dantheclamman@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoBoeing’s Starliner started making a repeating ‘pulsing’ sound yesterdaywww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square105fedilinkarrow-up1395arrow-down19 cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1386arrow-down1external-linkBoeing’s Starliner started making a repeating ‘pulsing’ sound yesterdaywww.theverge.comdantheclamman@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square105fedilink cross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squarepartial_accumen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·4 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.
minus-squareFuglyDuck@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 months agoTo be fair, if you leave an airlock door open…. It’s quite a bit worse than a fridge.
minus-squarepartial_accumen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 months agoI 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.
minus-squareFuglyDuck@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 months agosound 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.
minus-squarepartial_accumen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 months ago But if you really want to get pedantic… you’ll probably notice the whole choking-on-vacuum-thing first. We agree completely!
minus-squareFuglyDuck@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoAlthough, it probably is the stupid kind of shit Boeing would do. An audible alarm for “oh shit you have no air!”
minus-squarejaybone@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 months agoHave you seen PG&E rates lately?
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.
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?