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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.
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
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!
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It's just those punks from X-prize knocking and running off... whippersnappers!
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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.
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some astronaught left her/his sneakers in the dryer?
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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> I still believe they're hidden in George W. Bush's anus.
No, he would have seen them by now.
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"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?
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!
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.
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.
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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
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.
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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.
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I understand your misgivings, since they are based on misapprehensions, but I will try to answer your points.
"...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."..."
Actually, there was a guy who said, "I am different from you because you feel that which I have convinced myself is fake. Maybe it's time I straightened you out and let you know that all of your feelings are hypocrisy and mine are the only genuine ones." Read the post. The collective consciousness wasn't weighed in, just me. The partial answer was, "How can you raise the concern to respond with an 'I don't care.' when by your own logic caring for something that isn't burning in your lap is false and ridiculous?"
As far as your father's death not wracking you with sobs of grief, I can understand that. You made your peace with what was a considerable loss. There's no void of emotion there, just a resolve to move on with productive life. That path wanders widely from someone who manages to be passionately apathetic. Did you skip your Father's funeral because it was Two for Tuesday at Subway and you wanted a sandwich? No, you knew your responsibilities, even though your day-to-day operations had to be rearranged. You set self aside and participated in a practiced manor to that which you had no visceral response. You tried to feel, instead of relishing in your unfeeling. Do not lump yourself (or anyone else) in with someone who determines that anything shy of blood-on-blood emotion is 'fakery'.
My self-admitted 'muted' sympathies for the 'nauts in question did not exclude the anonymous poster, but they took the form of reacting more strongly to the one I was now in relational contact with. If I felt that he was below esteem, I would have never responded to him (come to think of it, he might be a she). You have responded as well, providing a logical shield not just for someone whom you do not know, but who also would exclude you actively from their sphere of concern.
You, my friend, are VERY Cindy Lou Who, and I applaud you for it.
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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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It must be Blue Man Group.
I suppose its about time they headed back home.