"Talk"

[gwiz]

or proof that Paul McCartney is dead?

[Retrograde]

gwiz said:

or proof that Paul McCartney is dead?

Perhaps it was Tina Brown, getting some publicity for her forthcoming mag, Talk.

[echnaton]

One of my daughters said “Oopie” to me once, just before she went “blorp” on my shoe.

[JayUtah]

See, it's easy to think you hear monosyllabic words in noise. Now if the voice had said something like, "My hovecraft is filled with eels," or "I seem to be having tremendous problems with my lifestyle," then Sibrel's case would start to make some sense. But for all we know that was the sound of a dying giraffe.

[sts60]

Of course it was dying. The "searing radiation hell" killed the poor thing. Jay inadvertently proves the HB case!

[bughead]

No way could you fit a giraffe thru the doorway into the command module. The only place it could have been is in the empty CSM fuel tanks. (Empty, of course, because they stayed in low-earth-orbit for the missions with the giraffe.)

[Kiwi]

jayutah said:

See, it's easy to think you hear monosyllabic words in noise.

Well, it wasn't all that easy to make some up. But at least the noises are now indexed so people can hear all of them in that first TV transmission. Most of the noises are like vowel sounds and I had to dream up words and syllables that, if garbled, might sound like those noises. The hardest part was trying to find something that actually makes sense. Of the few that do, "Janet" and "Whose dinner?", the original noises don't sound exactly like that, but those words, if garbled, might sound like the noises.

Additionally, I wanted to joke a little too and pull the HB's legs, so that's why I leapt on "Janet" because it was Neil's wife's name.

An interesting thing is that in the very next TV transmission on the Spacecraft Films DVD, Neil is asleep, Buzz is operating the camera, and Mike is working at a panel, most likely the DSKY. Probably because Neil is sleeping, Buzz and Mike are not talking, so there are none of the noises. So much for BS's claim that it's a third party saying "talk".

However, the noises return in the subsequent transmissions when the astronauts talk among themselves and to Houston. At one stage we can even see Mike Collins press his push-to-talk button to speak to Houston:
30:10 Collins: Okay, thankyou. [Two seconds before Mike Collins says this, we can see him reach down and press his push-to-talk button, then release it.]


[Fixed greengrocer's apostrophe three years later.]

[JayUtah]

I'm extremely pleased that you indexed all those noises. Like I told Turbonium, I hear them all the time but I don't pay attention to them. It's like radio static to me; I know what they are, so I don't care about them. But when people ask to hear them, it's frustrating not to be able to send people right to the source.