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."

From the write-up...

[Anonymous Coward]

Russian Cosmonauts...

There's only one cosmonaut on the ISS, Alexander Kaleri. The other current occupant, Michael Foale, is an astronaut.

Re:Seriously though...

[Anonymous Coward]

and did we learn nothing from Colimbia? "engineers suspected space junk may have damaged something on the exterior" isn't really good enough - there's potentially lives at stake - It might be nothing, I hope it is! but if it needs another space walk, DO IT!

Re:Seriously though...

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, I can only say that I've never felt anything for people I don't know personally. I don't hate them, I don't love them, I don't care about them - I just don't feel anything. I love my family and felt horrible when a close friend of mine died.

Why does this disturb you so? Would it be better if I flat out lied and pretended to feel strongly?

Re:How can they hear sounds in VACCUM?

[XChilde]

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?

Re:Seriously though...

[Anonymous Coward]

Would it kill you to try?

I don't get it. Are you really saying that I should force myself to feel something that I don't naturally feel? Why the hell would I want to work on evoking an emotional reaction that doesn't come naturally to me?

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.

Where is the emotional response in your baby example?

I'd pick up the baby because I could and it'd make sense to do it. Being horrified about the corpse being pulled out of a car would not make sense at all. I didn't know him, I couldn't have done anything to save him and getting all torn apart over it afterwards wouldn't change anything.

Somehow, you felt that this was a reaction with some exchangeable parity with sincere, if somewhat muffled, sympathy.

Fake sympathy would be the correct term.

It all comes back to the fact that I find it a disgusting habit to display signs of emotions one does not actually feel.

Re:Seriously though...

[Gordonjcp]

It's probably just a panel oilcanning with changes in temperature. Eventually (perhaps a few dozen years from now) the flexing might be enough to start a crack.