I hope that the children I have someday won't think I'm a bigger dork than my wife already does. More than that, I hope that if their lives get made into a TV movie it isn't on the Lifetime channel serving as a cautionary tale.
There is sound in space and that is probably one of the biggest misconceptions people have about space (the second would be that the moon is a hop-skip-and-a-jump from Earth).
As others stated, it's not actually "air" that is required for sound but just something for sound to reverberate off of. It's true that much of space is a vacuum but in our solar system, especially in our little corner of it, space is actually filled with plasma, in the form of Solar Winds. These "winds" provide something for sound to travel on.
Still, there is some truth to this misunderstanding of sound: most of it would vibrate at a different frequency than the human ear can interpret. That doesn't mean that it doesn't exist, just that we can't hear it (sort of like a dog whistle).
Just thought I'd complain about something like the rest of these yahoos.
As others stated, it's not actually "air" that is required for sound but just something for sound to reverberate off of. It's true that much of space is a vacuum but in our solar system, especially in our little corner of it, space is actually filled with plasma, in the form of Solar Winds. These "winds" provide something for sound to travel on.
Still, there is some truth to this misunderstanding of sound: most of it would vibrate at a different frequency than the human ear can interpret. That doesn't mean that it doesn't exist, just that we can't hear it (sort of like a dog whistle).
Just thought I'd complain about something like the rest of these yahoos.