NASA Says It Accidentally Broadcast an ISS Distress Message
NASA Says It Accidentally Broadcast an ISS Distress Message
The space agency was running through simulations for a spacewalk, which was later postponed.
Misleading headline. NASA accidentally broadcast a simulated ISS distress message.
Two very different things.
Not to be pedantic but I think the headline is fine.
If you simulated a fire in a building for training purposes and upon activating the fire alarm, it got broadcast to emergency services when it shouldn't, you did accidentally broadcast the fire alarm, simulated or not.
The "accidentally" already implies it was done in error, suggesting it was not an emergency. On the other hand, if it was a real emergency, and just wasn't meant to be publicly broadcasted, I feel like the headline would've looked different.
I guess considering I used to work in Mission Control and participate in these simulations, the language used here is something I notice probably more than others.
The simulation itself was broadcast. The astronauts and the sim team were in Houston. The alarm originated from a computer on the ground in Houston. The comm loops that were heard were from a sim on the ground in Houston. This headline would make more sense if NASA was troubleshooting alarms on ISS and configured things such that those messages would be on a private channel but messed up and the public heard them. In this context the fact that it was a sim is important.
On my way!
But seriously, what could they realistically do?
I hear Elon Musk is looking for an excuse to leave the planet. Coincidently, I'M ALSO looking for an excuse for Elon Musk to leave this planet.
Where we have differing viewpoints is on if Musk should then be allowed to RETURN to this planet. I vote nay.
Nothing would come of it. Ppl would just tell him his rescue plan was stupid then he'd call them all pedophiles and do fuck all
Send nukes. That may hold off the aliens long enough for Jeff Goldblum and Slappy Smith to get in there.
Nudes might be more effective. Flood them with porn.
“Help is on the way, dear!”
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Yesterday, a NASA livestream falsely indicated that an ISS astronaut was experiencing decompression sickness (DCS), a potentially life-threatening condition, ahead of a scheduled spacewalk.
NASA broadcast an emergency situation on board the ISS on Wednesday at 6:32 p.m., with a voice from ground control asking to put an unnamed “commander” in his spacesuit for hypobaric treatment after being exposed to increased pressure.
About an hour later, the space agency clarified that there was no emergency situation on the ISS; instead the aired audio was from a simulation channel on the ground “indicating a crew member was experiencing effects related to decompression sickness,” NASA wrote on X.
“This audio was inadvertently misrouted from an ongoing simulation where crew members and ground teams train for various scenarios in space and is not related to a real emergency,” NASA added.
Decompression sickness, also known as the bends, typically occurs with change in pressure during scuba diving and can sometimes affect astronauts during spacewalks, forming bubbles in the bloodstream.
NASA had scheduled a spacewalk on Thursday for astronauts Tracy Dyson and Matt Dominick to complete the removal of a faulty electronics box.
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