>I think you have it all wrong! We've advanced science and technology. As evidence, watch the opening of the original Star Trek. When the Enterprise swooshes by, you'll find that we've figured out how to create sound in the vacuum of space! *G*

Sadly that's not confined just to Star Trek. They're all at it now. It's as if they learnt nothing from Kubrik. 2001 was all the more realistic and impressive to me cos of its silence. If sound could travel through a vacuum we'd all be deafened by the roar of the sun. Talking of which, why, when the sun gets round to hitting a mirror, or lens, or something, in those underground chambre movies, does it suddenly make a high-pitched zinging noise? And why, in all horror movies, when the baddie draws a knife, does it ALWAYS make a ringing noise, like steel on steel, even if he's pulled it out of his rubber underpants? :-)
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>But I agree with you...all the beeping really isn't necessary. My favorite thing to complain about in the movies is when the villain plants a time bomb, sets the timer and leaves. The timer always beeps as each number changes, assuring that the hero will have an easier time finding it and diffuse it with 5 or less seconds remaining.

Yeah, and if I had James Bond captive, I'd just run him through the head with a steak knife, immediately, rather than take him to the nerve-centre of my operation, show him the ropes, then leave him hand-cuffed to a hot water pipe and forget about him.
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