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Squalia t1_j4z2wup wrote

If it did it would be about as loud as the quietest place on earth. Increasing the distance and going to space would only decrease the volume. That being said, if sound did travel through space you wouldn't be able to hear much over the deafening sound of the sun.

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Youria_Tv_Officiel t1_j4z2a47 wrote

You'd think you'd hear that from earth wouldn't you...

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PowerfulLine5057 t1_j4z44sp wrote

Depends on the frequency, no?

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Youria_Tv_Officiel t1_j4z5zrz wrote

Yes, and if whatever noise the earth produces isn't audible at ground level there is no reason it'd become so once in space

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mavric91 t1_j4z3emp wrote

So I think the real question your asking here is if sound could make it all the way to the top of our atmosphere? If space suddenly had the ability to transmit sound, that sound would first have to travel through our atmosphere to reach space, or the atmosphere itself would need to make sound to transmit to space.

Assuming the atmosphere still thins with altitude before it reaches “magical sound transmitting space,” then the atmosphere itself won’t be able to carry sound that high. At a certain point, the air will be so thin that sound just won’t be transmitted through it effectively, and even though sound can travel through it, it won’t travel very far. By the same logic, that thin outer boundary of atmosphere won’t be able to efficiently transmit sound into magical sound space.

You could imagine that the atmosphere itself would make noise to. Wind and atmospheric phenomena all over the earth would make a ton of noise. But again, the thinning of the atmosphere would largely contain this to earth.

Basically, sound would travel far for the same reason it doesn’t travel at all in a vacuum, there isn’t enough (or any) physical medium to put that sound out into space at the edge of our atmosphere.

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Climhazrd t1_j4z6k9w wrote

And to add to this. Let's say we remove the thinning atmosphere issue cause the less medium issue is exactly light why we can't hear anything in space. So sound travels as far as it's gonna go no matter what or how much it's going thru.

Sound doesn't just go forever like light does. It has a finite distance before it's undetectable. So with the thin atmosphere and space issues removed, would you say hear rush hour in LA from space? No you wouldn't. Could you hear Krakatoa erupt? Maybe, but surely not beyond the moon and I think that's being generous.

But I think the biggest thing here, in my scenario we wouldn't hear a GODDAMN THING ON EARTH! The sun would be so loud it would be the only thing we would ever hear. In fact if this was the case life most likely wouldn't have evolved hearing cause what's the point.

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gothlaw t1_j4z1nep wrote

The planets do emit sound, in the sense that you can translate the EM signals and radio wave emissions into a range that we can process.

Here is what earth’s electromagnet signal sounds like.

Here is a sample of all the planets.

Several scientists have even released albums where they did so. Like Voyager

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Ray_Pingeau t1_j4z2ncz wrote

Earth has some of the best drone metal sounds I’ve heard

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Anonymous-USA t1_j4z1rcs wrote

Astrophysicists will take any frequency in the full EM spectrum (which includes radio and infrared and visible light and ultraviolet and microwave and X-ray and…) and remap it to an audio spectrum. If that’s what you mean. Mostly it’s white noise.

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Firm-Test-214 t1_j4z3alr wrote

Sound of every radio station all at the same time.

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