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| maddog67 |
 Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 7:33 pm Post subject: talking in space |
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i was wondering if i went into the vacume of space with my lungs full of air and tryed to talk,would it make a sound.
if i put a microphone at different intervuls than would any of them be able to hear me like if one was right in front of me and one was a metre and one a kilometre away wich one would hear me the loudest and would the sound travel.
i am just curious have u ever had a thought come into your head and was unsure of it because this is one of those thoughts and if u could answer it i would appreciate it thank you.
some1 got into honors science in grade 9 yey.
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| JaneBennet |
| Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 7:52 pm Post subject: |
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| UKDutyPaid |
| Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 9:37 am Post subject: |
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However, is it not feasible that the expelled air could create some vibration on the microphones when it impacts? Could that not, technically, be called sound?
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| JaneBennet |
| Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 10:07 am Post subject: |
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Maybe. But not all sounds are produced by ejecting air though. In any case, if any sound is produced at all, you’ll need to have headphones plugged in the amplifier to hear anything. The transmission of the sound will have to be entirely via solid media – including your flesh and bones.
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| UKDutyPaid |
| Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 10:20 am Post subject: |
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True, but the OP just asked if it would make a sound, not whether someone would actually hear it. 
Besides, if you are using mics, that suggests someone is plugged in and listening. |
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| maddog67 |
| Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 1:48 pm Post subject: |
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great thx for the help.
it gets realy anoying when you get a thought on your mind with no answer
just a theory and no way of knowing if it is right.
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| Dishmaster |
| Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 4:32 am Post subject: Re: talking in space |
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| maddog67 wrote: |
| i was wondering if i went into the vacume of space with my lungs full of air and tryed to talk,would it make a sound. |
Your lungs would explode, before you can even make a peep. |
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| SuperNatendo |
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so, if you equipped a speaker in the wide end of a cone with compressed air, had the speaker making sounds, setup a microphone in line of sight to the cone, pushed the cone toward the mic, then cut a hole in the narrow end of the cone, would the microphone outside of the cone hear any sound produced by the speaker that was inside the cone? I'm guessing during thee trip in free space the air would vibrate longer than on earth, but I doubt the sound would be the same by the time it made it to the microphone.
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| Twixly |
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I just want to add that there cant be big banging noises and cool fires like in the movies. They both require air.  |
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