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."
Could it be.... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Could it be.... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:WMD's ? (Score:2)
I wouldn't want all our base to belong to them!
Re: WMD's ? (Score:5, Funny)
> I still believe they're hidden in George W. Bush's anus.
No, he would have seen them by now.
Re: WMD's ? (Score:5, Funny)
Watch out! It's a Space Monster! (Score:3, Funny)
session 11 [aaanime.net]
Re:Watch out! It's a Space Monster! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Watch out! It's a Space Monster! (Score:4, Funny)
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/transcr
Re:Watch out! It's a Space Monster! (Score:2)
Re:Could it be.... (Score:2, Funny)
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Or.... (Score:3, Funny)
(original credit, of course, goes to The Onion, but they're not hosting it on their site anymore)
Re:Could it be.... (Score:3, Funny)
Is there any other type of drummer?
Re:Could it be.... (Score:3, Funny)
The source of the problem? (Score:3, Funny)
Do you suppose... (Score:5, Funny)
Cosmonauts? (Score:2, Offtopic)
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
Re:Cosmonauts? (Score:5, Funny)
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? (Score:2, Funny)
Judge Naut, lest ye be Judged?
Re:Cosmonauts? (Score:3, Funny)
Slashnauts = CowboyNeal
Re:Cosmonauts? (Score:5, Funny)
Are you sure there isn't a Japanese Taikonaut [taiko.com] on the ISS? That would explain the drumming noise.
Re:Cosmonauts? (Score:2)
Re:Cosmonauts? (Score:2)
I know! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I know! (Score:4, Funny)
Obligatory family guy quote (Score:4, Funny)
Peter: No, thank you! See, the worst we've got is Jemima's Witnesses
Loud Metallica Noise? (Score:3, Funny)
Excellent (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Loud Metallica Noise? (Score:2)
A Passenger Perhaps? (Score:2, Funny)
Then again, one of the russians might have brought some duct tape...
Cheers,
Justin Wick
Is that you HAL? (Score:5, Funny)
Re: Is that you HAL? (Score:5, Funny)
> 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.
Obvious... (Score:5, Funny)
From the write-up... (Score:2, Interesting)
There's only one cosmonaut on the ISS, Alexander Kaleri. The other current occupant, Michael Foale, is an astronaut.
Re:From the write-up... (Score:2, Funny)
Yup, sure - Igor is on the outside, trying to get back in after stepping outside for a quick smoke.
Nightmare at 20,000 feet (Score:5, Funny)
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...
You...left out... (Score:2)
Damn you, Ike! (Score:5, Funny)
Well (Score:5, Funny)
I didn't know Darl McBride owned a space shuttle...
Poor guy (Score:5, Funny)
After all of this time (Score:2)
Relax... (Score:4, Funny)
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Seriously though... (Score:5, Insightful)
Those guys up there have families and what-not that gotta be pretty on-edge right now. I for one hope they pull through.
Re:Seriously though... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Seriously though... (Score:5, Funny)
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:Seriously though... (Score:2)
Re:Seriously though... (Score:2)
You're right, it must be really scary: you're flying with your star ship light years away from home, and suddenly, you bumb onto a space station floating around a planet filled with billion of aliens, in war with a species called "The Terrorism".
Re:Seriously though... (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Seriously though... (Score:2)
Right about then, is not a good time for those guys to be thinking about this stuff going to lowest bidder.
Re:Seriously though... (Score:3, Insightful)
Okay, i'll make this brief, since it's wasted on an AC. The very fact that you can use a telecommunications device designed and built thousands of miles from a home you probably didn't construct with electricity you didn't generate to participate in a discussion you were previously ineligible to enter patently and completely negates your "why should anyone give a rip about anyone else" whining. Altruism (sprinkled with
Re:Seriously though... (Score:2, Interesting)
Why does this disturb you so? Would it be better if I flat out lied and pretended to feel strongly?
Re:Seriously though... (Score:4, Insightful)
Where did you manage to dredge up all this disgust for people you "do not know" having feelings that you cannot seem to have? It seems from your statements that the only strong feeling you can manage to have is contempt for people with differing feelings, however strong they may be, since feelings that others have are obviously "fake". Let's face it, you're wallowing in your "superior" detachment because it facilitates your ability to tend only to yourself and your ever-fading list of people you care about. It's not that we don't understand your point, but you'll just have to forgive us if we never put you in charge of anything that matters to anyone besides yourself.
Re:Seriously though... (Score:2, Insightful)
Please tell me you take a day off work to cry a river every time a death is reported in the news. Please tell me every time you see an ambulance speed past while driving to work, your heart sinks in your chest and you have to compose yourself on the side of the road, as tears stream down your face onto the pavement below.
Yeah, right.
Everybody li
Re:Seriously though... (Score:2, Insightful)
Also, if you read my posts, you will see that I admitted up front that my emotions were dimmed by distance and the lack of a tragic certainty. Not absent, just dimmed. My e
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Re:Are you so different from he? (Score:2, Insightful)
"...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 becau
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or (Score:3, Funny)
Why Not.... (Score:5, Funny)
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That timing sounds all wrong (Score:4, Funny)
I know they were looking for experience, but they shouldn't have hired management team from the Mir.
Re:That timing sounds all wrong (Score:4, Insightful)
I hear it (Score:3, Funny)
It's the newspaper...
a loud metallica noise? (Score:5, Funny)
...tonight.
Paladin144
Always Rockin'
Trees Eat People [timoregan.com]
Could it be... (Score:5, Funny)
"Two dollars!!!"
Translation, please? (Score:5, Funny)
What's Russian for "fool of a Took!"?
Re:Translation, please? (Score:2)
Re:Translation, please? (Score:5, Funny)
"Tooks fool you!" ?
Metallic(a), drumlike noise? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Metallic(a), drumlike noise? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Metallic(a), drumlike noise? (Score:3, Insightful)
Shh, don't give him any ideas! Haven't you heard St. Anger?
Re:Metallic(a), drumlike noise? (Score:2)
"It's the one-armed man!"
"Shut up Kimble! There is no one-armed man!"
Time to send up some subwoofers (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:Time to send up some subwoofers (Score:2)
Don't forget your Type-R sticker.
It's Homer (Score:3, Funny)
Besides, there are no sounds in space. They're always vacuuming up there.
Space suit became damp... (Score:5, Funny)
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! (Score:3, Funny)
What a waste of a perfectly good space station.
Anyone seen my stereo? (Score:2)
Thermal effects? (Score:2, Insightful)
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 orb
You guys should watch more Babylon 5 (Score:2, Funny)
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.
Maybe a....Spaceshark???? (Score:5, Funny)
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."
If it sounds like this: (Score:2)
It is an elephant wearing a crash helmet riding a motorcycle while a seal bangs a kipper on a table.
Imagine my surprise when I knocked on that door....Did anyone else read it as... (Score:2)
Record Breaking (Score:2)
Tech support from hell (Score:2)
FOALE: "Uh, Houston? We've got something, uh, drumming on our outer hull. Sounds kind of like a sheet of metal bending on itself or something."
HOUSTON: "Okay, let's take a look...well...nope, everything's working fine."
FOALE: "Really, it's kind of loud. And this is the second time -- last time we didn't get to try and find out what was going on."
HOUSTON: (thinks "Darn astronauts, i
Re: Loud Metallic Noise Heard at ISS (Score:2)
And they *don't know*? (Score:2)
Cut short. So. You're sitting up there, in a really rather hostile environment, running out of cash, spending most of your time keeping this thing alive (and, by extension, yourself), listen to the americans whine about risking their shuttle, and... you HAVEN'T GONE AND LOOKED?
What, you need a form in triplicate? You don't think that this might be dangerous to ignore? Yes, a walk outside isn't very saf
Unicron calling! And this week on Blue Peter.. (Score:2)
It was Industrial Music (Score:2)
Not a drum sound (Score:2)
Where's DeNiro when you need him? (Score:2)
"Yep, name's Harry Tuttle [imdb.com]. No, not Buttle, Tuttle. Just don't tell Houston I'm here. Tell them it fixed itself."
[Next Orbit, radio from Houston]
"It fixed itself, you say? Space Stations don't fix themselves."
[giggling sidekick] "No, they don't fix themselves."
"We'll just have to dump your atmosphere and see if that fixes it."
u sure that.. (Score:3, Funny)
I think I know who's banging in space (Score:2, Funny)
Re:How can they hear sounds in VACCUM? (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:How can they hear sounds in VACCUM? (Score:5, Informative)
Wrong satellite dude... (Score:5, Funny)
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