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From: ran@bentley.UUCP (RA Novo)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: WHHHHOOOOSSSSHHHH!!!!
Message-ID: <555@bentley.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 6-Aug-85 09:15:52 EDT
Article-I.D.: bentley.555
Posted: Tue Aug  6 09:15:52 1985
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Piscataway
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> 
>    Okay everyone, here's a challenge. Everybody knows
> sound doesn't travel through space and therefore
> outside space scenes shouldn't make any noise, but we
> all have seen scenes from sci-fi where the spacecraft
> makes a whooshing noise as they go by. My challenge to
> you is this...
>       Has anyone seen a space scene in Star Trek 
>       where they have noise? I haven't. 
> 		      Steve Lau
> 		      UCSD Academic Computing Center
>                    ...!ucbvax!sdcsvax!sdcc3!sdcc6!ix925
>
 True, sound doesn't carry in space so you can't hear a whoosh as the
Enterprise goes by, but then again what business do you have being in 
a vacuum where you can't breathe? In that case, the intro to Star Trek
should be a blank screen with credits. And don't tell me that this is being
watched from some nearby class M atmosphere, because then I can say that a
starship of that size passing by so closely is bound to cause some vibration.

-- 

Robert A. Novo				"Captain! They put creatures
AT&T Bell Labs				 in our ears! They made us say
Piscataway, NJ                           things that weren't true!"
...bentley!ran