• NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip
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    2 months ago

    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.

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      2 months ago

      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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      2 months ago

      2 months after thruster issues: check engine light finally comes on

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      2 months ago

      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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      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

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      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.

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        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.

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          2 months ago

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

          It’s quite a bit worse than a fridge.

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            2 months ago

            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.

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              2 months ago

              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.

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                But if you really want to get pedantic… you’ll probably notice the whole choking-on-vacuum-thing first.

                We agree completely!

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                  2 months ago

                  Although, it probably is the stupid kind of shit Boeing would do. An audible alarm for “oh shit you have no air!”

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            2 months ago

            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.

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            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

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              It also saved the airlines money because, they didn’t have to pay to have the pilots retrained on a new aircraft.

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            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.

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      2 months ago

      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.