8R
Well I'm glad everyone is with me on this. I feel that the sound effect just isn't quite enough. I mean your fighting a planets gravity well. It should be bucking around a little.
 

NewYears1978

NewYears1978
Jumpin' Jack Flash said:
I like to imagine it's all the passengers unbalancing my Orca, as they rush to one side of the ship to peer outa the windows to have a look at the nearest planet, as we zip by to land on the orbiting station!
"Dammit!....get back to your seats ladies and gentlemen...and clip up your safety belts please!".....:rolleyes:....$%&**... tourists! :rolleyes:

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Jack :)
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Lol :) Funny picture in the mind that one.
 

Chip Patton

Chip Patton
NewYears1978 said:
This is probably been asked before, and probably a dumb question, but:

What is the scientific reason or explanation of the rumble/sound you hear when you near a planet in it's orbit? Is it like when the gravitational pull takes "hold" of the ship so it creates the rumble..or something else entirely?
Have just always been curious.

I like the sound and rumble..just wondered if it had some science behind it or just added for effect.
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Your frame shift drive (the reason it sounds like a mechanical grinder) is a drive the rapidly jumps through space-time in "frames" (the only scientific explanation that works) and thus, the more mass, the denser and more compressed space is, which is why you slow down when approaching mass, and thus, these massive objects should reverberate an "echo" of your drive which your engines send as shock-waves into your ship which you can hear through the atmosphere in your cockpit.

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Vasious said:
Well it is added for an effects to give spacial awareness, but Planets do have their own sounds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToXaNUjNfS4
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This would only explain noises from planets with a nearby star showering it with charged particles that discharge around the poles and create shockwaves and bounce around inside the magnetosphere. Sadly, in this game you can also hear these rumbles near planets with brown-dwarfs which give off virtually no charged particles. Example, Mars has no or very little magnetosphere, neither does our moon, and thus they are completely silent in radio listening devices.
 
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NewYears1978

NewYears1978
Chip Patton said:
Your frame shift drive (the reason it sounds like a mechanical grinder) is a drive the rapidly jumps through space-time in "frames" (the only scientific explanation that works) and thus, the more mass, the denser and more compressed space is, which is why you slow down when approaching mass, and thus, these massive objects should reverberate an "echo" of your drive which your engines send as shock-waves into your ship which you can hear through the atmosphere in your cockpit.
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Great explanation, thanks :)

Trondster said:
It is the Song of the Spheres. Ommmmmm.
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Lol.
 

Chip Patton

Chip Patton
NewYears1978 said:
Great explanation, thanks :)



Lol.
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Some people also ask why they can hear the explosions of near-by vessels in the void of space and the simple answer is because it is the void of space being filled by the atmosphere and debris of a compressed ship which would indeed create a shockwave that you could hear when it interacts with your hull. As far the only other thing you can hear is the roaring of other engines (which could be explained similarly) and the firing of other people's projectile weapons (again similarly explained and the reason it is highly muffled close by)
 

Bog

B
Indeed so, Chip. That's why someone huge blowing up *really close* still sounds muffled. The gases expand in all directions, almost uniformly.

Though it's funny how even the soft "crump!" of a bursting Sidey brings such a smile to my face...
 
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