News: "Smartphone fired into space to see if screams can be heard"

In space no one can hear you scream.

Naturally, this is speaking like we are assuming there is someone to hear you screaming... Besides the aliens.

So if you want to read the original article, follow this link, preferential with your smartphone: Let's go to space!

Science is great. And I'm an expectant scientist. But don't you think it's astonishing how ordinary simple things like a smartphone can contribute to science?

I mean, we're always joking about smartphones and some of their overly useless apps.

Hmm.. I think this is funny, where is my Laughing App...? Siri?

But now they're telling us they want to send a smartphone into space to realise some experiments, among them if there is really no sound in space.

Okay, it's really no big deal. I mean, it's supposed to be an undeniable fact that there is no sound. In a vacuum like in space, there are no molecules (but other smaller particles, for example the photons, the particles which transmit light which have no mass), so no sound waves can be transmitted from one place to another.

Even though, it's so strange to know that the little piece of computer engineering you hold in your hands daily can be used for supposedly complex stuff like measurements in the space.

Science is progressing with such a speed these days, it's simply exciting!

With all its disciplines, it affects our life in so many different ways. Thanks to the devenlopment of computers, very complicated calculations and previsions can be done nowadays. The humanity hasn't progressed so much like in the last few decades.

Obviously there are also the bad sides of this progress. There will always be people who abuse of science for their intrigues. But it will be always like that, everything has a good and a bad part and it would be unwise to not make use of the marvelous possibilities the science offers us. As I already explained in another post, there have to be limits, but there will never be any limits to human's curiosity. 

As I read somebody saying the other day:

"It's such a great time to be alive!"