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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?
10 bucks says when they open the door, it's a pair of spacewalking Jehovah's Witnesses.
IAALS.
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
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)
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...
Cwm, fjord-bank glyphs vext quiz
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
then there's:
Whatnauts = porcelain figurines
Havenhavenauts = rich and poor simultaneously
Doublenauts = James Bond and Co.
Squarenauts = tough lil' fellers to tie
Doenauts = cop fodder
Micronauts = "Long live Lord Karza!"
Forgetmenauts = Everyone except Neil Armstrong
Thoushaltnauts = God's Top Ten
I could go on, but you'd probably form a lynch mob.
Windows XP SP2 told me to install third-party software that prevents viruses and protects stability... I chose Ubuntu
Taikonaut = Chinese
Are you sure there isn't a Japanese Taikonaut on the ISS? That would explain the drumming noise.
It's just those punks from X-prize knocking and running off... whippersnappers!
Windows XP SP2 told me to install third-party software that prevents viruses and protects stability... I chose Ubuntu
some astronaught left her/his sneakers in the dryer?
You're right, a joist in my house settles and I wake up at 3 a.m. unable to get back to sleep. Just think how I'd fare with a gimpy airlock... I am such a sissy.
Windows XP SP2 told me to install third-party software that prevents viruses and protects stability... I chose Ubuntu
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.
The ______ Agenda
It's the newspaper...
...tonight.
Paladin144
Always Rockin'
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Judge Naut, lest ye be Judged?
> I still believe they're hidden in George W. Bush's anus.
No, he would have seen them by now.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
"Two dollars!!!"
What's Russian for "fool of a Took!"?
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!
With all the suspect noises it may not be long before they DO live in a vaccume!
Yeah, at least Blair would have.
It's Homer Simpson. I'm sure of it.
Besides, there are no sounds in space. They're always vacuuming up there.
No, no no. You can't start a line with "I for one" on slashdot without making it a reference to the infamous Kent Brockman newscast.
Here, I'll give you some examples:
I, for one, welcome our new knocking alien overlords.
I, for one, welcome our new colliding space debris overlords.
I, for one, welcome our repetitive slashdot joke overlords.
See how it works now? I hope that next time you start a sentence with "I for one" you will not make the same mistake.
"To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit." -Stephen Hawking
don't forget the huguenots!
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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!
heh heh, yeah, heh heh heh DOYOYOYOYOYOYNGGGGGG heh heh cool heh heh
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
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.
>There's only one cosmonaut on the ISS, Alexander Kaleri.
Yup, sure - Igor is on the outside, trying to get back in after stepping outside for a quick smoke.
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."
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
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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My hyperlinks aren't worth the paper they're printed on.
It must be Blue Man Group.
I suppose its about time they headed back home.
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You left out the multiple choice detractor.
Slashnauts = CowboyNeal
"I could go on, but you'd probably form a lynch mob."
What do you take us for, a bunch of humornauts?