Well seeing as the forums haven't had anything good to debate i've decided to create this topic to change that.
So question of the day:
If a capital ship crashes on a planet and no one is around to hear it does it make a sound?
(assuming the crew is dead of course)

Well




To answer the question you have to consider how sound is produced. Well of course you need vibration for sound to exist and i'm almost positive if a ship crashed there would be some sort of vibration. But vibration is not the only thing needed to produce sound, there has to be a sensory receptor. Take the human ear for example; sound waves enter the ear,vibrating the tiny bones in the ear and then transformed into anelectrical signal by the organ of corti to be sent to the brain foranalysis. If there was nothing around to transform the sound waves and vibrations then really there would be nothing heard... get it?


or you can think of it differently... and you'd come to the boring conclusion that yeah there still would be sound... i prefer to think and actually have a good explanation for my answer





josh

Wow 13 yrs old and you came up with that answer, very well done, see kids school does pay off

just to throw in a bit of a curve ball im guna say no it doesnt

dude fonejaker thats what i was looking for. a philisophical answer. so yeah it would make a sound but there's no one to recieve the sound so how can you know if it did?

actually sound is just waves
waves dont make sound untill they enter a reciever (mic, aer, etc)

so if nothing recieves that sound it doesent make noise-its just vibrations floating througth the air until they disipate

& What about the mics on the ship? They recieved the waves before they get broke by the explosion ... sound. Also the crew who didnt die the second the ship hit the surface recieve the waves = hear the sound before they die.

well to clarify they are all dead before the ship enters the atmosphere from a huge gaping hole in the side sucking out all the air and the air locks didn't seal in time. the microphones would relatively be intact

So if the mics work they translate the waves into sound.
Btw, are they transmitting?

hmmmm well over the pa system at most or being recorded in the securtiy database

Thought maybe they where sending out a mayday till the last second they where alive, so they would still be transmitting. If so & they still send out the explosion, the radiowaves (with the explosionsounds) keep 'floating' in space.
But anyway, the mics work so they make a sound.

yes there would be sound. sound = vibrations traveling thru a medium (solid liquid or gas) the ships hull is a medium, the ground of the plannet is a medium, if there were any atmosphere on said plannet there would be a medium for the vibrations to travel thru. if there is a sensory organ available to convert the vibration of sound waves into an audible tone is moot since there are sound frequencies that are in fact inaudable to different sensory organs but they still exist. For example the human ear not being able to hear frequencies over 20k where dogs can.