Quote from: StrangeShape on May 18, 2016, 05:16:08 PM
Guys, im fine with 1200 km since the alien universe is quite a science bender. Sound in space anyone? Breathable Fury?
But why accept it when it's so easily fixed (and was fixed like 20 years ago)? It's not like the 1200km thing actually serves a plot purpose or is used for narrative effect in any way, it's an honest-to-god mistake made by a scriptwriter without a scientific background (hell, the original 'Alien' script draft had the planet at 120km
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By sound in space I take it you mean the Nostromo exploding? That's used for dramatic effect (and the movie came out two years after Star Wars). Faster-than-light travel and artificial gravity are also nonsense concepts, but they're likewise used for storytelling purposes.
The impossibly small size of LV-426, on the other hand, isn't.
It begs the question, why accept the number just because a character speaks it, especially when that number is contradicted by on-screen evidence and basic common sense, and is so easily fixed?
Also what did you mean by "breathable fury"?
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But I've seen some sources say there's sound in space. You can even check out recordings of noises on youtube.
However, I don't know if we'd actually hear an explosion in space.
There's "sound" in the form of radio wave transmissions, since radio waves are just another part of the non-visible light spectrum. If the explosion has any output in the radio frequency range, you could conceivably "hear" it with a receiver.
But hearing sound in the conventional sense of actual molecules vibrating? No, we wouldn't hear that.
Shit, if you really wanted an explanation for the Nostromo's explosion sound, you could handwave it as literally being the Narcissus' radio receiver picking up the radio frequency waves caused by the blast.