BTW this sound IRL is MUCH longer than 3 minutes, specifically the sound you’re hearing in the vid is sped up by a factor of 42,000 to make it audible to human ears
if it sounds familiar, you probably remember playing with a plasma sphere as a kid, no? it’s exactly that, it’s the sound of plasma flowing around in the sun’s atmosphere, i.e. solar weather
a microwave sounds similar on account of an oscillating magnetic field causing metal components inside the microwave to vibrate, is literally what’s happening inside the sun as the shifting plasma winds inside the sun generate a very powerful oscillating magnetic field
thus if you can’t hear it, it’s because bipedal primates haven’t evolved to hear frequencies lower than 20 hz, big whoop XD
the sound is that of a big “microwave” oven making helium for birthday balloons in it’s core
like no other factory in our solar system, our sun uses gravity to mix hydrogen atoms by waterfalls, churning and mixing trillions of tonnes of plasma an hour via nuclear reaction, also producing energy mostly in the form of gamma rays and X-rays at the core, continuously absorbed and re-emitted by atoms throughout the sun’s layers for centuries before making it to the surface and being spat out into space in the form of mostly visible light
but a very tiny fraction of the emitted radiation is the UV light which activates photosynthesis and fuels just about all life on earth
the energy of being a living organism, of doing things, of thinking, of all of your existence, and that of all that walks, all that runs, of all that swims, of all that crawls, of all that flies, of all that thinks, of all that plays, of all that fucks
I mean, you also can’t here it because there’s 93 million miles of vacuum between here and there, and vacuum is quite noted for its inability to propagate sound. There’s a movie tagline about it and everything!
I mean we can literally hear it on earth despite that distance thanks to the work of scientists who turned raw doppler imager data from artificial satellites orbiting the sun into the video sound above 😛
is basically the audio recording equivalent of long-exposure photography
heck even without these satelites, the sun’s atmospheric activity can very much be heard on earth in the form of radio interference caused by coronal mass ejections and solar flares
Leslie: I just want to make it clear I am not a substitute for your mother.
Charlie: Of course not. My mother is 10 billion cosmic bees. They sang in harmony at the time of the great conjunction, and so it came to pass that I had always been.
Aren’t they twins? …this is a stupid question and I’m too tired to Google it, but are there twins where one was born vaginally and the other through C-section?
It’s not super common but yeah, if something goes wrong with birthing the second twin it might need to get swapped to an emergency C-section after the first has already been born.
Well, actually…
There is free gas floating around between the stars, and there are interactions between them, so there is “sound” in space. Between the stars in our galaxy the speed of sound is around 100 km/s.
There is even a star cluster that is reverberating to a single sound wave, B-flat, 57 octaves below middle C.
Dear Dina, why did you take back the hat you gave Charlie?! At the very least, you should’ve gotten her a replacement first! (But this time, go get the hat yourself, instead of traveling with Charlie; not sure the universe could survive that)
Did you know there’s rain on the sun? Plasma showers, hotter than the center of the Earth, falling in arcs along magnetic distortions. If you get within the Sun’s atmosphere I wonder if there would be any vibrations quiet enough to qualify as sound or just blastwaves.
Whoa! Charlie better check who she’s getting that mother figure/role model relationship from! She’s still fresh blood around here. She ain’t even lost a parent or been kidnapped yet and she’s already moving in on some at risk queer’s territory.
yeah something tells me she’s the kind of conservative who looks up guides for what courses to take to graduate college “without touching liberal bullshit” 9-9
now that it’s been brought up, I do think it’s a conflict of interest that Leslie is the teacher of a student she was hosting in her house last semester. Maybe Becky’s exam should be graded by someone other than Leslie
I’m glad the sun is far away. Otherwise, I bet it’d sound like a worse version of the shrill sound that electronics make. You know, when they’re plugged in across the room but my autistic brethren and I can still hear them, for some damn reason
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this is the sound of the sun she’s talking about BTW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I-zdmg_Dno
is the sound of nuclear fusion turning 600 million tonnes of hydrogen into 596 million tonnes of helium every second
…you know, I could swear I’ve heard this exact sound in a 1960s Dr. Who episode.
I read your comment as tongue in cheek, but listening to it…yeah, total Dalek city vibes.
That has to be one of the most zoned out sounds I’ve heard. I was immediately put into a zoinked out state. Weird/
BTW this sound IRL is MUCH longer than 3 minutes, specifically the sound you’re hearing in the vid is sped up by a factor of 42,000 to make it audible to human ears
if it sounds familiar, you probably remember playing with a plasma sphere as a kid, no? it’s exactly that, it’s the sound of plasma flowing around in the sun’s atmosphere, i.e. solar weather
a microwave sounds similar on account of an oscillating magnetic field causing metal components inside the microwave to vibrate, is literally what’s happening inside the sun as the shifting plasma winds inside the sun generate a very powerful oscillating magnetic field
thus if you can’t hear it, it’s because bipedal primates haven’t evolved to hear frequencies lower than 20 hz, big whoop XD
the sound is that of a big “microwave” oven making helium for birthday balloons in it’s core
like no other factory in our solar system, our sun uses gravity to mix hydrogen atoms by waterfalls, churning and mixing trillions of tonnes of plasma an hour via nuclear reaction, also producing energy mostly in the form of gamma rays and X-rays at the core, continuously absorbed and re-emitted by atoms throughout the sun’s layers for centuries before making it to the surface and being spat out into space in the form of mostly visible light
but a very tiny fraction of the emitted radiation is the UV light which activates photosynthesis and fuels just about all life on earth
the energy of being a living organism, of doing things, of thinking, of all of your existence, and that of all that walks, all that runs, of all that swims, of all that crawls, of all that flies, of all that thinks, of all that plays, of all that fucks
I mean, you also can’t here it because there’s 93 million miles of vacuum between here and there, and vacuum is quite noted for its inability to propagate sound. There’s a movie tagline about it and everything!
*can’t [i]hear[/i] it. I shouldn’t be typing this late.
I mean we can literally hear it on earth despite that distance thanks to the work of scientists who turned raw doppler imager data from artificial satellites orbiting the sun into the video sound above 😛
is basically the audio recording equivalent of long-exposure photography
heck even without these satelites, the sun’s atmospheric activity can very much be heard on earth in the form of radio interference caused by coronal mass ejections and solar flares
so… this?
I was thinking more like this:
https://youtu.be/wWoQ7PFSYlk?si=HhWYJvpa5PNP5N98
Leslie: I just want to make it clear I am not a substitute for your mother.
Charlie: Of course not. My mother is 10 billion cosmic bees. They sang in harmony at the time of the great conjunction, and so it came to pass that I had always been.
Leslie: …And Booster?
Charlie: Oh, they were just a C-section.
Aren’t they twins? …this is a stupid question and I’m too tired to Google it, but are there twins where one was born vaginally and the other through C-section?
I like the implication that that’s the only part of this explanation that doesn’t make sense.
Well yes everything else was perfectly logical and natural, the c section is what seems weird
I’m not an expert but I’m p sure I’ve read about situations where one twin is a premie and one isn’t so theoretically, perhaps?
It’s not super common but yeah, if something goes wrong with birthing the second twin it might need to get swapped to an emergency C-section after the first has already been born.
That’s the great thing about space not carrying sound: the universe would be so flippin loud
It carries light, and it’s still pretty dark.
The Sun is very far away and sound doesn’t carry as well as light, so it might not be too bad?
Well, actually…
There is free gas floating around between the stars, and there are interactions between them, so there is “sound” in space. Between the stars in our galaxy the speed of sound is around 100 km/s.
There is even a star cluster that is reverberating to a single sound wave, B-flat, 57 octaves below middle C.
flingin’ flangin’ no editing:
https://www.system-sounds.com/black-hole-sound/
Kinda wonder if stuff like gravitational waves count as sound.
Leslie, you need to stop putting hands on your students.
Especially autistic ones.
second this
like don’t touch anyone like that without consent really, autistic or not
The only time a teacher should be touching their students if they’re strangling them.
i mean ngl, that’s pretty justified in Mary’s case XD
Leslie, have you ever considered thinking before you do things? Because it rather feels like you haven’t.
We have seen her thinking about doing stuff with people. It’s not any better for her decision-making process.
Would overthinking count? I think she could do overthinking.
I think you might be overthinking her overthinking.
But I think I might be overthinking you overthinking her overthinking.
But if you are overthinking their overthinking over her overthinking, then who is piloting the plane?!
It can’t be; Who is on first.
And what’s in the copilot seat.
Well that’s it, I’m over thinking.
Here. Have a spare Internet.
Huh. You might have a point. I’ll have to think it over.
I understand Charlie perfectly. It’s very distracting.
Leslie: I will be there for you, always, Mar…oh crap.
Mary: BWahahahhahahaha.
The Sun’s a big place, it’s probably making a lot of sounds.
But are things quieter at night?
*twitch*
Need to explain rising.
Quick! Close the tab!
I don’t think there are nights on the sun
Dear Dina, why did you take back the hat you gave Charlie?! At the very least, you should’ve gotten her a replacement first! (But this time, go get the hat yourself, instead of traveling with Charlie; not sure the universe could survive that)
Charlie said she wanted a different hat.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2024/comic/book-15/01-love-dares-you-to-change/tighter/
That was the start of their epic adventure, Hat Quest!
Or screaming, or weeping. You know attributing any emotion to the sun is a terrifying prospect.
I like to think it has a sunny disposition.
Life can be delish with a sunny disposish
The sound the sun makes is “Lowenstein… Lowenstein…”
Her name is Zweig
Okay Charlie was round 2, I guess next round would be a male student?
Sure, line up for odd shoulder-touches from your teacher, all ye men and women.
Did you know there’s rain on the sun? Plasma showers, hotter than the center of the Earth, falling in arcs along magnetic distortions. If you get within the Sun’s atmosphere I wonder if there would be any vibrations quiet enough to qualify as sound or just blastwaves.
I was today old when I realised Leslie’s name is Les
liebean. Lesbian.That’s because, in Shortpacked, she spent months being referred to by Desanto only as “my lesbian.”
As I recall, the pun was the entire joke. And then Willis fleshed her character out.
you folks can’t hear the sun?
The sun definitely laughing at us. And we kind of deserve it mostly
My favorite planet is the sun. It’s like, the King of Planets.
That’s not even a joke. The sun makes a terrifying noise
Whoa! Charlie better check who she’s getting that mother figure/role model relationship from! She’s still fresh blood around here. She ain’t even lost a parent or been kidnapped yet and she’s already moving in on some at risk queer’s territory.
Do we know that Charlie and Booster’s parents are still alive?
There are worse students she could’ve picked for this.
Like Mary.
Fuckin’ Mary.
Mary doesn’t take gender studies.
Pretty sure she would burn if she ever tried
yeah something tells me she’s the kind of conservative who looks up guides for what courses to take to graduate college “without touching liberal bullshit” 9-9
it’s just the sun’s constant screaming
nothing to worry about
And all of a sudden I identify with the sun.
Omg I am Charlie
-Solar goon cave noises intensify-
goon??
now that it’s been brought up, I do think it’s a conflict of interest that Leslie is the teacher of a student she was hosting in her house last semester. Maybe Becky’s exam should be graded by someone other than Leslie
With Becky’s wildly politically backed scholarship, she probably doesn’t need this class for the grades. I’m guessing.
Robin would have bigger conflicts of interest with her students but nobody is doing anything about that, so
I’m glad the sun is far away. Otherwise, I bet it’d sound like a worse version of the shrill sound that electronics make. You know, when they’re plugged in across the room but my autistic brethren and I can still hear them, for some damn reason
If the sun were not far away, its sound would be the least of your problems.
That too, I guess ^_^’
Similar situation with Robin, love her expression in that strip.
wft panel 1
Robin prefers to be called everyone’s cool older sister.
Still not beating the mom allegations, Leslie.
Clearly Charlie-speak for, ‘Get your hand off of my shoulder if you want to keep it Leslie.’
At the very least she doesn’t look particularly comfortable in that last panel.
No touchy! Nooooo touchy! No touch!
definitely manic chuckle
I thought it went “TWO SCOOPS”.
Be the mom you want to see in the world.
what if it’s moaning
Probably is. I hear it’s got Coronavirus.
I like Charlie, but every time I see her I’m confused at how she functions. She seems to be barely aware of the world around her most of the time.
The ominousness of the laughter would depend on the sun’s sense of humour, wouldn’t it?