Boeing’s Starliner started making a repeating ‘pulsing’ sound Saturday
www.theverge.com
It’s probably nothing.
  • 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!