• @[email protected]
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    1293 months 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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      613 months 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.

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        263 months ago

        This happened to me at work, a coworker planted a listening device in a wooden mallard and gave it to me as a gift. He was trying to collect evidence against me for attempted blackmail. I put my phone next to it and heard the staticky feedback which gave it away.

        • @[email protected]
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          83 months 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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      273 months 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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      3 months ago

      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

          • @[email protected]
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            23 months 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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        113 months 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.

          • partial_accumen
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            33 months 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.

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      43 months 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.