Boeing’s Starliner started making a repeating ‘pulsing’ sound yesterday

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/1/24233669/boeing-starliner-strange-noise-nasa-iss-sonar-ping

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19309019

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brown567@sh.itjust.works · 67 pts · 1y (2 replies)

It's just the whistleblower detector, don't worry about it

unreachable@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 1y

finickydesert@lemmy.ml · 15 pts · 1y

Employee at Boeing:

Erasmus@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 1y (1 reply)
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FinalRemix@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y

*pokes pencil through magazine*
"Wormholes, doctor?"
"No, illustrating how small debris just goes clean through the shoddily built starliner... in a way that prevents further investigation into its flaws, afterward."

Thorry84@feddit.nl · 14 pts · 1y (1 reply)

It's probably just a countdown piggybacking on our own satellite systems, at least according to some dude named Levinson I saw on the news. It's probably nothing.

FinalRemix@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y

Oh, my Gawd. I gotta call my brother, my housekeeper, my lawyer. Ah, forget my lawyer.

TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 1y (5 replies)

Watch this thing explode and take out the ISS.

Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works · 39 pts · 1y (2 replies)

I'd really rather not

TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Me too, but it is Boeing and they appear to be infested with incompetence....er gremlins...yeah that's the ticket! Gremlins!

Archer@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

Incompetence gremlins. Extremely difficult to remove because they start to affect exterminators immediately

Cenotaph@mander.xyz · 17 pts · 1y

Excuse me NASA, we deorbited the space station for you. Can we have the money you were going to give to the spaceX contract? Thank youu

teamevil@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
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