Sounds in Space

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Starship engines roar with power. Asteroids emit an audible 'whoosh' as they pass. Lasers 'pew pew' through the aether. Too bad sound waves require a medium to propogate through. Generally acceptable through suspension of disbelief, less so in "hard" science fiction.

This is such a universally-accepted untruth that it is really more notable when a science-fiction series or movie doesn't depict sound in space, such as the short-lived Firefly or its feature film follow-up, Serenity. Some films aren't even consistent on the subject; the 2009 Star Trek movie cuts into silence as the camera follows a doomed crewman through a hull breach into space, but the same film also regularly depicts the sound of phasers firing or starships exploding.
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