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Loud Metallic Noise Heard at ISS
Z4rd0Z writes "Russian Cosmonauts at the International Space Station today heard a loud drumlike noise for the second time since November. The sound seemed to be coming from the same place as before. In February a space walk to find the source of the sound was cut short."
some type of alien space drummer trying, in vain, to be noticed doing the solo from inagaddadavida?
Neil Peart was found to have stowed away on board.
Whatever it is wants in?
The difference between a cosmonaut and an astronaut being what, exactly?
10 bucks says when they open the door, it's a pair of spacewalking Jehovah's Witnesses.
IAALS.
if this is ever funny, now's the time, and as an AC, i'm not even karma whoring
perhaps this is where Iraq hid them
Ah! So that's where they've been hiding?
Someone call up Lance Bass - this would be a great time to send him up there!
Then again, one of the russians might have brought some duct tape...
Cheers,
Justin Wick
Stewart Copeland, is that you up there drumming again?
They send Bruce Willis to find the source of the sound...
Which happens to be a gateway to another dimension...
With an asteroid the size of Texas headed from the otherside to earth...
SAVE US MR. WILLIS!!!
You've saved the earth over a dozen times now, what's one more?
cue sentimental music
No Dave, I haven't taken up the drums. I think you should go check on that noise, Dave. No Dave, you don't need any of your emergency equipment, I'll keep you nice and safe Dave. Now go have a good time on your space walk, Dave.
It's a poltergeist: the ISS was built on an Indian cemetary.
Ahhh...the great dumpster continuum. Many a free computer will be found there. -- sowth (748135)
There's only one cosmonaut on the ISS, Alexander Kaleri. The other current occupant, Michael Foale, is an astronaut.
I saw it last night on the screen!
session 11
BOB: I-I don't mean a man, I mean... I don't know what I mean. I mean, maybe a... what'd they call them during the war? You know, the p-pilots? Gremlins! Gremlins. You remember the stories of the...
... He jumps away whenever anyone might see him. Except me. Honey, he's there. I realize what this sounds like. Do I look insane?
Julia just stares at him.
BOB: Julia, don't look at me like that.
JULIA: Bob...
BOB: I am not imagining it. I'm not imagining it. He's out there.
Julia glances at the window.
BOB: Don't look. He's not there now. He...
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I *told* you not to put the helmets in the dryer!
I have no problem with your religion until you decide it's reason to deprive others of the truth.
I didn't know Darl McBride owned a space shuttle...
*BANG* Let me back in you assholes! This isn't funny!
Vote for global prefs bug
...blah, forget it.
Dave Bowman returning home?
Well...Space Ghost isn't on anymore, right?
.... favorite XFiles or Outer Limits story here
It's just those punks from X-prize knocking and running off... whippersnappers!
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... those damn Polish astonauts knocking on the door again, giggling with glee.
/so how come a land-locked country came to have submarines anyway?
yes, we have no bananas
Aside from all the funny comments (and btw I was bustin a gut over here) ya gotta think that would be some scary shit!
Those guys up there have families and what-not that gotta be pretty on-edge right now. I for one hope they pull through.
bash: rtfm: command not found
some astronaught left her/his sneakers in the dryer?
Someone call Ripley.
Why not call maintance and have them come check it out and fix it. I hope they got the extended warrenty and undercoating on the ISS. Who's got the receipt?
They first heard this potentially dangerous noise in November, as a possible precursor to total systems meltdown and other heinous stuff, and they didn't go to check it out until February?
I know they were looking for experience, but they shouldn't have hired management team from the Mir.
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It's the newspaper...
...tonight.
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Hey guy, Do you think that astronaust/cosmonauts live in vacuum?
The iss is pressurized, thus, sound can propagate INSIDE the ISS
So who crapped themselves first?
Russian or American?
"Two dollars!!!"
What's Russian for "fool of a Took!"?
Of course I don't think so :-)
But if they can hear the sound, the source must be inside the ISS, or on the body of the ISS.
That means there must have some metal things of the ISS which was broken. So I don't see anything about alien.
Otherwise, the source must be in the space, where is vaccum, so how can they hear the sounds?
i first read the headline as "Loud Metallica Noise Heard at ISS"
and thought that sb was listening to Metallica way too loud on earth, so they could hear it at ISS
Lars Ulrich! Get your ass down here and start working on the next album, goddamnit!
Here's a trick I learned from all the noisy (usually metalic and exhaust sounds) Honda Civics driving around town... If you don't feel like fixing the source of the noise, drown it out with head-splitting bass!
I'm sure the engineers at NASA will have no trouble designing a high-powered space space station stereo system with plenty of earth-shattering-kaboom bass. After you've got that bitchin' system, you can focus on more important things - like installing a nice spoiler or some spinner solar panels. Even when you're in orbit, your ride must be pimp.
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DRM is like antifreeze, to the MPAA/RIAA it's sweet, to the consumers it's poison.
The real Metallica is back after having been missing since 1991! Excellent!
An inanimate carbon rod?
With all the suspect noises it may not be long before they DO live in a vaccume!
That a Better Off Dead reference made it before a Lifeforce comment.
I was thinking along the lines of, "Look out the window. If she's naked don't let her in."
Or the truly obscure, I guess the Lion added a drum solo.
Nothing to worry about,
Its just GNAA trying to find out if the cosmonauts are ex russian saliors!
On second thoughts they batter panic and protect their ARSEes!
It's Homer Simpson. I'm sure of it.
Besides, there are no sounds in space. They're always vacuuming up there.
I've been trying to enough funding together to get he and his "crew" together for a manned mission to sample soalr prominences.
They have taken the bridge and the second hall.
We have barred the gates, but cannot hold them for long.
The ground shakes. Drums, drums in the deep.
We cannot get out. A shadow moves in the dark.
We cannot get out...
They are coming...
The same way you can hear the sound if someone taps on an airtight window. The vibrations travel through the glass. They only have to be in air when they hit your ear. That is it in a vacuum is irrelevant: all it means is that whatever is making the noise is touching the ISS (i.e. part of it.)
I think if I were investgating an unknown noise, and then my spacesuite malfunctioned, bits of it becoming damp would be a certainty!
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An cosmonaut drops his freeze-dried ice cream down a shaft, it hits with a thud, and then they hear strange drumming sounds...next thing you know, the ISS will be swarming with Goblins.
What a waste of a perfectly good space station.
Ergonomica Auctorita Illico!
No wonder, they can hear: THUN-DER!
One of the *nauts is making a really bad April fool.
You're making an emotional plea of sorts. Some people don't respond to things well in that mode. I'm one, and I can't tell you the number of ways that's held me back. Here's a guy who said, "Wow, I'm so differnt from these people, maybe it's time for me to try an touch base for a little reality check." So he threw his experience out there to see how it would bounce off the "collective consciousness" so to speak. Clearly he got a partial answer. "You do not mimic well enough. You are evil."
And I can't speak for him, obviously, but for me it's like a pantimime, or a sort of dance. It's not that I don't want to participate, in fact I'd like nothing more. But that layer of social grease (or perhaps grace) is completely invisible to me. Even when my father unexpectedly died from pnemonia brought on by acute lymphoma, I didn't cry during any part of it. Part of it was the shock. But there's something else there too. I understood the loss of all the things that would never be or be said. But they were lost, and there was nothing left to say about it. So I flew back home, and took my chemistry midterm the next day.
I am not the person I would wish to be. Rather I am the sum of many things, not the least of which who people demand I be, and how they enforced those demands. Who's to say what might have been were one freed from the small evils. Which of course we have little control over.
But it is interesting to note that you've more than a little empathy for those you've never seen, let alone spoken with, who are at times farther away from you than any other humans, but a person who you can speak with deserved to little in your estimation.
Which brings me to the one great lesson I learned from my father's death. He wasn't a great man, not in any durable metric at any rate. But many people wanted to express their condolances, people who weren't family. A great many more people than I've ever known by name. They all knew me, and they all had some observation, or story about him they wanted to share. It turns out the only positive differences anyone ever makes are the small kindnesses they do. Anything great, it would more or less be done, the form might be different, but the effect would be the same. Anything that's moderatly important will be done, with or without you, and maybe not to your standards, but certainly good enough that it gets the job done, even if its done in India. So the only things we add (aside from assorted evils), anyone adds, are the little kindnesses. The door held, the dollar given for the candy machine, the favor done, the small uncounted extras that can make a crappy day better, or even good.
So, your allusion to the work of Dr Suess seems almost recursive in its irony. At least from my particular pearch. Of course Cindy Lou Who is a standard of character many laud, but few match.
I am pretty sure the alien suffers out there, there is surely a movie to make about it.
This must be the monolith ! (even if is 3 years too late...)
heh heh, yeah, heh heh heh DOYOYOYOYOYOYNGGGGGG heh heh cool heh heh
it's just too typical for the russians to deliver an april-1 joke one day late.,.,,
Rooooxaaanne...you don't have to put on the red planet
Those days are over, you don't have to sell your body to the night sky.
Roooooxannne...you don't have to wear that space-suit tonight Space-walking for money, you don't care if it's wrong or if it's right
I put it down for a minute, and when I came back, it had gone...
...the...trademark pauses...which....build up....tension.
It's amazing what you can do with just a handful of stones...
- Clark Kent (Superman)
did someone forget to shut the screendoor?
come on guys, were you born in a barn!?
"Before humanity, the stars shone throughout the heavens. After humanity [has gone], the stars will continue to shine"
It is the Martians fu*king with thier heads...
Feed my eyes...
My guess is that its thermally related, and some piece of metal has a bistable position, and has been driven to the alternate position from forces resulting from thermal expansion.
I would think the only way that something could be traveling in orbit so closely to them as to bump and not go through is if they were dumping debris ( possibly a bag of toilet waste? ) which upon ejection interacted with solar wind or orbital forces to garner enough velocity to come back and ping them. Really sounds unlikely though.
Don't quote me for facts. This is just my best guess after reading what I saw on it.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
We've dealt with this kind of thing before.
What happens is that sometimes, while the station is being constructed, a religious cult will build a secret level into the station and sneak in a Zarg. These are large, rather deadly predators, who might hang around for years before a suspicious person notices that there's one level less on the station than the schematics say there should be. They eat maintenance workers, but for some reason leave the cultists alone.
Happens all the time.
Upstairs Dog, Downstairs People.
Its just a busted AE-35 unit. Once the AI onboard the ship discovers the faulty equipment, it will eradicate the vermin (ie american influence on space station ).
Anybody else remember that one from SNL? From the original cast in the mid '70s. Seriously funning shit.
My God it's like an epidemic.
You People Suck!!!
Loud Noise: bang, bang,bang....
Spaceshark: "plumber, here to fix the airleak"
Nauts: "fix the air leak?"
Spaceshark: "plumber"
Nauts: "we already fixed the leak."
Spaceshark: "pizza"
Nauts: "we didn't order pizza!"
Spaceshark:"flowers"
Nauts: "you're that crazy shark, aren't you?!?!"
Spaceshark: "no, I'm from the starship Voyager"
Nauts: "starship Voyager? OK, we'll let you in."
jumanji
A lot. Why do you think we responded so heavily to a story with a built-in drum roll?
HEY!
(ba dum bum)
But seriously folks...
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It is an elephant wearing a crash helmet riding a motorcycle while a seal bangs a kipper on a table.
Imagine my surprise when I knocked on that door.......we are from the government - we are here to help...
Did anyone else read the headline as 'Loud Metallica Noise Heard at ISS'?
Black Woman at the door: You folks want some pancakes?
Peter: No, thank you! See, the worst we've got is Jemima's Witnesses
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
--E.C. Stanton
This is the first time I've seen so many comments modded as "Funny" on slashdot.
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You know, I get frusterated when people won't admit a problem, but really, that has nothing on Foale and his counterpart.
FOALE: "Uh, Houston? We've got something, uh, drumming on our outer hull. Sounds kind of like a sheet of metal bending on itself or something."
HOUSTON: "Okay, let's take a look...well...nope, everything's working fine."
FOALE: "Really, it's kind of loud. And this is the second time -- last time we didn't get to try and find out what was going on."
HOUSTON: (thinks "Darn astronauts, it's all in their heads") "Well, we're all green here. You could wait a couple months to take a look at it last time. You can probably wait to do anything on this until the new guys arrive.
FOALE: (thinks "Dammit, I'm sitting here in a little pocket of air a foot away from hard vacuum and something is *breaking*.") "Yeah, how about we do a spacewalk sooner."
HOUSTON: "I'll 'escalate' the problem and we'll see what we can do. Just sit tight up there."
May we never see th
Take a look at them. The conclusion I come to is that this story should not have been accepted. It's science-related, space-related, but what can the average Slashdot reader say about it? The funny-rated comments aren't funny, IMHO, and most anything else is so speculative to be irrelevant.
In this case, people shouldn't have been given the chance to comment. Including me.
"Answer me. Did you go inside the Sphere?"
"They went in the Sphere one by one, and they became more and more afraid of each other until they killed each other off, and we're doing the same thing."
Reminds me of my car.. loud metallic noises can be heard from it at any given time; not just for the second time
" second time since November...In February a space walk to find the source of the sound was cut short.""
Cut short. So. You're sitting up there, in a really rather hostile environment, running out of cash, spending most of your time keeping this thing alive (and, by extension, yourself), listen to the americans whine about risking their shuttle, and... you HAVEN'T GONE AND LOOKED?
What, you need a form in triplicate? You don't think that this might be dangerous to ignore? Yes, a walk outside isn't very safe either, but why wait for the brainless bovinocrats at ground control to tell you to step outside?
Sheesh. If the ISS is *that* bound by the buraeucrazy, we might as well forget about it. It'll never turn into anything useful, that you may be sure of.
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goes boink?
Really, what is this? Comedy Central? It is quite a serious thing, and I want to "read more" just to find out interresting ideas, and all i find is that 90% of the top comments are moderated as "funny"...
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I bet someone started playing an Einstuerzende Neubauten album.
.. we'll be showing you how to your own Autobot Matrix of Leadership out of two egg cartons, some sticky tape and your Mum's QVC cubic zirconium necklace.
yes, it was that Einsturzende Neubauten mp3 I sent to them.
That damned punk band in the neighbor's basement must be driving them nuts! I warned them, but did they listen? NO! "But it has a vaulted ceiling and nice wallpaper," she said. "It's close to my job," he said. It makes me sick.
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Stanislaw Lem has a story about this in Pirx the Pilot. I'm going to assume then that the banging sound is a robot.
Either a minoch is chewing on the wires...
...or Jim Nabors and Bob Denver are banging on the door to be let in.
...in space, no one can hear you poop.
Chalupa
it's a space station that goes ping!
To-do List: Receive telemarketing call during a tornado warning. Check.
"Yep, name's Harry Tuttle. No, not Buttle, Tuttle. Just don't tell Houston I'm here. Tell them it fixed itself."
[Next Orbit, radio from Houston]
"It fixed itself, you say? Space Stations don't fix themselves."
[giggling sidekick] "No, they don't fix themselves."
"We'll just have to dump your atmosphere and see if that fixes it."
I've read through all of the parent comments at -1 and I don't think I found a single serious comment.
Given that most of the comments in this story are variations of the same joke, why are most not modded redundant? Are people just scrolling down to random comments and discovering latter repeated jokes for the first time?
I wonder if this is some sort of illusion from being in space all this time. Maybe it's some sort of subconscious "go home" message?
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"I saw that one coming"
Is it just me or did everyone else misread that as "Metallica noise" and think: dang, those guys have good CDs up there...
I have a BS in BS.
The RIAA is now going to sue the ISS on behalf of Metallica. They can't be playing illegal Metallica mp3s in space!
Servo: Everything all right on the old satelite of love today mmm? Any emergencies?
Mike: No, Servo, everything appears nominal.
Servo: Good, good... I guess you're not wondering what the rhythmic pounding might me?
Mike: Yeah, what is that?
Be careful, Lars is trying to get in!
Its probably just the wind.
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there's no need to worry, it sounds like this, "w-w-e-e a-a-r-r-e-e v-v-r-i-e-n-n-d-d-s!"
joke alert: you had to have read the short story...
Simply a routine part of their studies...
(original credit, of course, goes to The Onion, but they're not hosting it on their site anymore)
u sure that someone on the ISS didn't have a burrito and let one loose in the cargo bay?
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Those crazy Russians with their MP3s, ahh
Minor correction. There's two astronauts aboard -The commander, Michael Foale, is most definitely not Russian.
*bonk* *dink* *dink* *bonk* *dink* *dink* *bonk*
Morse for: "Help! we are the last crew of skylab, we have been stuck up here since the 70's - we got detached from the main module, which they DID remember to bring down, please send oxygene URGENTLY. And we do not mean that J.M.Jarre crap."
Apparently the cosmonauts were downloading some Metallica tunes and the RIAA came knocking at the door with a summons.
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Little do the people of the ISS know- the cybermen are attacking them! They obviously plan to go there first and then attack Antarctica- will the Pancake Ninjas be able to save us?
I get the feeling there's some alien looking out his rear view monitor wondering if that piece of trash veicle he hit is following him.
RFC 2550
Wouldn't it make more sense to introduce a date format where there was a separator between the fields? Then the length of the fields can grow as needed.
Yes, I do understand that this RFC was an April 1st joke, but still...
When gremlins are involved.
My friend at IBM has replied on an issue I had with my PC's randomly rebooting itself (it's hardware, not software). He had another IBM tech explain that the computer would reboot for no reason. Everyone poured over the machine, finding absolutely nothing wrong, and the system would be stable only when someone else used it, but when this individual touched it, it would reboot.
I've had this happen with my mom's computer as well. Ever since I gave it to her (a handmedown, once I bought a replacement), it's been 100% more stable. My newish computer, on the other hand, spontaneously reboots for no apparent reason.
Go figure.
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The current crew of the ISS is an American astronaut Michael Foale & Russian Cosmonaut Alexander Kaleri. Further complicating matters is the fact that Foale is British...
It must be Blue Man Group.
I suppose its about time they headed back home.
(Space Ghost c2c)
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With a few exceptions, secrecy is deeply incompatible with democracy and with science. --Carl Sagan
This bitch was banging on my door all night last night. This morning I finally decided to let her out.
Could a comment that says "This isn't funny" be labelled as Funny with a score of 5. Pete, who thought it was hilarious.
That is all.
(For those of you who have watched "Armageddon")
This is probably just the sound of one of the Cosmonauts fixing a light switch. "This... [bang!] is... [bang!] how... [bang!] we... [bang!] fix... [bang!] this... [bang!] on... [bang!] Russian... [bang!] Space... [bang!] Station!!!"
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
GeneralEmergency
"A Martian Odyssey", by Stanley G. Weinbaum, c. 1934! Great story!
That mean that they are trying to join threir trying to join the 3 dolphin club?
Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. Will Rogers
It is a communication from another dimension. We need to drum back and do whatever we can think up to let them know we are hearing something. We should probably record it and store it permanently somewhere for millions of years... creating a feedback loop with the future.
"God" is a time-travelling historian, back to help us avoid mistakes because he realizes that helping us helps him... we are all connected. He is getting better and better at communicating with us (past attempts have been helpful but left us somewhat confused). This is where it starts getting good!
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reference this earlier article
Scientists Study Effects of Mir
KOROLYOV, RUSSIA--U.S. and Russian scientists are increasingly excited about the Mir space station project, which promises to reveal more than has ever been known about the scientific relationship between weightlessness and mortal terror.
"By stranding our scientists on a dilapidated space station with faulty wiring, loose hardware, and malfunctioning air systems," NASA head Daniel Goldin said, "we have created extremely favorable conditions for learning about spaceborne panic."
The two Russians and one American on board the station are reportedly terrified beyond lucidity.
Among the groundbreaking experiments conducted on board Mir: a June 25 collision with a cargo craft that depressurized the Spektr module; last week's emergency power shortage, caused by a disconnected cable; and the periodic release of "dry ice" steam that simulates a shipboard fire. All have been deemed a huge success by agency heads.
"They are in a constant state of what aerospace scientists term 'mind-shattering terror,' frightened for their very lives," Russian mission director Vladimir Solovyov said. "And we have not even used the hull-mounted Alien puppet that taps on the window yet."
"We have also taken huge leaps in our understanding of the patterns created when one wets his pants in the weightlessness of space," Solovyov said. "The urine spreads out in an expanding sphere, something we did not expect."
Taking a break from his busy schedule, astronaut Michael Foale told ABC News reporters: "Where's my mommy?"
"Please tell me the access code to the Soyuz capsule," Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Lazutkin said. "I would like to return to the chaotic government and widespread hunger of my homeland."
Scientists expect to gain even more useful data during an experiment at 3 a.m. tomorrow. As the astronauts sleep, whirling red siren lights will flood the cabin while an ear-splitting klaxon alarm jolts them awake.
Detailed scientific data will then be collected on such variables as open weeping, uncontrollable spontaneous defecation and unusual hair loss.
for things that move and shouldn't, you use duct tape...