Things space isn’t: Space is not an ocean, is not two-dimensional, has no substance or friction, is nearly impossible to hide in, and is dead silent. Some shows or movies tend to try to make space seem like something more familiar, like the air planes fly in or the ocean boats and submarines travel through. This is done because the average person understands that easier without needed explanation. Thing is though, why bother setting a story in space if you aren’t going to even do space like it really is? I look at shows where space ships treat it like a large ocean and only movie forward, back, and left or right and am left thinking not only is that not how it is, but if that is what they wanted why not set the story on some ocean and use a fictional world if they didn’t want an Earth story? Also a lot of stories show space ships running their engines constantly, which is based on how aircraft need to do that to keep moving. In space it is really different due to the lack of friction, which comes from no atmosphere or any sort of medium. The same is why you can’t really hide in space, even if you can’t be visually seen, you give off heat, and in the cold black of space, any heat source sticks out if you look at it the right way (an if you were there, you would be looking that way). Also the biggest one is that there is no sound because of the lack of atmosphere or any other medium. Sound exists due to vibrations in matter like air or even water, but with nothing, you hear nothing.
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