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OK: The car stereo sends electrical signals to the speaker cones to make them vibrate in the pattern of "Space Oddity". But there is no air for the speaker cones to move.
So, is there a sound?
Is the car stereo "playing" Space Oddity, if there is no sound?
If there were an astronaut there, either in a very thin space suit or with some mechanical extender through the suit to his fingertips, so that he could touch and feel the vibration of the speaker cones with his fingertips: Would there then be a sound? Would the car stereo be "playing"?
Or, if the extender through the space suit goes not to his fingertips, but to his scull, so that he experiences the vibrations as if they were real sounds, are they then sounds even though no air at all is moving?
If it doesn't take moving air to call it a sound, does it still require the speaker cones? If you disconnect the speakers, letting the cables directly out in thin space, the voltage differnce between their tips represent an energy potential varying in the pattern of Space Oddity. Is that a sound? Or does "sound" require mechanical movements, even if it doesn't require air movements?
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With the speakers, there is sound: place your space-helmeted head against the body of the car and you may be able to hear the cones moving as they vibrate the body of the car. (This may be very faint due to the shock insulating material that mounts the cone to the speaker body, but in space no one can hear you watch "Scream" so there isn't anything else to listen to).
Without them? No, no "sound" since it is defined as:
Quote: vibrations that travel through the air or another medium and can be heard when they reach a person's or animal's ear.
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The good things about definitions are that you have so many to choose from 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_a_tree_falls_in_a_forest[^] ... So the philosophical question is settled now; we don't have to worry about it any more.
I guess we will soon make a definition that unambiguously determines whether the cat is dead or alive, too, and Schrödinger may relax, and terminate his cat extinction project Maybe we can do away with the entire quantum physics!
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I've always the tree in the forest question rather anthropocentric.
There may not be a human there to hear the tree fall but surely the squirrels and the birds are going to know about it. Trees are very important to them and they probably pay more attention to these matters than we do.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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As long ago as WW II they had microphones that did not work with air but were placed on the pilots throat to pick up vibrations. This was needed because their voices were not audible due to the engine noise.
So why shouldn't this transfer via contact not work in space ?
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Bbbb bad to the bone ... 
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Sure it would work. But is it a sound? What does it take to make it a sound? if the speaker cone vibrates without anyone touching them, is that a sound? If you disconnect the speakers and touch the cable end with your tounge, feeling the vibrating electrical potential, does your tounge then feel a sound?
If a sound requires a mechanical vibration (but any mechanical vibration satisfies), how do you then label the sensation created by the sound? Your brain, your conciousness, does not vibrate. The mechanical vibration is converted to something else (electrical signals) long before they reach your conciousness. So your conciousness cannot hear a sound. What can it "hear"?
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Member 7989122 wrote: So your conciousness cannot hear a sound. What can it "hear"?
One hand clapping, and a tree falling in the forest.
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If it's playing "Space Oddity" on loop, why did all of the broadcasts and the earlier simulation video feature "Life on Mars"?
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If you whack the astronaut up the side of the head with a baseball bat, but there is no baseball, Is that equivalent to watching cricket?
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... to go online?[^]
Should be a compulsory test that. 
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We know you have failed it!
(otherwise you wouldn't be here)
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Oi Griff! No!!! That is a transparent attempt to get views by briefly mentioning a well-known day of the week.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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At the far right bottom of the post, next to the flag and bookmark is a piece of chain, or a link if you prefer.
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Oh, right. The old 'a symbol is better than a phrase' idea. Hmm. Lets go back to hieroglyphs eh?
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It's for the non English readers.
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And work in IT? Are there any?
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We obviously need a sarcasm icon.
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Its called /sarcasm
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: It's for the non English readers.
... but limited to those cultures / languages that use any sort of "chain-like" idiom to represent a reference to a document.
In Norwegian, you never use "kjetting", chain, as a link idiom. We use "link", in the sense of a radio link, through open air with no physical connection - a term never used for anything physical. Frequently when we encounter icons of English-language origin, we have to go through the different English words that can describe the icon, hoping that one of them matches some relvant concept - such as a chain, a link, ... aha! "Link" is a known English term in the web domain! Then that must be it! (In this example, we happen to use the same term ("link") in English and Norwegian. Often, you end up at a completely different Norwegian word.)
Icons easily end up as just a graphical pattern that carries no inherent meaning. Like this parent who were bemoaning that kids of today know nothing about computing history - they see this floppy-disk icon, but have never seen a real-world floppy. So this mother pointing to the floppy icon to her teenage son: "I bet you have no idea what that is", and the boy protests: "Of course I do! That's a save button!"
Icons are sensitive to cultural variations, and to ages.
"Word icons" are similar: Lots of Europeans wouldn't know that GUI "radio buttons" have anything to do with a radio. Even though European radios might have physical preset buttons, we are not accustomed to mechanics where the active button changes its face color. I have been with kids seeing that "American style" radio buttons for the first time, exclaiming: "Gee! That is just like on the PC! Great!"
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Interesting, what do you call a link in a chain then?
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Munchies_Matt wrote: 
How dare you, you hypocrite!!
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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