There has been a real life Lost in Space scenario beginning in June and involving a pair of astronauts,
Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Sunita Williams. They were the test crew
for an experimental eight day mission aboard the Boeing Starliner spacecraft;
the first ever manned launch of this vehicle. The craft suffered a major
breakdown once it reached orbit, but luckily it remained functional enough to reach
the International Space Station so the astronauts survived. The problem though
is that they now have no means of returning to earth until somebody sends up a
rocket to fetch them. Elon Musk has promised to do so as soon as possible; much
to Boeing's chagrin, no doubt. The two astronauts have been making the most of
their emergency stop, putting themselves to good use, helping the resident
crew. Both are experienced astronauts who have been into space before. However,
something has now happened that could be the first serious obstacle of their
exile. They were working in their stricken Starliner capsule when they heard a
strange noise. Butch contacted mission control and said: "There's a
strange noise coming through the speaker." He then had to find a way to
let the controller hear it. The sound is a regular echoing pulse that rises and
falls each time, described by the controller as "like a sonar ping."
For some reason the ground controller asks him if he hears any other strange
noises coming from other places. NASA claims the noise comes from inside the
ISS and it is "common". If it's so common why did Butch and Sunita
not know what it is? Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5vd3S7DNGY.
There is no sound in space because sound is caused by a vibrating medium, like
air. Space is a vacuum. Any sound that comes from space must come from inside
the spacecraft, or the ISS to which it is currently docked. Alternatively it
can be modulated from an electromagnetic signal coming from outside the craft,
or in some situations this can happen by accident through interference or
jamming. As a result astronauts do occasionally hear strange noises in space;
and sometimes the source of those noises cannot be located. This very famously
happened to the crew of Apollo 10 while they were in radio silence as they
passed behind the dark side of the moon. (In my view they were probably in low
earth orbit, see: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2020/12/moon-landing-portal.html.)
It was described as "space music"; it was actually a "whistling"
sound.) What's the cause of these mysterious sounds? Well, like many mysterious
sounds on the earth, nobody knows. It could be some undetected malfunction with
the craft's electrical systems. It could be the interaction between cosmic rays
and the solar wind. There are as many theories as there are theorists. I don't
rule out an attempt at contact by some kind of intelligence.
2 comments:
So fake you dont believe in the space station you could not im sure its only for dummies
I didn't want to, but BEATRICE said it was real!
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