Loud Metallic Noise Heard at ISS 281
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."
Re:Cosmonauts? (Score:5, Informative)
American space travelers - Astronauts.
That's the difference.
Re:Cosmonauts? (Score:5, Informative)
The only difference is the words' origin. But it means same thing.
Astronaut = American
Cosmonaut = Russian
Taikonaut = Chinese
*creak* (Score:1, Informative)
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Re:How can they hear sounds in VACCUM? (Score:1, Informative)
The iss is pressurized, thus, sound can propagate INSIDE the ISS
Re:How can they hear sounds in VACCUM? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:It's ... (Score:1, Informative)
However, not knowing that the Polish have a long tradition in shipbuilding or that their former prime minister, Lech Walesa, started as a strike leader on the shipyards...
There is ignorance and there is ignorance.