Re: SETI public: sound velocity in space?

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> significant and easily available "universal constant" like the velocity of
> light in space is, but I'm finding it a very hard bit of information to
> track down.

Space isn't a perfect vacuum. I imagine that the soundwaves are propagating
in a very tenuous gas and the velocity will depend on the temperature,
density, etc. of that gas.

Sound cannot propagate in a true vacuum.

I have not seen the articles in question.

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