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

submitted 3 months ago by dantheclamman to c/nottheonion

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[–] partial_accumen 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

To be fair, if you leave an airlock door open….

It’s quite a bit worse than a fridge.

[–] partial_accumen 3 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.

[–] FuglyDuck 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.

[–] partial_accumen 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!

[–] FuglyDuck 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!”

[–] jaybone 3 points 3 months ago

Have you seen PG&E rates lately?