The Starliner spacecraft has started making strange noises

[PhotonWrangler]

Strange noises have started emanating from a speaker in the Boeing Starliner capsule. Listen for yourself and see what you think.

To me it sounds like an audio amplifier whose power supply has gone out of regulation, possibly due to a fading battery. I've encountered a similar phenomenon where a battery powered amplifier or radio will "motorboat" when the amount of current needed to produce a loud sound exceeds what it's power supply can provide. It tries to reproduce a loud sound, causing the battery voltage to sag, causing the amplifier to quiet down, allowing the battery to recover a bit, then it tries again and the cycle keeps repeating.

Or maybe it's something entirely different.

 

[thermal guy]

You beat me to it!😂😂

 

[ABTOMAT]

I've seen Event Horizon, I know where this goes.

 

[PhotonWrangler]

You beat me to it!😂😂

Lol. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to steal your thunder.

 

[Hooked on Fenix]

That's the sound of hungry aliens banging on the outside of the hull with pieces of metal pipe.

 

[Monocrom]

That's the sound of "Don't get on-board!"

 

[PhotonWrangler]

 

[thermal guy]

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There's something……on the wing of the plane!!

 

[thermal guy]

Lol. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to steal your thunder.

Well you left out a few details but all in all pretty good 😊

 

[Monocrom]

We got a darn Stowaway!

 

[PhotonWrangler]

It does kinda sound like that scene from Contact. Just sayin'

 

[raggie33]

me and sister saw a ufo right out side are window as kids still have no idea what it was .but it wasnt a plane or a copter. i dont know if they had projecters that could project images on a window back them from 200 yards away this was the very early 80s and we lived in the hood closes builiding behind us was for the old folks

 

[knucklegary]

It does kinda sound like that scene from Contact. Just sayin'

The aliens are watching and learning. Raggie could be one of THEM ! 👽

 

[Monocrom]

The aliens are watching and learning. Raggie could be one of THEM ! 👽

Now that's just crazy-talk.
Clearly the bright lights coming from his house late at night is simply due to a flashaholic doing some White Wall hunting.

 

[Chauncey Gardener]

 

[aznsx]

Apparently this has been determined to be a (relatively) ordinary audio interface issue, as I suspected. Likely not a gloom and doom Hollyweird scenario, nor likely mission critical.

 

[PhotonWrangler]

Apparently this has been determined to be a (relatively) ordinary audio interface issue, as I suspected. Likely not a gloom and doom Hollyweird scenario, nor likely mission critical.

Yep, the weird noise has stopped. NASA is saying that it was feedback from the speaker. It was fun to speculate though.

 

[Ray_of_Light]

My hypothesis is, the amplifier is receiving the signal emitted by those "Synthetic Aperture Radar", which are onboard so many observation satellites and their dogs. SARs are on satellites at different orbital altitudes. There is a relationship between the spacing of the pulses and the orbital altitude; higher the orbit, slower the RF pulses.
I believe a SAR satellite to be the origin of the sound - and I have the probabilities on my side...

 

[sween1911]

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THERE'S

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ON THE WING!

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ON THE WING!​