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[labellementeuse]

Random thing which really pisses me off on sci fi TV and film: sound in space. Listen up, children: sound waves do not carry in space. It is not possible, since there is no medium (air/atmosphere/brick/water/ANYTHING, there is no NOTHING, it is a VACUUM) for it to travel through. However, as you all know, SF shows have sound in space all the goddamned time. Stargate does it all the time - in fact, my favourite thing about the leaked episodes? Because there was no background sound at all, the EVA sound was perfect. The only sound people should hear in EVA is the stuff that's coming over the comm. That bit in Adrift, where John and Radek turn around when they hear the microasteroid? Yeah. BAD SCIENCE. There's no way they could have heard that - maybe felt the vibrations through their feet, I guess, but that's it. ANYWAY. For all its flaws, it hits the mark sometimes. I jumped around screaming happily this afternoon when watching an old SG-1 ep, Failsafe.

So Jack and Teal'c are wandering around on the moon. Rocks are falling all around them - soundlessly! I was thrilled, but it got even better. They return to the cargo ship and find its atmosphere vented. They find Sam and Daniel in the life pods and - here's the awesome - to check, Jack kicks the pods and puts his hand out to touch the pod to feel the response!

I nearly fell out of bed in my joy paroxysms. Go, SG-1, and whoever was responsible for that little detail! You are people who get science right! I don't know why you don't do it more often.

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[ariastar.livejournal.com]

Well, for perspective, at least SGA uses accurate physics in Adrift, with the throwing-across-the-abyss thing. In an old episode of Doctor Who, the Doctor is floating in space and throws a cricket ball away from him for momentum. Does he go as fast as the cricket ball is going, but in the other direction? Oh no. He waits for it to hit the side of the ship he's just let go of-- it makes a little 'ping' noise-- and when he catches it, both he and the cricket ball go floating to safety.

Of course I guess I shouldn't compare early 80s sci-fi with Stargate anyway, but um yes.

I HATE SOUND IN SPACE TOO. Firefly is the only show that has ever done that right, and in Serenity even they abandoned silence.

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Oh my gosh, that is a hilarious image, though. XD

God, I was SO ANNOYED when I watched Serenity and in the OPENING SHOT there was freakin' sound in a vacuum. I really adored the way Firefly managed it, like, beyond compare (it is still the show I mention every time I rant about this IRL which is, um, embarassingly ferequently.) It's like, what, now that you're making a feature film you forget the meaning of science?