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White noise to help you sleep:

Enterprise engine idle (24 hours of it!)
[YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPoqNeR3_UA[/YOUTUBE]

Ambient noise from the bridge:
[YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb3Yxz8bxj8[/YOUTUBE]

Sleeping quarters ambient engine noise. This one sounds like it might be the same as the engine idle one:
[YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbWgn2nDFIc[/YOUTUBE]
 
In outer space, no one can hear you scream... I mean except when an alien that fell out of a space ship and you can pretty much hear everything else.
 
Why does the Enterprise have ambient engine noise in sleeping quarters anyway?
 
Jayjay said:
Why does the Enterprise have ambient engine noise in sleeping quarters anyway?
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Or ambient life support, maybe. Ventilation, heating, the little cleaning robots scurrying around when you're not looking, the sonic shower echoes....
 
Jayjay said:
Why does the Enterprise have ambient engine noise in sleeping quarters anyway?
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I wondered that, too. Surely several hundred years of knowledge and technology could make sleeping quarters sound proof, and maybe options controlled by residents. I'd probably choose to turn the engine noise on. I like it.
 
hylidae said:
Jayjay said:
Why does the Enterprise have ambient engine noise in sleeping quarters anyway?
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I wondered that, too. Surely several hundred years of knowledge and technology could make sleeping quarters sound proof, and maybe options controlled by residents. I'd probably choose to turn the engine noise on. I like it.
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Well, anyone sleeping next to Riker's quarters would probably need a bit more sound proofing.
 
I think the steady background noise would be reassuring on a complex machine that has a tendency to turn itself into a threat to all life on board with regularity.
After 20 years on submarines, where the ventilation fans died just about every time there was a problem, I've spent the last 15 years jumping out of my chair when the thermostat turns off the central air. That sudden silence as the air ducts still always leaves me wondering if it's a fire aft or an electrical problem forward or what....

I imagine the engineering staff has a similar reaction on the Enterprise whenever the warp field envelope collapses, just from the background sound changing. Or the integrity field stops making the walls vibrate at that certain frequency. Or the fans stop pumping air into a stateroom that no longer has integrity against the vacuum.
 
Keith&Co. said:
I think the steady background noise would be reassuring on a complex machine that has a tendency to turn itself into a threat to all life on board with regularity.
After 20 years on submarines, where the ventilation fans died just about every time there was a problem, I've spent the last 15 years jumping out of my chair when the thermostat turns off the central air. That sudden silence as the air ducts still always leaves me wondering if it's a fire aft or an electrical problem forward or what....

I imagine the engineering staff has a similar reaction on the Enterprise whenever the warp field envelope collapses, just from the background sound changing. Or the integrity field stops making the walls vibrate at that certain frequency. Or the fans stop pumping air into a stateroom that no longer has integrity against the vacuum.
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They were probably swayed to calm by the fact they knew that somehow the plasma conduits and/or the deflector dish would be used to solve whatever heck problem the ship was suffering from. They were probably more upset about the damn flashing yellow or red lights that were keeping them from taking a space nap.

I can just imagine Geordi sitting down reading the latest issue of Plasma Conduit Weekly. Front cover, "Plasma Conduits save Enterprise again!" "What to do with your conduits when they aren't filled with plasma?" "Check out Miss Conduit '87" "What does the latest Plasma Conduit Recall Mean to You?"
 
Well, when only trekkers used the word, we were all trekkies.
Until that became famous enough for the mundanes to try to use it to insult.
So we adopted Trekker to distinguish the bonding term of the geek from the dismissive term of the imagination-hampered.

It's probably time to reclaim trekkies as a term of pride. Fukka buncha people don't grok Spock.
 
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