Jackhammer

Just one small hitch: if there was an atmosphere in space dense enough to carry sound, the earth would burn up in minutes.

Ah, so this isn't tinnitus, I can actually hear the sun!

I imagine it would be kind of like the hypnotoad sound

Evolution would say: nope. And the surviving class would be deaf. No one is able to accept a permanent jackhammer.

the sheer scale of the universe makes me want to get into astronomy.

If the sun were to go out it would take 8 minutes for the light to stop but 13 years for the sound to stop.

Kind of like when you kill an enderman. 🤔

On the plus side, if we evolved on Planet Sunblaster then our hearing would have evolved to either dial down the volume or filter it out completely.

You wouldn't, of course. Hearing, the way we hear, in such an environment would be useless. We wouldn't have evolved that. This is like saying "ultraviolet radiation from the sun would be everywhere, all the time, can you imagine?" It is everywhere all the time, but as such it isn't a useful sense to possess, so we don't.

This also makes some very weird assumptions about what the sound would be like. If space were a medium sound could travel through then it would--like all mediums capable of carrying a sound wave--alter the wave in many ways. Intensity, frequency, etc. But since we don't know what kind of medium that would be, and since the comment doesn't posit any particular medium, we don't know what the sound would sound like or even how loud it would be.

When I was little, I thought the sound of cicadas came from the sun.

It does. We can't hear it, but it does.

imagine ... hearing the jackhammer scream of our star

Sounds are a form of energy. If we were bombarded by sound waves for the entire existence of the planet, I assume life would have adapted to harness this abundant power source and made it instrumental to how we survive and thrive.

Noone would live for longer than a few weeks after the sun went out.

A bullet fired from a gun goes more or less at Mach 1, correct?
It's thirteen years to the sun at the speed of a bullet?

Spacecraft towards Mercury, or the Parker Solar Probe go much faster than that, take a few years to make it there, but they are doing so picking up speed in flybys of first Earth, then Venus, then Mercury, in several, ever tighter orbits.

It's both fun and illuminating to try and visualize these things in new ways. In this case, from the viewpoint of a bullet.

This seems like bullshit to me. I don't think the noise level of the sun is something we have solid data on

If it takes 13 years for sound how long would it take for us to reach the sun on a rocket

imagine living on a cold dead earth for thirteen years

you'd be dead in a week

First time I saw the North Lights in person I also expected something other than complete silence. I don't know what, but they're so surreal and massive I thought you'd hear something.

That’s funteresting to think about.

I guess the sun being loud shouldn't really be all that strange; if I recall correctly the sun has explosions happening on it everywhere all the time, the strange part though is the whole sound lasting for thirteen years part.

so, someone did the math on that?

no vacuum, that means atmosphere. so lets say 1 atmospheric pressure the whole way.

which would be sad, because rain, clouds, ozone layer and countless other atmospheric phenomen would be impossible. so no life on the planet anyway.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_attenuation

how loud is the sun? does anybody know? what is the acoustic pressure on a certain orbit near the sun, iof there is atmosphere?

so, the acoustic presssure needs to reach earth. it needs to travel 13 years.

overcoming this much atmosphere between sun and earth eats energy, since there is a resistance. because there is an atmosphere, see? thats why sound gets softer and softer, the more away you are from the source.

so I guess the whole idea is bullshit.

but i am just a construction worker, maybe someone else will do the math.

i doubt any light rays would make it here. it would be pitch black dark.

the light would be scattered by the atmosphere.

the vaccum does not block sound. it just doesnt transmit it. there is nothing what can block.

same as vacuum does not suck. never. the key is pressure differential, the higher pressure dictates what will happen, not the lower pressure.

That last bit is a little poetic to say the least.

Probably be a big roar. Like hurricane wind.

Dang, we'd have to wear ear protection all day!