Maybe it became officially official or something.
And that craft had less computing power than a Speak ‘n Spell.
“There’s a strange noise coming through the speaker…
I don’t know what’s making it.”
Wilmore, apparently floating in Starliner, then put his microphone up to the speaker inside Starliner.
Shortly thereafter, there was an audible pinging that was quite distinctive.
“Alright Butch, that one came through,” Mission control radioed up to Wilmore.
“It was kind of like a pulsing noise, almost like a sonar ping.”
The odd, sonar-like audio then repeated itself.
“Alright, over to you.
Call us if you figure it out.”
It was not immediately clear what was causing the odd and somewhat eerie noise.
Once docked, however, there is a hardline umbilical that carries audio.
Hey, no big deal.
This is the first act of pretty much all of them.
Half your episodes ofStar Trekbegin with theEnterprisepicking a signal, and everything going haywire once they investigated it.
(It’s bad.
Skip it and go straight toWrath of Khan.)
InAlien, theNostromopicks up a distress signal and is contractually obligated to go on a rescue mission.
And meteorologist Rob Dale might as well be Jeff Goldblum’s character.
In fact, Goldblum could play him in the movie version of this story.
If humanity survives whatever made that noise the crippled Starliner picked up.
Especially if we’re relying on Boeing tech to defend ourselves.
Now they’re stuck there until after the Super Bowl.
And are picking up weirdo transmissions that the best engineers a government contract can buy are unable to explain.
So their ordeal continues.
This is no laughing matter, obviously.
Even though the apes could’ve built a better space capsule than Boeing did.
