Boeing’s Starliner started making a repeating ‘pulsing’ sound Saturday
www.theverge.com
It’s probably nothing.
  • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    2 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.

    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 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.

      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.

      • partial_accumen@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 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.

        • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 months ago

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

          It’s quite a bit worse than a fridge.

          • partial_accumen@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            2 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.

            • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              2 months 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@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                2 months ago

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

                We agree completely!