• @[email protected]
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    12918 days ago

    I mean, it is incredibly disconcerting.

    But it isn’t a mechanical noise. It is a noise coming through the speakers themselves. As many have pointed out, it is almost definitely feedback of some form.

    Definitely something to get sorted before you do anything TOO critical (feedback can potentially be a precursor to electrical or systems failure) but not a sign that doors are going to fall off imminently.

    • @[email protected]
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      6118 days ago

      It is a noise coming through the speakers themselves. As many have pointed out, it is almost definitely feedback of some form.

      Like back in the day when leaving a 2G GSM phone next to some computer speakers, it would make certain buzzes as it was receiving a text message or phone call.

        • @[email protected]
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          817 days ago

          Nah, Boeing would have made the trip without saying anything and had to hire hit men for the people who knew about it when a sudden door forms upon reentry

    • @[email protected]
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      2718 days ago

      Even if the doors won’t come flying off… man that’s not what I would want to hear when I’m falling through space. Disconcerting is a good word for that.

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      but not a sign the doors are going to fall off imminently.

      I don’t know about that, with explosive bolts being a legitimate rocket part I would not put it past Boeing to mix them up

    • FuglyDuck
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      518 days ago

      I’m wondering if it’s not some kind of assistive thing that got turned on randomly because it was up there too long.

      For example, for docking, playing a sound that changed pitched as you got closer, etc.

      That or an Easter egg engineers buried as a joke among themselves.

          • @[email protected]
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            217 days ago

            Hey now, you can burn yourself with compressive heating just fine down here on earth. Specifically by accidentally touching the pipe between the pump and tank on my air compressor the other day.

      • partial_accumen
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        1118 days ago

        I’m wondering if it’s not some kind of assistive thing that got turned on randomly because it was up there too long.

        Boeing levering the high technology of my refrigerator automatically alerting when I leave the door open.

        • FuglyDuck
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          318 days ago

          To be fair, if you leave an airlock door open….

          It’s quite a bit worse than a fridge.

          • partial_accumen
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            317 days ago

            I know we’re joking here, but if you leave an airlock open exposed to hard vacuum you’re not going to hear any kind of audio alerts because there’s no air to transmit the sound.

            • FuglyDuck
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              317 days ago

              sound will also transmit through the physical structure, so you can feel the vibrations if your touching walls.

              But if you really want to get pedantic… you’ll probably notice the whole choking-on-vacuum-thing first.

              • partial_accumen
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                217 days ago

                But if you really want to get pedantic… you’ll probably notice the whole choking-on-vacuum-thing first.

                We agree completely!

                • FuglyDuck
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                  117 days ago

                  Although, it probably is the stupid kind of shit Boeing would do. An audible alarm for “oh shit you have no air!”

    • @[email protected]
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      417 days ago

      Given that the greatest amount of issues they had back on the ground and which led to the program being months or years late were software problems, this does not surprise me the slightest.