you are correct, this is how satellites pick up the sounds of Saturn and Jupiter.

You are confusing minute vibrations from sparse matter than could potentialy be detected by scientific intruments as sound.

This is no-where near any audible Frequency or decibel range. Sorry.....

That is still sound Regardless if it's audible to us or not

technically yes sound can travel through space so long as there is matter that vibrates, but it does not do this well at all, and humans are unable to hear any noise that travels through space... sound travels better through thicker mediums ie. underwater you can hear taping from very long distances (although most sound under water seems to come from all around you and is often very difficult to determine what it is but this is only because our ears were adapted to pick up sound traveling through air)


(also fullarcfg just because it is not audible does not mean it is not sound... look at a very high pitched whistle that humans cannot hear but dogs can that is something non audible to humans but still classified as sound, you can also think of light... infrared can only be detected with scientific instruments however it is still light)

Sound is vibration, which requires a gas, solid, or liquid to travel through. Space is a vacuum. Have you not seen an experiment where a alarm clock is put into a glass bell vacuum? No sound reaches the sides of the glass bell.

and iirc, space is not a perfect vacuum. as i mentioned before i believe helium makes it into space which would therefore provide a gas.

It is only sound according to you. The rest of the world has a different opinion.

Sound: a mechanical wave that is an oscillation of pressure transmitted through a solid, liquid, or gas, composed of frequencies within the range of hearing and of a level sufficiently strong to be heard, or the sensation stimulated in organs of hearing by such vibrations.


There is no such thing as a perfect Vacuum except by definition. Space is as close to a perfect vacuum as will ever be witnessed. and matter is too far spread to transmitt any relavent oscillation in regard to sound waves.

Outer space is the closest natural approximation of a perfect vacuum. It has effectively no friction, allowing stars, planets and moons to move freely along their ideal orbits. However, even in the deep vacuum of intergalactic space there are still a few hydrogen atoms per cubic meter. By comparison, the air we breathe contains about 1025 molecules per cubic meter. The probable lowest observed density of space in a galactic spiral arm is 1 hydrogen atom every 16 cubic centimetres.

To Try and put this into a perspective you might relate to, YOU have more gravitational influence on the Suns rotation, than there is "Sound" created by the constant Nuclear reactions occuring on the Sun. You hear thunder many seconds after seeing lightning, but have you ever heard the Sun?

actually there are many things in space

like space drugs and sounds

OP is either dumb as fuck or a troll
can't decide

well im not a troll, so apparently im dumb as fuck thanks bro, also thanks for providing no evidence that your not dumb as fuck like me

thanks to everyone, i think i got it

This post was edited by P_Pepa on Jun 10 2011 03:56pm