The Physics of Starship Battles UPGRADED AND REMASTERED: Energy, Waves, and Sound

Remember all the times I said I was going to reupload my previous movies at higher quality with fixed sound? Well here we are. Only took me a year to get around to it. ;)
By the time I'm done 6 movies total will be reuploaded, at 10x the previous quality and with that annoying left/right speaker problem wiped out and done. Enjoy

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[Virgil0211]

The 'bean counter' you're referring to... Joss Whedon?

[SpreadingtheMuse]

@Virgil0211 Harlan Ellison and Orson Scott Card. Both are on record as being not just in favor of silent space battles, but being angrily hostile towards any show that does it the "wrong" way.

Ellison's complaint was worked into a self-serving and ignorant diatribe against Star Wars, so that makes it doubly damning of him.

[RickMojave]

I can't hear anything you were saying between 2:19 and 2:22. :P

[SpreadingtheMuse]

@RickMojave The boom was more important. Dont worry about it ;)

[YouthFreedomFighters]

So how would the sonic screwdriver work in space? Speaking of which, theres even some scenes where the sonic screwdriver produces visual luminous effects, the last time I checked sound does not produce any visual luminous effects, sound does not light up.

[SpreadingtheMuse]

@YouthFreedomFighters And Gallifray isnt a real planet either, so it all evens out.

The Master used a Laser Screwdriver and said that was better. Both terms, "laser" and "sonic" are cut and paste sci fi terms which non-science writers throw in to make themselves sound smarter than they might be. Dont take it too seriously.

[isaiahawsum]

Actually, light can be used to transmit sound. Light, though very small, is still a particle. It can travel through vacuum, excite slilghtly larger particles, and so on, until you hear it. Course it would only sound like a phaser or something, not intelligible words. Just basic sounds.

[Ryagful]

isn't that from star wars?

[YouthFreedomFighters]

@SpreadingtheMuse I know, "Leave your brain behind and enjoy it," thats how it is with lots of science fiction, or should I say, science fantasy.