I have recently watched some TEDtalks videos about space, and they said that there is an actual sound (radio waves I think) to stars, galaxies, black holes, etc. Will there be some kind of "Radio Receiver" dish or something, that will allow you to listen to the magnificent sound of these celestial bodies? I know there probably would not be a lot of functionality for this but it would still be awesome to have. (Maybe you could listen in for sounds to find hidden systems for exploration or hidden ships, like sonar in subs)asked by Maj_kod

You know, I actually have not heard of this. That's pretty cool. I'll have to go look that up!

Ooh! Ooh-ooh-ooh! [banging fists on knees in an excitable manner]

Yeah? You looked it up?

Yes! Well actually, no-no-no, not that I looked it up. Being an avid, amateur cosmologist..

Oh, different from cosmetologist?

Yes!

Okay. Okay. [both laugh]

Every astral body emits sound. So when we landed the Rosetta on the comet recently, do you remember hearing that-... did you see that thing where they were recording sound from the actual comet itself?

No.

You can actually look up online for astral body sounds - things like Jupiter, Saturn - they all emit certain sound patterns. You can actually listen to that. Some of it, I think, I want to say some of it's sped up, or slowed down, I can't remember...

Is it like-... Is he right? It is like radio frequencies?

Yes. If I'm-... I don't want to misrepresent it, or misstate it, but I want to say yes.

Okay! Ah, that's interesting, yeah...

On top of that... well you have-... That's why radio-based astronomy is so big. Radio telescopes. So we can listen to sound from, like, pulsars. Everything gives off, if I remember correctly, some form of radio.

Like somewhere on a spectrum there's little waves and amplitudes happening? Frequencies and stuff?

Yes.

Ah, that's cool. I did not know that.

It's how we listen to some of the most distant objects in our universe is basically picking up what those sound patterns are, and they're really cool to listen to. So as far as functionality in the game? It would be a cool vanity thing. I don't see...

Yeh. I was picturing a ship with, like a giant radar dish here listening for a jump point, or something.

How about in the shape of a giant ear, just for like-...

Yeah, exactly! I was thinking like an old man with one of those ear cones.

Actually I just thought about something. Did you ever read the book, or see the movie "Contact"?

Yeah!

So, did you read the book?

No.

So, the movie actually had almost nothing to do with the book. Where the movie was about religion versus science, the novel itself (which is why it's my favorite Carl Sagan novel) was about transcendental numbers - numbers like pi. About how there's no end - it's a perpetual number that never has the same pattern repeating once. But in the novel, if you went far down enough into those numbers, they actually started seeing patterns emerge, which is where they got the plans for that giant structure. So how do you have something that's so fundamental to the laws of the universe have a pattern for designs of a space tunnel, and a spaceship? While that was a lot of creative license and there's no actual pattern found in those numbers, it would be interesting, as a hidden Easter egg in the game. Like, if you listen to a certain sound patterns long enough your computer will start processing it and you find sort of hidden messages... like "you left the light on in your oven"

Yeah I can already see like we'd go to Citizen Con though, and we'd have some guy with a big beard and uncut fingernails, and he's, "I figured it out!" [both laugh]

"I've been sitting here for four years!"

"My wife has left me, but... it has finally all made sense!"