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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I think the biggest obstacle would be from your perspective it would just be a steady annoying sound. TIEs only have their characteristic howl when doing a flyby. But if you're aware of that and you one want it for how it sounds as you drive by, I'd think just playing the tone through the speakers would do.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's the Doppler effect that creates those cool sounds from the bystanders perspective.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Which, of course, would make listening to that ion engine drone worthwhile.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There's an audio illusion that's somewhat analogous to the barber pole illusion


instead of a pattern which appears to always go up or down, you can have a sound which seems to always go up or down in pitch: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepard_tone

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I personally find continuous impossible pitch shifting more distracting than a constant howl, but YMMV.