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[–] [email protected] 111 points 3 months ago (8 children)

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] 57 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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] 22 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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] 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What tha heck? You can't just leave us hanging, How'd that play out?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago

Haha I was just kidding, that was a plotline on The Office.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Why would a listening device have speakers though?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago

Because he used a walkie talkie in the wooden mallard as a listening device and it was actually from an episode of The Office

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

But did you check your pens?

[–] [email protected] 51 points 3 months ago (1 children)

2 months after thruster issues: check engine light finally comes on

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 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] 26 points 3 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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (4 children)

The doors didn’t fall off. Just the front.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

It's why they had to launch it outside of the environment

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Is that typical?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

In recent years, many things fell off Boeing products. Just thought I mention it. One of it was a door, or rather, where a door had been.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They properly lubricated the doors with dish soap, so all is good.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Great Value dish soap, they were out of dawn

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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] 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The Final Countdown starts quietly playing next.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

If Gob is on the ISS, I'll finally respect him as a magician.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

As you fall through the atmosphere at such a rate that the air catches fire…

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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

It’s quite a bit worse than a fridge.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Have you seen PG&E rates lately?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

We agree completely!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months 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] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Programming easter eggs into spaceships would be hilarious

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Not so much when they did that to airplanes.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I would like to point out that MCAS was only a thing because Boeing wanted to certify the 737 MAX as just another variant with no additional pilot training or certification needed. But the differences made the plane maneuver and react to input differently. So MCAS was developed to try and compensate for that. And then they didn't train pilots on the new system, because it was being certified as a regular variant that should not have different flight characteristics. The FAA accepted their explanation at face value and rubber stamped it basically, and in the process saved Boeing Billions of dollars of additional development costs.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_MAX_certification

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

It also saved the airlines money because, they didn't have to pay to have the pilots retrained on a new aircraft.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

It will be hilarious when this door blows off mid flight lulzzzz

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

So, I'm not the best passenger on air planes, I usually just remain in fetal position for the duration of the flight.

I was taking a flight to Shanghai with Air China and it was a relatively smooth flight. I was in unusually good spirits, even managed to watch a movie. Then we landed. After touching ground the whole plane was flashing in red lights. It took me like 2 minutes of erratic panic to realize that they were displaying a waving Chinese flag on the screens and thus it was flashing red. Should've fucking given me a heads-up, man.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 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] 2 points 3 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.