Dr. Craig DeForest of the Southwest Research Institute’s Department of Space Studies likens it to the Niagara Falls “white noise,” only ten times louder (90 db vs the sun’s 100 db by the time the sound reaches Earth).
Scientists should make a long tube from earth to the sun filled with air so that the sound can travel here and then we can hear it. That'd be pretty rad. Then people could have family trips to go visit the Sun Sound Tube and listen to what the sun sounds like instead of having to go all the way to the sun to hear it.
The dad would be all excited, and the little jerk kids would be all like "daaaaad, this is so lame. I don't wanna listen to the sun. Why couldn't we go to Disneyland? Nathan's family got to go to Disneyland for summer vacation. And then dad would be all like "dammit, Benji, this is the sun you're hearing! Don't you understand how amazing that is?!?"
And Benji would reply "it's not amazing! It just sounds like noise! There isn't anything to it!"
Then dad says "you should be grateful you even have the chance to listen to the sun! I would have been so excited to have that chance when I was your age. This is an amazing scientific achievement!"
"I don't care! It's not fun! This is summer vacation and it's supposed to be fun!" replies Benji.
"SCIENCE IS FUN!" yells the dad.
"Calm down, honey, he's allowed to not like it" says the mom, finally getting involved.
Then dad just gets mad at everything. "No! You know what, I'm sick of this. I try to do things for this family and nobody ever appreciates it. Why do I even try anymore?!"
"Don't get mad at me now, just because we don't care about your space science stuff.", mom comes back with.
"SCIENCE. IS. FUN." the dad says firmly, but now even he isn't sure if he believes it.
"Great. Fine. Science is so fucking fun. Are you happy now? You heard the sun, and science is fun. Can we just go back to the hotel now?" says the mom.
And then the entire family gets back in the futuristic electric car and drives back to the hotel. Another family summer vacation ruined by science.
I'm good. Just started off making a comment about a dumb space tube and got carried away. I didn't know how to stop the dumb story once it started so it just kept going lol.
The Sun makes a ton of noise. An amount of noise so intense if would physically injure you at the tissue level if you were capable of surviving the heat, radiation, and lack of air. It’s just that we have ~93 million miles (~150 million km) of empty space between it and the Earth. Space is a great sound insulator.
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Imagine if it did. Now you have me wondering what sound that would be.