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Boeing’s Starliner started making a repeating ‘pulsing’ sound yesterday (www.theverge.com)

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[–] [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!”