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Chinese astronaut puzzled by 'knocking sound' in space
http://www.bbc.com ^ | 11/30/2016 | unk

Posted on 11/30/2016 6:48:04 AM PST by Beowulf9


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TOPICS: Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: astronaut; space
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Imagine you're alone in a tiny spacecraft - it's your first time up there, all alone in endless space. Then suddenly - a knocking sound. That's what happened to Yang Liwei, China's first man in space, on his maiden flight in 2003. In a recent interview, he has now recalled hearing "someone knocking the body of the spaceship just as knocking an iron bucket with a wooden hammer".
1 posted on 11/30/2016 6:48:04 AM PST by Beowulf9
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To: Beowulf9

Needs a new set of plugs.


2 posted on 11/30/2016 6:48:55 AM PST by Genoa (Luke 12:2)
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To: Beowulf9

Jehovah’s Witnesses can be aggressive.


3 posted on 11/30/2016 6:49:42 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Beowulf9

Did he ask, “who’s there?”


4 posted on 11/30/2016 6:50:13 AM PST by MAGA2017
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To: Beowulf9

Did he order something from Amazon?


5 posted on 11/30/2016 6:50:22 AM PST by ExpatCanuck
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To: Beowulf9

REVELATION 3:20
“Look! I stand at the door and knock. If you hear my voice and open the door, I will come in, and we will share a meal together as friends.”

JESUS?


6 posted on 11/30/2016 6:50:37 AM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12)
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To: Army Air Corps

I hear you knocking,

But you can’t come in!


7 posted on 11/30/2016 6:51:12 AM PST by Gadsden1st
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To: Beowulf9

Space herpe!


8 posted on 11/30/2016 6:51:19 AM PST by mewzilla (I'll vote for the first guy who promises to mail in his SOTU addresses.)
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To: Beowulf9

Jimmy Johns !


9 posted on 11/30/2016 6:51:49 AM PST by Mopp4
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I’m guessing its thermal expansion and contraction of the vehicle he heard, there can be more than 200 degrees difference between the sunny side and shady side of the spacecraft in a vacuum.


10 posted on 11/30/2016 6:51:50 AM PST by apillar
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PIZZA DELIVERY!!! On the cold side though....


11 posted on 11/30/2016 6:51:52 AM PST by EagleUSA
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To: Beowulf9

What’s his octane rating?


12 posted on 11/30/2016 6:51:54 AM PST by Genoa (Luke 12:2)
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He was in the space junk orbit, he hit a pocket of junk.


13 posted on 11/30/2016 6:53:09 AM PST by Bringbackthedraft (???? It dissappeared.)
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To: Beowulf9

Fujiyama: 30 minutes or it’s free!


14 posted on 11/30/2016 6:53:25 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic, Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: Beowulf9

If I’ve learned one thing from watching horror movies, it’s NEVER OPEN THE DOOR.


15 posted on 11/30/2016 6:54:49 AM PST by 762X51
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Pot holes?


16 posted on 11/30/2016 6:55:23 AM PST by xrmusn ((6/98)" "If you see a civilian in cammies -- bump into him")
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To: Beowulf9

was it a typical 3 knock knock? or a shave and a haircut type knock?


17 posted on 11/30/2016 6:55:29 AM PST by rwoodward ("god, guns and more ammo")
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To: nobody in particular

Was the co-pilot seat empty?


18 posted on 11/30/2016 6:55:43 AM PST by SGCOS
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That would be a puzzling sound to hear, for sure.
It happened to Sandra Bullock and it turned out to be George Clooney.
In her nightmare it was just a leftwinger trying to invade her spaceship.

19 posted on 11/30/2016 6:56:06 AM PST by Blue Jays ( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
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Should have gone with the 100 octane.


20 posted on 11/30/2016 6:56:37 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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