- Samsy ( @Samsy@lemmy.ml ) English22•11 days ago
Evolution would say: nope. And the surviving class would be deaf. No one is able to accept a permanent jackhammer.
- dQw4w9WgXcQ ( @dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee ) English30•11 days ago
Evolution might just block out certain frequencies. No need to go completely deaf.
- Samsy ( @Samsy@lemmy.ml ) English19•11 days ago
Like the frequency dying plants make? Makes sense. Looks like evolution could already did this in the past.
- pfm ( @pfm@scribe.disroot.org ) English7•11 days ago
Thanks for making me aware 🙇
- KillingTimeItself ( @KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English19•11 days ago
the sheer scale of the universe makes me want to get into astronomy.
- Presently42 ( @Presently42@lemmy.ca ) English6•11 days ago
Do it! It’s a fantastic science, with ever expanding horizons! That being said, if working in the field is a bit too much, amateur astronomy is a fabulous and friendly hobby - if a bit expensive
- ShaggySnacks ( @ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one ) English7•11 days ago
It’s a fantastic science, with ever expanding horizons!
Pun appreciated.
- OutlierBlue ( @OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca ) English3•10 days ago
That’s a stellar joke.
- ShaggySnacks ( @ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one ) English2•10 days ago
It’s out of this world funny.
- KillingTimeItself ( @KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English1•10 days ago
it does sound like a fascinating field, but im not sure there’s much in it for me outside of a hobby. I guess i need to look into what the field actually does lol.
- variants ( @variants@possumpat.io ) English7•11 days ago
If it takes 13 years for sound how long would it take for us to reach the sun on a rocket
- OldWoodFrame ( @OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee ) English21•11 days ago
We can go faster than sound that’s what a sonic boom is.
- Elise ( @xilliah@beehaw.org ) English7•11 days ago
Interesting question.
You’d have to cancel out the sideway movement of the earth, and it’s going roughly 85000km an hour.
Once you cancel that out, you’ll simply fall down to the sun. But you’d need a very powerful rocket. It’s way easier to get to mars, as comparison.
It’s more realistic to do gravity assists from venus and other bodies, and in that case it’d take years. Just a rough guesstimate would be 10 years I guess? But maybe you’d have to even sling past jupiter or something to really slow down, so then it might be decades.
- itslilith ( @itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English10•11 days ago
If the planets line up correctly, you can do it in way less, like 4 or 5 months. I’d need to get some orbital calculations out for the whole thing
But simplest case, you lower your perihel to Venus orbit, that’ll take you less than half a year. With a perfect gravity assist you can then head straight for the sun at more than orbital speed, accelerating as you go. Free fall time is a fraction of orbit time, and you’re going in with a high initial velocity, so a month or two more, max. That’s 6-9 months total, but it’ll be faster with more Δv
- pearsaltchocolatebar ( @pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online ) English11•11 days ago
Found the KSP player
- itslilith ( @itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English5•11 days ago
Easy to spot, huh
- Elise ( @xilliah@beehaw.org ) English2•10 days ago
You sound like a modern shaman
- itslilith ( @itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English2•10 days ago
I’ll take that as a compliment :D
As the other person called out, it’s the KSP experience coming in clutch
- variants ( @variants@possumpat.io ) English6•11 days ago
Wow I didn’t think it’d be that complicated haha, I imagined we’d just swirl towards it like going down thr toilet
- Elise ( @xilliah@beehaw.org ) English2•10 days ago
Sometimes I wish the earth did that
- don ( @don@lemm.ee ) English4•11 days ago
That’s funteresting to think about.
- powerofm ( @powerofm@lemmy.ca ) English3•10 days ago
First time I saw the North Lights in person I also expected something other than complete silence. I don’t know what, but they’re so surreal and massive I thought you’d hear something.
- addictedtochaos ( @addictedtochaos@lemm.ee ) English3•10 days ago
so, someone did the math on that?
no vacuum, that means atmosphere. so lets say 1 atmospheric pressure the whole way.
which would be sad, because rain, clouds, ozone layer and countless other atmospheric phenomen would be impossible. so no life on the planet anyway.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_attenuation
how loud is the sun? does anybody know? what is the acoustic pressure on a certain orbit near the sun, iof there is atmosphere?
so, the acoustic presssure needs to reach earth. it needs to travel 13 years.
overcoming this much atmosphere between sun and earth eats energy, since there is a resistance. because there is an atmosphere, see? thats why sound gets softer and softer, the more away you are from the source.
so I guess the whole idea is bullshit.
but i am just a construction worker, maybe someone else will do the math.
i doubt any light rays would make it here. it would be pitch black dark.
the light would be scattered by the atmosphere.
the vaccum does not block sound. it just doesnt transmit it. there is nothing what can block.
same as vacuum does not suck. never. the key is pressure differential, the higher pressure dictates what will happen, not the lower pressure.
- Elise ( @xilliah@beehaw.org ) English2•11 days ago
Dang, we’d have to wear ear protection all day!
- infinite_ass ( @infinite_ass@leminal.space ) English1•10 days ago
Probably be a big roar. Like hurricane wind.