Space Is Noisy/Quotes

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I'm on the bridge with my boyz, motherfucker

The ship engines make noise, motherfucker
Narrator: Note to sci-fi purists: The sound effect in this panel was provided from the perspective of the F'sherl-ganni aboard the habitat Petey used as a shield, rather than from the perspective of the reader. No email, please.

Yes, you can hear "boom!" in space. It's in Star Wars. Star Wars.

"Why should they be afraid that people outside the ship are going to hear them? Sound doesn't carry in a vacuum! They could have Slayer performing in the galley while shoving a cat in a garbage disposal AND NOBODY OUTSIDE THE SHIP WOULD HEAR ANYTHING!"
"The Kilrathi bomb the station in their very loud spacecraft."
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"Wow it sure is quiet out there! I thought space was full of opera singers."
- "George Lucas was once told there were no sounds in airless space. He didn't believe it. Today, George Lucas is a millionaire."
Ambush Bug Stocking Stuffer, Keith Giffen and Robert Loren Fleming
"What I wouldn't give for the maddening silence of space right about now."