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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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There are some others, but yeah, it's sadly poorly understood. I mean, where do people think "In space, no-one can hear you scream" comes from? Tsk tsk.