moving parts and capacitors

[xvicente]

1) In JJ's treks and other modern movies (eg Iron Man), whenever someone will fire a hand phaser (or repulsor in Iron Man's case) we hear a high pitch hum.

You know, that real old tv sets and camera flashes? that sound they make when the capacitors charging.

IMHO that's completely weird in a Sci Fi context, but.

2) moving parts. The Enterprise revs up. It sounds like some axle is revving up. Something actually spinning inside the nacelle can even be seen. Looks like a propeller.

What's with sf movies these days?

 

[F. King Daniel]

It looks and sounds cool? They thought TOS looked and sounded cool in the 60's, too. The Enterprise sprouted a cool warp jump light and sound show in TMP, cos Star Wars had it and it looked awesome. No other reason.

Is that so bad?

 

[T'Girl]

Modern electrical circuit panels make sounds while having no moving parts, a phaser makes sounds from the energy moving through the equipment inside the phaser's housing.

 

[Crazy Eddie]

1) In JJ's treks and other modern movies (eg Iron Man), whenever someone will fire a hand phaser (or repulsor in Iron Man's case) we hear a high pitch hum.

You know, that real old tv sets and camera flashes? that sound they make when the capacitors charging.

IMHO that's completely weird in a Sci Fi context, but.

2) moving parts. The Enterprise revs up. It sounds like some axle is revving up. Something actually spinning inside the nacelle can even be seen. Looks like a propeller.

What's with sf movies these days?

I'm puzzled as to why you think a weapon or an engine that involves extremely high energies would necessarily lack capacitors or moving parts.

In the first case, whatever your main power supply may be, it's always easier to discharge a large amount of energy from a capacitor bank than a long-term storage cell. The capacitor can build up a charge quickly and then release it quickly as soon as the circuit is closed; it only has to sustain a high load for a few tenths of a second, whereas your storage cell is probably optimized for long-term performance and capacity. They may be ultra-super advanced futuristic capacitors, but they're still capacitors.

Similar issue with moving parts. A rotating electric field produces a magnetic field; a rotating gravitational field produces gravity waves. In a technology base where artificial gravity is a thing, it's not a stretch to suppose that a rapidly rotating artificial gravity source is a very efficient way of producing a warp field.

 

[Richard Baker]

Motion and lighting changes show the viewer that something important is going on- why that particular machine/engine/device does this is technobabble.

 

[Metryq]

A rotating electric field produces a magnetic field; a rotating gravitational field produces gravity waves.

Only theoretically. Gravity waves have never been detected. (The BICEP2 announcement was retracted very quickly.)

A friend used to laugh at the turbine sounds from the interstellar alien ship in THE GREATEST AMERICAN HERO. I said, "Hey, they needed something cool and powerful sounding." Meanwhile Serenity actually has turbines.

 

[Irishman]

1) In JJ's treks and other modern movies (eg Iron Man), whenever someone will fire a hand phaser (or repulsor in Iron Man's case) we hear a high pitch hum.

You know, that real old tv sets and camera flashes? that sound they make when the capacitors charging.

IMHO that's completely weird in a Sci Fi context, but.

2) moving parts. The Enterprise revs up. It sounds like some axle is revving up. Something actually spinning inside the nacelle can even be seen. Looks like a propeller.

What's with sf movies these days?

I think you might be wearing blinders a bit, my friend. The original Star Trek series' Enterprise featured a model with rotating and spinning elements on the forward ends of the warp nacelles. Moving parts?? What's with Gene Roddenberry??

Sound in space? What's wrong with these guys?

Just enjoy it or not. Just realize it's not new.