In case you were thinking of writing a story in which your characters are talking in the thin atmosphere of Mars, think about this:<\/p>\n
The work, which was\u00a0presented at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference<\/a>\u00a0in Texas on 8 March, also revealed that the sound travelled in an unusual way in the Martian atmosphere, which is primarily low-pressure carbon dioxide. On Mars, higher frequency sounds arrive before the lower bass ones due to the way CO2<\/sub> molecules vibrate differently at low and high frequencies.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou would receive all the low frequencies of my voice a few milliseconds after the high frequencies\u2026 so it would lead to a kind of distortion of sounds that would be quite difficult to understand,\u201d says [Baptiste Chide<\/a> at Los Alamos National Laboratory]. [<\/em>NewScientist<\/strong> (19 March 2022, paywall)]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Always some nasty Law of Nature to invalidate your beautiful story. Or maybe you can only talk in mostly nitrogen atmosphere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In case you were thinking of writing a story in which your characters are talking in the thin atmosphere of Mars, think about this: The work, which was\u00a0presented at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference\u00a0in Texas on 8 March, also revealed that the sound travelled in an unusual way in \u2026 Continue reading