dantheclamman@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoBoeing’s Starliner started making a repeating ‘pulsing’ sound yesterdaywww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square49fedilinkarrow-up113arrow-down11
arrow-up112arrow-down1external-linkBoeing’s Starliner started making a repeating ‘pulsing’ sound yesterdaywww.theverge.comdantheclamman@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square49fedilink
minus-squareFuglyDuck@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoTo be fair, if you leave an airlock door open…. It’s quite a bit worse than a fridge.
minus-squarepartial_accumen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoI know we’re joking here, but if you leave an airlock open exposed to hard vacuum you’re not going to hear any kind of audio alerts because there’s no air to transmit the sound.
minus-squareFuglyDuck@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agosound will also transmit through the physical structure, so you can feel the vibrations if your touching walls. But if you really want to get pedantic… you’ll probably notice the whole choking-on-vacuum-thing first.
minus-squarepartial_accumen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months ago But if you really want to get pedantic… you’ll probably notice the whole choking-on-vacuum-thing first. We agree completely!
To be fair, if you leave an airlock door open….
It’s quite a bit worse than a fridge.
I know we’re joking here, but if you leave an airlock open exposed to hard vacuum you’re not going to hear any kind of audio alerts because there’s no air to transmit the sound.
sound will also transmit through the physical structure, so you can feel the vibrations if your touching walls.
But if you really want to get pedantic… you’ll probably notice the whole choking-on-vacuum-thing first.
We agree completely!