stackyFACTSThe future of space travel sounds suspiciously like basic office supplies.
The future of space travel sounds suspiciously like basic office supplies. In the 1960s, long before digital sound libraries existed, Foley artists had to get weird to invent the 23rd century. To create the futuristic pneumatic swoosh of the Enterprise's automatic doors opening, an engineer just took a piece of paper and violently yanked it out of a paper envelope. Millions of nerds have been imitating the sound of distressed stationary for over fifty years.
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