Answer to Question #154995 in Physics for Stella Marie Dominski

Question

pirate decides to become a space pirate and boards a spaceship. As he passes another spaceship he decides to go for a space walk and yell hello to the passing ship. Explain why pirate is wasting his time

Answer 1

The pirat is wasting his time because there is a vacuum in space (instead of air on Earth). That means that he can't yell hello (the sound wave can't propagate in vacuum since there are very few particles to vibrate, bump each other and propagate that wave). That's why the space pirate is wasting his time.