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Not sure if this is so much a fun fact as a terrifying and haunting fact...
Also I'm not sure about the original poster's claim. People who were deaf from birth and gained hearing later in life often can't distinguish one sound from another and find sound to be irritating, confusing, and they can't really make sense of it.
The earlier someone receives the implant the more likely they are to be able to adjust to it
GravyEducation
lurkertron5000
Now, I think it's important to emphasize, it's not that it would sound *like* a jackhammer. It would sound like Starnoise™, but at such a volume that if you were using a jackhammer at the same time, you might have a chance to hear some of the hammer strikes from the jack
FullAccessPass
Regarding the first part... I've worked in hearing healthcare for over 40 years and this is the first I've heard (no pun intended) that members of the deaf community thought the sun made a sound.
Kiore
I've been involved with the Deaf community for years and it's neeeever come up, but it still seems quite plausible for at least a portion of people. There's a lot of general assumptions about sound that just don't come up because it just doesn't matter that much. If someone knew things like engines and heaters make sound it would be a really logical assumption that the sun would too.
BerryBnuuy
Yeah... I mean I have no doubt SOMEBODY thought that at some point, but I don't know about it being prevalent. While I am not deaf, I imagine the complete lack of "[sun noises]" in closed captions when the sun comes up would clue one into the lack of a sound
BigDaddysMeatWagon
Fun fact: if there were any medium beside the vacuum of space we would not be alive to hear it.
BerryBnuuy
True, the pressure would crush us, even if the density was only the same as Earth's atmosphere.
Also the solar system would be a black hole... The larger the schwarzchild radius, the less density is required to form an event horizon
AllTheGoodOnesWereGone
I believe OP’s comment is true about vision as well. People blind since birth who gain sight somehow later often have an immediate reaction like “oh, is that all?” Because they lack the whole development process for connecting the visual systems in the brain with the memories needed to interpret what they’re seeing.
steelundecided
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCyXsHC-lQ4
Over400
I need a Vsauce video explaining if the sound of the Sun travels to earth.
fuzzy3158
We probably wouldn't have evolved hearing if that were the case.
brazzy42
Sidenote: it is very much physically impossible for the sun to "go out" and freeze the earth. The energy being emitted by the ongoing nuclear fusion reaction is what keeps gravity from pulling all that gas together into a much smaller solid sphere, and the energy released from *that* would result in an unimaginably violent explosion that would vaporize earth. That's what happens naturally when a star runs out of fuel for the fusion reaction. It's called a Nova (or supernova, for larger stars).
NicolasKevinMac
Sorry to be a party-pooper, but thats-not-how-any-of-this-works.jpg. Sound only *exists* as mechanical vibrations in some medium, so to say that the vacuum of space "blocks" the sound is just nonsensical. To say that the sound "would" take 13 years to get here is based on the speed of sound in earth's atmosphere. But even on earth, the speed of sound can vary by like 20%; in a completely different medium at different density/temperature, it could be as fast as 50 days or as long as centuries.
NicolasKevinMac
Some more realistic reading about sound waves: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2256743-physicists-have-discovered-the-ultimate-speed-limit-of-sound/
ImperfectDad
Wait. You guys can't hear the sun?
thechickenlittle
Maybe that's what my tinnitus is.
TheLookAndFeelMUSIC
I've learned to block it out.It keeps saying inappropriate jokes, like give it a rest sun!
MermaidNinja
onetimepost9
Do you think the sun is screaming: I’m on fire, or oh it burns
CrepuscularCryomancer
I got a sun burn today, just sitting on my front porch with my cat in friggen OCTOBER. The sun 100% screams "FUCK YOU IN PARTICULAR!" (at least to all us pale goths that assume it's safe to go outside during spooky season)
BerryBnuuy
the sun screams a LOT of things... https://www.youtube.com/@SolarBalls
Badwolf09
AtsaMattaForMe
ineedteaformyteagun
IRCBrink
Better than on a cob
nobodyspecial995
Everywhere, at all times? I have to imagine it would be at least a little quieter at night...
Razade
Actually no. This is a common misconception. The sun gets louder at night because it's afraid of the dark.
OrigamiSheep
…then up comes the Moon with a high-pitched scream…
Trustrup
The Moon is up equally during day and night, it’s just more visible during the night.
Apeofdeath
yourbassist
LespritDeLescalier22
*yodeling*
kojenk
moonscream isnt the moon screaming, the moon cant scream. its just sun scream bouncing off the moon.
shakefu
Do you think the noise that is loud as a jackhammer after spreading out spherically for 196 MILLION miles is gonna be a little quieter from a mere 6,000km of rock in the way?
nobodyspecial995
I said "a little"
shakefu
So 0.004% quieter, I guess? Without refraction or transmission through the earth…
MagicAndDuctTape
What if I shut my windows? They're double glazed
shakefu
I guess it would help as much as someone doing demolition right outside your window… unless the earth sized jackhammer sound waves cause the whole planet to vibrate in sympathy… then maybe not so much.
shakefu
96 million… not 196, stupid typo.
iLoveVagjnaNomNomNomNom
Depends on the medium that replaces the vacuum of space. Air? Yep, quieter at night. Water? Not likely.
ME2BNS12
Guess they missed that one on Voyager
paynoattentiontousernames
If the planet was covered in jackhammer level sound all of the time, the dominant species (probably not us)would have developed with a method of communication different then vibrating air at eachother.
vnqx
Or it would just not be able to hear the tone of the sun, but hear other tones
ExecutiveProducerWolfDyck
I vote for large frills that can extend out around the neck and display complex patterns in infrared on a nocturnal hunter that has a big infrared sensing organ on their snout.
MorrowDisca
Plus, the Aliens from A Quiet Place would have been even angrier.
IonutGeorgianCiobanudeRadu
Yes but it might have been detrimental to evolution and/or make us VERY different (e.g. without broadcasting sound alerts we might die more to predators etc).
TalkingToTheVoid
Yeah .... Because we'd all be deaf
iLoveVagjnaNomNomNomNom
Valaar
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isthatyoujohnwayne
True and likely hearing wouldve evolved to ignore the sound too.
CitizenPrime
WHAT?
d3jake
https://archives.bulbagarden.net/media/upload/b/b2/0294Loudred.png
drgonzo67
Or evolution would favor communicating in other frequencies, and those of the constant background noise will probably be inaudible to us in the first place.
CrispyNougat
Or they would have evolved to not hear or use those frequencies.
Zalophus
Or even more likely, life in general would have evolved w/o ears.
NorthmanoftheNorth
Good news, even if the void between us and the sun allowed us to hear it, we still couldn't, as the frequency at which it screams is way lower than what humans can hear. If you go looking for the sound of the sun, and have a listen, it's been sped up 42000 times for it to resemble a "screaming siren" in reality it's such a low rumble that your ears fail to perceive it as a sound.
TheJackKetch
God, just imagine if we used chromatophores instead. My colourblind ass would be confusing those signals all the time. Meh, I guess not much would change there.
WilliamHuskerAdama
There are 16 different species of frogs that communicate by waving their back legs behind their head, much like flag communication. Usually developed because they live near something noisy, like at the bottom of a waterfall
WilliamHuskerAdama
https://youtu.be/VAmMrdF6ycQ?si=YldqyUKQhyToG3l2
For those interested. Foot-flagging can be seen at around 3 minutes in
HashMaster9k
So I'm assuming we've translated the Amphibian Seamaphor— Do they spell out "C-R-O-A-K" a lot?
WilliamHuskerAdama
The youngsters prefer CROAK, but the elder frogs still use RIBBIT
Hyperboi
I thought it was usually the older frogs that croaked
OzRockabella
...like writing?
SalmonTheWise
No, like on an evolutionary level, something in our biology. Writing is a product of complex civilization (and looking at pre-Columbian America, optional), and rely on tool use. You can't get writing without being able to communicate already.
ExecutiveProducerWolfDyck
There were lots of written languages in pre-Columbian America.
nikinnorway1337
imagine having to develop writing before evolving into a social intelligent species...
DeafBastard
Did we forget sign language exist? Or in today’s day and age, texting? Cuz we all have phone anxiety that we wouldn’t be talking on the phone anyways
TheJackKetch
I don’t think we evolved those skills naturally.
IThoughtIdComeUpWithABetterUserNameThanThis
that's more if the sun suddenly started making noise today, if it had always made noise we probably would not have developed the way we did
DeafBastard
Fair.