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-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!”
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!”