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Where was this scientifically inaccurate “sound”?

I just came back from the movie. In most of the scenes with sound, the character was in physical contact with a vehicle. Since humans can “hear” just fine through bone conduction (eg bone conduction speakers), this is not unrealistic.

For example, when the micro-meteor shower came by, the ISS would be positively “screaming” to anyone in physical contact because of the bombardment from the shower of particles too small to see – the “micro” in micro-meteorites.

I can certainly nit pick – Sandra Bullock had surprisingly strong hands and was improbably good with a fire extinguisher –

… but folks, it’s a movie. By Hollywood standards, the physics gets an A+. Indeed, the fateful scene between Sandra Bullock and George Clooney would make a fine for a freshman physics final.

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