What do ships SOUND like?
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Arthur Denger
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Well according to George Lucas now they all sound like misfiring lawnmowers. </font>[/QUOTE]
http://visionforgestudios.com/jesse/traveller/movies/
You're likely to want to use the second one. Please excuse the somewhat cheesy sound effect. I couldn't find my sound efx cd's, so I improvised by recording fan noise from one of our racks at work and pitch shifting down somewhat...
Jesse
You're likely to want to use the second one. Please excuse the somewhat cheesy sound effect. I couldn't find my sound efx cd's, so I improvised by recording fan noise from one of our racks at work and pitch shifting down somewhat...
Jesse
I figured he was just kiding around, but I suppose he's 'technically' correct, by the definition given. 300 kps is pretty darn fast, tho; sound thru something like iron is around 5 times faster than sound thru air (iirc), which is around 300 mps (iirc).
Anyhoo...
If you're talking about external sounds, I'd go for a quiet whooshing sound, getting louder as you have to go faster thru the air. The sound of the air will get louder as you go faster of course; imagine being in a quiet car and listening to the air sounds. Rolling down the windows messes it up, but you might be able to make do by rolling them down all the way, and not driving too fast.
Inside, the sound of air conditioning. Air is CONSTANTLY blowing thru metal ductwork, so you could probably go to the furnace room of a building to get an idea, or most houses have central heat and air that's loud enough. I would imagine a luxury ship would dampen this sound some.
Engine sounds.... well, reactionless drives kind of vibrate you to your core without letting you actually hear anything. That's the reason starports don't let people wander out into the fields when ships are operating, and why ships don't land directly in berth-slots; they're towed to and from their berths and the landing zone. Reproducing that over speakers is nigh impossible, and probably as unpleasant for the viewers as smell-o-vision would be (but in a different way).
Anyhoo...
If you're talking about external sounds, I'd go for a quiet whooshing sound, getting louder as you have to go faster thru the air. The sound of the air will get louder as you go faster of course; imagine being in a quiet car and listening to the air sounds. Rolling down the windows messes it up, but you might be able to make do by rolling them down all the way, and not driving too fast.
Inside, the sound of air conditioning. Air is CONSTANTLY blowing thru metal ductwork, so you could probably go to the furnace room of a building to get an idea, or most houses have central heat and air that's loud enough. I would imagine a luxury ship would dampen this sound some.
Engine sounds.... well, reactionless drives kind of vibrate you to your core without letting you actually hear anything. That's the reason starports don't let people wander out into the fields when ships are operating, and why ships don't land directly in berth-slots; they're towed to and from their berths and the landing zone. Reproducing that over speakers is nigh impossible, and probably as unpleasant for the viewers as smell-o-vision would be (but in a different way).
Arthur Denger
SOC-12
Excellent animation!
Soundtrack is pretty okay, too.
Andrew Boulton
The Adminator
Not bad for a beginner...
Andrew Boulton
The Adminator
Ahem...Originally posted by Arthur hault-Denger:
Seen stencilled on the stern of a well-oxidized Type-J: 'My other ship is a Fiery'
Arthur Denger
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Icosahedron
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Related queries to the original one:
What do grav vehicles sound like? rumble? whine?
What does it feel like when a grav vehicle passes overhead? Stomach leap? transitory weightlessness?
or maybe there is no sensation at all until everything goes dark and you look up
'in pained surprise as the concrete-hardened crust of a 500 tonne grav tank grinds you into the dust' (apologies to Benny Hill).
What do you think?
What do grav vehicles sound like? rumble? whine?
What does it feel like when a grav vehicle passes overhead? Stomach leap? transitory weightlessness?
or maybe there is no sensation at all until everything goes dark and you look up
'in pained surprise as the concrete-hardened crust of a 500 tonne grav tank grinds you into the dust' (apologies to Benny Hill).
What do you think?
Why I am suddenly hearing Pink Floyd running through my head....
Ahem, anyways! That's the general idea
This might help
My favorites are under: The Monster is Out.
Ganidirsii O'Flynn
SOC-12
Ok, briefly back to starship bumper stickers...
I did several years in the Army and the Good Ol'Boys have a large contingent therein. Now speaking as a guy from Washington State, I got sick to death of hearing all about how 'the South's gonna do it again' and other such nonsense from hillbillys who've never read history, other than that half not obsured by pigeon dung at their local park, and wouldn't know the ACW from the ACLU.
So I'm roaming the mall in Colorado Springs and I duck into a skate punk store (in my area they're called Zoomiez or Spencers) to get a tee-shirt and there right before my eyes was the greatest bumper-stick ever....
http://www.stickergiant.com/page/sg/PROD/br/j18
I wonder how that'd look with the Solomani Terra symbol...
I did several years in the Army and the Good Ol'Boys have a large contingent therein. Now speaking as a guy from Washington State, I got sick to death of hearing all about how 'the South's gonna do it again' and other such nonsense from hillbillys who've never read history, other than that half not obsured by pigeon dung at their local park, and wouldn't know the ACW from the ACLU.
So I'm roaming the mall in Colorado Springs and I duck into a skate punk store (in my area they're called Zoomiez or Spencers) to get a tee-shirt and there right before my eyes was the greatest bumper-stick ever....
http://www.stickergiant.com/page/sg/PROD/br/j18
I wonder how that'd look with the Solomani Terra symbol...
Liam Devlin
SOC-14 5K
Andrew--outstanding illustration!
One exception to the bumpersnickers there from the one we had on our S-class many, many moons ago
-- "Scout Brew Veteran aboard"
--"Imperials In Search of Intoxicanting Substances"
One exception to the bumpersnickers there from the one we had on our S-class many, many moons ago
-- "Scout Brew Veteran aboard"
--"Imperials In Search of Intoxicanting Substances"
Plankowner
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Huh? </font>[/QUOTE]I think several of us have that same feeling.
Plankowner - Any chance we can get some explanation? or should we all take this as a "lookup" and go googling? </font>[/QUOTE]I have been out with minor knee surgery, so just got back to be able to answer this.
There IS sound in space. Sound is created by particles bouncing off of each other (basically). In space, there is about 1 particle per Cubic Centimeter. It is essentially a vacuum, but not EXACTLY a vacuum.
NASA had to build most of it's outer system probes to exceed the Speed of Sound in Space. In a true vacuum, there would be no sound, but space is not a true vacuum, so there would be sound.
