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I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.
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.
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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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.
What tha heck? You can’t just leave us hanging, How’d that play out?
Haha I was just kidding, that was a plotline on The Office.
Why would a listening device have speakers though?
Because he used a walkie talkie in the wooden mallard as a listening device and it was actually from an episode of The Office
But did you check your pens?
Haha no? What kind of a psychopath would use a secondary listening device?
The kind of psychopath that uses the first?
2 months after thruster issues: check engine light finally comes on
Classic
ChevroletBoeingNah, 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
The doors didn’t fall off. Just the front.
It’s why they had to launch it outside of the environment
Is that typical?
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.
They properly lubricated the doors with dish soap, so all is good.
Great Value dish soap, they were out of dawn
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
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.
The Final Countdown starts quietly playing next.
If Gob is on the ISS, I’ll finally respect him as a magician.
As you fall through the atmosphere at such a rate that the air catches fire…
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.
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.
To be fair, if you leave an airlock door open….
It’s quite a bit worse than a fridge.
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.
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.
But if you really want to get pedantic… you’ll probably notice the whole choking-on-vacuum-thing first.
We agree completely!
Although, it probably is the stupid kind of shit Boeing would do. An audible alarm for “oh shit you have no air!”
Have you seen PG&E rates lately?
Programming easter eggs into spaceships would be hilarious
Not so much when they did that to airplanes.
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
It also saved the airlines money because, they didn’t have to pay to have the pilots retrained on a new aircraft.
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.
It will be hilarious when this door blows off mid flight lulzzzz
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.
Why does EVERY article contain links to Twitter?
Seriously. Journalists, do something besides scroll Twitter!
I thought the Great Exodus from xitter was a matter of critical mass not yet being attained. Enough readers have to be elsewhere to get journalists elsewhere.
No, I think it’s just lazy journalists not learning new tools like Bluesky.
The only news in that story was that someone tweeted something. That is lazy. They were successful in stealing the clicks from the actual reporter.
Here is the thing. As of last week, Elon marks news that makes Trump look bad as spam (see NPR’s coverage of the Arlington Cemetery debacle).
So now the news stories not marked as spam are the news stories that are “Elon Approved”.
Why are any self respecting journalists still on Twitter hoping to publish things that Elon deems not to be spam.
I enjoyed that very brief period when Elon blocked being able to view an embedded tweet at all without logging into twitter, before they changed it to how it is now, where you can only see that one tweet but no replies, etc.
Just for that week or however long it lasted, I was so hopeful that we’d reached the end of this kind of shoddy “journalism” (“Look, here are some tweets I saw today that are kind of related to the subject of this article’s click-bait title”).
Right? I hate accidentally giving Twi(not X)tter my clicks
Investigative journalism has just become scrolling social media online because nobody answers the phone or their door to give comments in person to the media. That’s why I just post stupid, silly shit. I’m like that guy behind the “on the scene” reporter making faces and wrecking the shot.
All praise the Omnissiah.
The Machine God speaks to us.
I think it’s not happy with Boeing’s tech-priests.
It’s just the loose bolts humming.
Auto destruct sequence activated.
Also known as “Boeing Normal Operation”
It’s prepping for return, practicing the sounds it’s gonna make as it bounces off the atmosphere… Boeing, boeing, boeing
Rapid scheduled deconstruction
I’m not qualified in any sense to speculate, and so that’s exactly what I’m going to do.
My first thought is that there is a configuration happening to bring it home which we already knew, and there is a bug or test tone that was activated and since no one writing the code is there, they just didn’t notice it is still running.
I’m even less qualified and I suspect it’s aliens dropping the bass
All your base
DAFT PUNK inspired band idea.
Band: ALL OF YOUR BASS
dress like aliens.
Idk, that’s as far as I’ve gotten.
Hah!
Ah the assumption that it was tested first before being deployed to prod. Given what we know now about Boeing’s “testing” and “certification” processes, or lack thereof, that may be a big assumption.
I try to always remember People, process and product. PPP. It helps remind me that the people are just like you and I, families and waking up each day to do a job. It’s so easy for things to fall apart when there aren’t the right tools or processes in place. My failures individually or as a team never left someone in outer space but I’ve had some doozies in my career.
This isn’t addressing your comment but I guess it was on my mind. I do know that the majority of people want to do their best and I feel bad for them and those affected by a company’s poor decisions.
100% in most cases.
On the flip side, there are some employees that also seem to just not take pride in what they are doing.
There’s a similar major issue with home building in the US, and has been getting a massive viral spike from TikTok and YouTube Shorts posted by Cy Porter in AZ. He just posts short clips showing what he finds on a daily basis doing new home build inspections. The obvious complete lack of care about the end product from the builders is honestly astounding.
That’s not building an airplane where hundreds of people’s lives are relying on your job, but just the bare minimums not being followed and the attitude when it’s called out reminded me a lot of how it seems Boeing responded to all these whistleblowers when they tried to follow internal processes for quality control.
It’s upset
It’s… scared
IT’S AFRAID!
Maybe it’s Maybelline.
It has a heartbeat? Boeing what have you done?
It’s the hearts of all the whistleblowers they’ve murdered, Telltale Heart style.
It’s late, it should have become sentient Aug 29th
Event Horizon.
Starliner boot up noise stuck in a bootloop.
But seriously, it’s a bit disturbing if a machine attached to your living quarters is malfunctioning.
one that, if it’s already malfunctioning thrusters begin malfunctioning worse, could fuck the entire station… yeah. pucker factor 5/5 when it starts making wonky noises
Sounds like the hamster wants out.
Oh god…
Hope these guys are alright, it is a boeing
It’s probably nothing, just jump in and come back already guys!
