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Twenty Thousand Hertz

Dallas Taylor

Music, Design, Arts, Music Commentary

4.8 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2017

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

When we think about sound, our only reference is what it’s like here on Earth. What happens when we leave this thin blanket of atmosphere, and what do other planets sound like? Featuring Dr. Lori Glaze, Dr. Keith Noll, Dr. Scott Guzewich from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Twenty Thousand Hertz is produced out of the studios of Defacto Sound and hosted by Dallas Taylor. Consider supporting the show at donate.20k.org Episode transcript, music, and credits can be found here: https://www.20k.org/episodes/space Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	From de facto sound, you're listening to 20,000 Hertz.
0:06.5	The stories behind the world's most recognizable and interesting sounds.
0:10.4	I'm Dallas Taylor.
0:12.3	This is the story behind sound in our solar system.
0:22.7	When you think about sound in space, classic films and television, like Star Trek, immediately
0:28.6	come to mind.
0:34.2	From the ambient drones in Alien, to the galactic battle scenes in Star Wars, space truly
0:48.0	is the final frontier in the study of sound.
0:56.0	Perhaps the best marketing tagline in movie history came from the Ridley Scott film, Alien.
1:02.3	In space, no one can hear you scream.
1:05.8	That phrase is true, and not only because of the distance from Earth, it has to do with
1:10.4	how sound travels.
1:12.6	I'm Dr. Laurie Glaze.
1:14.4	I'm the deputy director of the Solar System Exploration Division at NASA's Goddard Space
1:19.0	Flight Center.
1:20.5	Laurie oversees about 300 scientists that study all the planets and small bodies of our
1:25.2	solar system.
1:26.7	You don't have sound in space because sound requires molecules.
1:31.2	You have to be able to move the molecules with the sound waves, and without the molecules,
1:36.1	the sound just doesn't move.
1:39.2	You can try and use your lungs to push the sound out of your mouth, but it won't travel
1:43.6	anywhere.
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