• IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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        Spaceships do make sounds … inside the spaceship

        Everything else on the outside is dead quiet

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          In the Star Wars novels (IIRC this was established as early as ANH) sounds are generated by the computer to help you keep track of ships around you.

          • Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            Yeah that’s a common justification it seems. Elite: dangerous also has the same one. When your canopy gets blown off it actually stops the sounds too (and there’s a giant hole in your HUD because it’s also responsible for that)

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              Elite handled its hard sci-fi really well. I was never taken out of the immersion due to lore or believability.

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            Well, that would be a god-level acoustic set.

            There was a fan explanation (which I maybe saw somewhere in novels), that they sort of listen to some band in the clear like analog radio (in situations where binary-encoded communication is not available), and that working engines and shooting blasters make lots of interference there. Filtered enough to save the pilot’s hearing and sanity.

            I mean, that’s similar to what you said, just better IMHO, cause sounds are not “generated”, but derived from signals around.

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                In the EU that’s a few days or weeks. As if in the movies that time were just skipped.

                And doesn’t contradict too much how it’s shown in the movies, if it seems like more than an hour or two before they jump to hyperspace, and in hyperspace there’s enough time for lightsaber training, then maybe it’s a few days.

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                    Disney made a point of building an original Star Wars plagiarism based on the majority stereotypes, as opposed to fan stereotypes. So where the common stereotype and the fan stereotype would diverge, they deliberately chose the common one. Like the whole thing being about space wizards and pew-pew.

                    I think sometimes that maybe the “second generation”, after the original creators get old or full of fans’ shit, is usually not very talented, so all it does is grab money and take revenge.

                    I wonder sometimes if in the framework of that logic all KK was doing was taking revenge on Star Wars fans for upsetting George, and similarly all Sergey Brin, Mark Zuckerberg and such were doing was collect power based on what Sun Microsystems mastodons and Unix fathers and such have done, and take revenge on the wide populace which didn’t value it all.

                    As in - your typical fan of it all blames MS, Google and such for the way tech became shitty, while the tech bosses blame the populace for choosing shitty and making the good companies bankrupt, and think they are humiliating that populace deservedly. Similar with Disney Star Wars.

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            You don’t even need the ship to have active acoustics, just that the other ships whizzing by using “insert sci-fi techno babble force here” affect space and matter around them in such a way that energy waves from that sci-fi force moving silently through the vacuum and turn into sound when they interact with the technology/structure of your own ship or spacesuit. Like a microwave generating sparks and a crackling noise across metal foil.

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        Ok, most trivial and naive one: the listener doesn’t fly in space with their ass naked. The listener is in the spacesuit, or ship, or something. And that suit detects other emissions (light for example). And then translated it to the sound for convenience. For easier orientation. I heard that even electric cars have a special sound emitter for pedestrians. Or those cars would be too quiet and dangerous.