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."

Comments

Cosmonauts?

[modifried]

The difference between a cosmonaut and an astronaut being what, exactly?

Re:Seriously though...

[ErichTheWebGuy]

grrrrrrrr I used up all my mod points... rest assured you would me modded down if I could.

Re:Seriously though...

[Perdition]

"Would it be better if I flat out lied and pretended to feel strongly?"

Would it kill you to try? What you're saying in essence is that if you saw a baby on a railroad track with the 5:30 from Pittsburg bearing down on it, and that baby wasn't a close friend or relative, you'd have a tough time working up the requisite concern to scoop said child off the track. They have a word for that in psychological circles: sociopath. Granted, requesting that you burst out in tears for a couple of complete strangers in a space station hundreds of miles above your head in non-iminent danger is a bit of a stretch, but nobody asked you to do that. Actually, no one asked you anything, but you felt it neccesary to enlighten us that you feel nothing for anyone that you "don't personally know". Somehow, you felt that this was a reaction with some exchangeable parity with sincere, if somewhat muffled, sympathy. Call us back, Mr. Grinch, when your heart isn't two sizes too small.

Clarification of the moderation system

[LordOfYourPants]

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?

Re:Clarification of the moderation system

[craXORjack]

Because to moderate 'redundant' fairly you would have to look at all comments in the forum to find the repeats and then examine the time that they were posted which doesn't necessarily correlate with which thread they are in.

How can you expect comment posters to have done this already to make sure they aren't being redundant? Only a schizoid could follow a conversation if he is viewing in flat mode, oldest first. In fact maybe that is the cause of some redundant comments.

I only mod redundant when the redundant comment is made in the same thread and when so much time has passed since the original that I know the redundant poster didn't just take longer to compose his reply than the other guy.