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Sound cannot travel through vacuums. It needs a medium for its waves to process, meaning the molecules need to vibrate in order for sound to be heard. Space is a good example of a vacuum that sound cannot travel through. In the movie Alien, they tag line : "In space, no one can hear you scream," and that is true.

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