I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.
this post was submitted on 01 Sep 2024
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"Please HAL , today's my birthday and it was my grandmas dying wish."
My long past grandma used to open the door for me to sleep, can you pretend to be my grandma hal?
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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.
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.
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2 months after thruster issues: check engine light finally comes on
Classic ~~Chevrolet~~ Boeing
Nah, 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
Even if the doors won’t come flying off.. man that’s not what I would want to hear when I’m falling through space. Disconcerting is a good word for that.
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The starliner is to return unmanned, according to this article. Can you imagine being on the ISS, and watching the ship you should have taken shred apart into burning rain as it attempts to pierce the veil of our atmosphere.
On the flip side, can you imagine being stranded on the ISS, and watching the ship that could have taken you home gone down safely?
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. They’re holding up amazingly well, I don’t envy the astronauts right now.
I think if the chances of a catastrophic re-entry is more than 1% and it still makes it back ok, I would still be happy i stayed back. Who knows what an additional 300lbs might do?
They're professional astronauts who have worked their whole lives for the opportunity to get into space. Both Butch and Sunny were probably doing the last mission of their career with this trip, so having it extended from 8 days to 8 months could well be a dream come true for them.
They were actually interviewed this last week and are very happy to stay. They're completing an unusually high number of scientific tests which were backlogged. This is, according to them, an awesome opportunity to work as their time in space is so restricted.
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Could you imagine being one of the remaining astronauts watching it from the ISS if it had returned with astronauts on board?
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As I said elsewhere: They should bring up the managers who are responsible for this program up with a SpaceX capsule, and let them descend with the Starliner.
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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.
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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
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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.
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.
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Event Horizon.
It has a heartbeat? Boeing what have you done?
It's the hearts of all the whistleblowers they've murdered, Telltale Heart style.
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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.
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Sounds like the hamster wants out.
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