100 AU from Earth

[Christopher]

Actually, they did try soundless space scenes, but test audiences for the miniseries complained it was distracting switching back and forth from noisy interior scenes and quiet exteriors. So the concept was abandoned because of that.

A lot of worthy ideas have been killed by test audiences.

 

[DEWLine]

Truth, that is.

 

[Nightowl1701]

Planet 9,if it exists,is too cold for liquid water on the surface.

Who says it's water? Could be liquid nitrogen, or even alcohol.

 

[The Wormhole]

Who says it's water? Could be liquid nitrogen, or even alcohol.

Sounds like I need to pay this Planet 9 a visit.

 

[Destructor]

Yeah even Ron D Moore shelved his idea for BSG to be "harder" sc-fi by having silent space battles as it just wasn't good TV. (Though he did manage a compromise because of them using "real" ordnance and therefore legitimate "shooting sounds" from inside the shooter's ship...)

I remember the Ron Moore podcasts he did for BSG (and, nowadays, also for Outlander) and I remember him addressing this, saying that as a general rule they aimed to make the sound effects sound 'as they would from inside a Viper', which is why the Viper guns sound muffled, and you often hear space noise you probably wouldn't in a vacuum, usually in situations where the absence of noise would be more confusing than including it.

Firefly did silent space scenes, and it worked quite well, contrary to popular assumptions. I felt the lack of sound gave the action more of an impact, not less.

Agree with this 100% I really appreciated how the soundlessness in space enhanced the space sequences in FF. I think they had a big impact on BSG and, subsequently, The Expanse.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

I remember the Ron Moore podcasts he did for BSG (and, nowadays, also for Outlander) and I remember him addressing this, saying that as a general rule they aimed to make the sound effects sound 'as they would from inside a Viper', which is why the Viper guns sound muffled, and you often hear space noise you probably wouldn't in a vacuum, usually in situations where the absence of noise would be more confusing than including it.

It was very effective, and it actually came across clearly that that's what they were going for.

 

[Timo]

Lots of interesting detail in this week's view of Earth, including these:

- SB1 is not the same as Earth Spacedock (we actually see the latter under construction on medium orbit around Earth, surrounded by defense satellites)
- SB1 is a base of common design, and there's one station of that design right above Earth, too. It's unlikely to be SB1, although of course Starfleet could have ousted the handful of Klingons, scrubbed clean the exterior and repaired the damage in the time allotted. That is, in what looks like no more than twelve hours or so!
- The extremely high density of defense satellites is no doubt a wartime measure, suggesting millions of such in place at that time. Nothing of the sort could be seen near SB1, again suggesting a disconnect between that station and its companion planet, and this week's installations and Earth.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[publiusr]

A hundred AU is within Sol System's scattered disk, home to an assortment of cometary objects and dwarf planets,...

500 AU out is more useful--that's where the solar foci is:
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601331/a-space-mission-to-the-gravitational-focus-of-the-sun/

I would surround the solar system at that distance in a sphere constellation (not solid mind you) of telescope/dishes--like dimples around a golf ball, so as to have as many focal lines in view--and also serve as a solar GPS---and the station would be in contact with this "cloud."

Why should V'ger be alone in being several AUs wide?