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."

Could it be....

[mrpuffypants]

some type of alien space drummer trying, in vain, to be noticed doing the solo from inagaddadavida?

The source of the problem?

[gid13]

Neil Peart was found to have stowed away on board.

Do you suppose...

[g00bd0g]

Whatever it is wants in?

Re:Could it be....

[OneBarG]

In space, no one can hear you scream...but, apparently, they can hear you drum.

I know!

[Lane.exe]

10 bucks says when they open the door, it's a pair of spacewalking Jehovah's Witnesses.

Loud Metallica Noise?

[Anonymous Coward]

Ah! So that's where they've been hiding?

A Passenger Perhaps?

[QuantumFTL]

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

I can see it now....

[Neko-kun]

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

Is that you HAL?

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Obvious...

[jawtheshark]

It's a poltergeist: the ISS was built on an Indian cemetary.

Watch out! It's a Space Monster!

[CrystalChronicles]

I saw it last night on the screen!

session 11 [aaanime.net]

Nightmare at 20,000 feet

[CODiNE]

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...

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... ... He jumps away whenever anyone might see him. Except me. Honey, he's there. I realize what this sounds like. Do I look insane?

Damn you, Ike!

[mcrbids]

I *told* you not to put the helmets in the dryer!

Well

[ev1lcanuck]

It's something that makes noise every once in awhile, could be very costly to fix, and is damn annoying.

I didn't know Darl McBride owned a space shuttle...

Re:Watch out! It's a Space Monster!

[U.I.D 754625]

There's some THING on the wing!

Poor guy

[Repugnant_Shit]

*BANG* Let me back in you assholes! This isn't funny!

Re:Cosmonauts?

[Perdition]

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.

Re:Cosmonauts?

[ozbird]

Taikonaut = Chinese

Are you sure there isn't a Japanese Taikonaut [taiko.com] on the ISS? That would explain the drumming noise.

Relax...

[Perdition]

It's just those punks from X-prize knocking and running off... whippersnappers!

or

[beforewisdom]

some astronaught left her/his sneakers in the dryer?

Re:Seriously though...

[Perdition]

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.

Why Not....

[UniverseIsADoughnut]

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?

That timing sounds all wrong

[cgenman]

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.

I hear it

[roalt]

... I also just heard the same sound!

It's the newspaper...

a loud metallica noise?

[Paladin144]

What man? Oh yeah, sorry, I'll turn that shit down. It's no problem, we were just rockin' on a new jam, and we may have gotten a little carried away. What? Oh yeah, I dunno how the fireworks and golf clubs got involved. Maybe we shouldn't've lit the mattresses on fire for effect. I'm sorry; it won't happen again...

...tonight.

Paladin144
Always Rockin'
Trees Eat People [timoregan.com]

Re:Why Not....

[Perdition]

Because unless they can repeatedly demonstrate the noise, Maintenance Personnel would simply spray some WD-40 on it and go into hiding for three weeks!

Re:Relax...

[cybermace5]

If the ISS crew goes out to take a look and finds a burning paper bag on the welcome mat, they better not stomp on it to put out the fire!

Re:I know!

[ross.w]

Numbers 127,439/144,000 and 132,976/144,000 respectively

Re: Is that you HAL?

[Black Parrot]

> No Dave, I haven't taken up the drums. I think you should go check on that noise, Dave.

Dave: [bangs to get back in] It's me, Dave!

HAL: Dave? Dave's not here.

Re:Cosmonauts?

[boneshintai]

I could go on, but you'd probably form a lynch mob.

Judge Naut, lest ye be Judged?

Re: WMD's ?

[Black Parrot]

> I still believe they're hidden in George W. Bush's anus.

No, he would have seen them by now.

Could it be...

[Aaron_Pike]

*bam* *bam* *bam*

"Two dollars!!!"

Translation, please?

[Aaron_Pike]

Russian Cosmonauts at the International Space Station today heard a loud drumlike noise...

What's Russian for "fool of a Took!"?

Metallic(a), drumlike noise?

[gspr]

Lars Ulrich! Get your ass down here and start working on the next album, goddamnit!

Time to send up some subwoofers

[Powercntrl]

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.

Excellent

[borius]

The real Metallica is back after having been missing since 1991! Excellent!

Re:How can they hear sounds in VACCUM?

[Anonymous Coward]

With all the suspect noises it may not be long before they DO live in a vaccume!

Re: WMD's ?

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, at least Blair would have.

It's Homer

[rixstep]

It's Homer Simpson. I'm sure of it.

Besides, there are no sounds in space. They're always vacuuming up there.

Re:Seriously though...

[feidaykin]

I for one hope they pull through.

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 [wikipedia.org] 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.

Re:Cosmonauts?

[hangingonwords]

don't forget the huguenots!

Re:Watch out! It's a Space Monster!

[rob_au]

[He pulls a curtain across. Smith looks out the window and sees a gremlin tearing up the plane's wing.]

Smith [on TV]: There's a gremlin destroying the plane! You've gotta believe me!

Man [on TV]: Why should I believe you? You're Hitler!

[He holds up a mirror. Smith's reflection is indeed that of Hitler.]

(From Futurama 3.15 I Dated A Robot - http://www.geocities.com/theneutralplanet/transcri pts/season3/3ACV15.html)

Space suit became damp...

[terrencefw]

But Kaleri's spacesuit overheated and became damp, and the spacewalk had to be cut short

I think if I were investgating an unknown noise, and then my spacesuite malfunctioned, bits of it becoming damp would be a certainty!

Fool Of A Took!

[Ilan Volow]

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.

Re:Why Not....

[skinfitz]

You are assuming that they sprung for on-site maintenance.

Re:Could it be....

[andy666]

....the sound of inevitibility, Mr. Anderson ?

Or, as Butthead would put it...

[Anonymous Coward]

heh heh, yeah, heh heh heh DOYOYOYOYOYOYNGGGGGG heh heh cool heh heh

Wrong satellite dude...

[adamofgreyskull]

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

You guys should watch more Babylon 5

[ReciprocityProject]

We've dealt with this [midwinter.com] 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.

Re:From the write-up...

[Animedude]

>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.

Maybe a....Spaceshark????

[Anonymous Coward]

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."

Obligatory family guy quote

[Raul654]

Black Woman at the door: You folks want some pancakes?

Peter: No, thank you! See, the worst we've got is Jemima's Witnesses

Re:Translation, please?

[ozbird]

What's Russian for "fool of a Took!"?

"Tooks fool you!" ?

Re:Maybe a....Spaceshark????

[Anonymous Coward]

With a friggin' laser beam attached to its head?

Re:Could it be....

[sittingbull]

Well we're all in trouble when the drum solo stops; the bass solo begins!

Or....

[useosx]

Simply a routine part of their studies... [umich.edu]

(original credit, of course, goes to The Onion, but they're not hosting it on their site anymore)

u sure that..

[MoFoQ]

u sure that someone on the ISS didn't have a burrito and let one loose in the cargo bay?

I think I know who's banging in space

[Tandoori Haggis]

Paris Hilton !

Re:Could it be....

[pigpogm]

some type of alien space drummer

Is there any other type of drummer?

Re:Could it be....

[iminplaya]

With one beat every four months, it's going to be one looooonnnngg solo

Drumming outside?

[PDX]

It must be Blue Man Group.
I suppose its about time they headed back home.

Re:Seriously though...

[Anonymous Coward]

-1 False Airs (intentionally pretentious use of both obfuscate and prose while misspelling elicit)

Re:Cosmonauts?

[r_j_prahad]

You left out the multiple choice detractor.

Slashnauts = CowboyNeal

Re:Cosmonauts?

[Anonymous Coward]

"I could go on, but you'd probably form a lynch mob."

What do you take us for, a bunch of humornauts?