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Your post is an example of forced rationality.

You're ignoring the fact that it's not just one production. I would consider your position if there was one continuous production with small to no variations.

Why are you ignoring the following?

- the sounds have the length of a yell or a moan.

- the silence between them is not fixed or related to any other sound that we can hear on the plane.

- there are no artifacts, except the weird pitch going up artificially in one of them, which might point to a prerecorded and manipulated sound

- if this was a electromechanical issue, it would have to mimic a significant part of the human anatomy, including a tongue (there are a few productions that sound like the throat is constricted and the tongue is rolling slightly).

Sure, a random electromechanical issue could have these characteristics, but isn't that extremely unlikely? You would expect other noises, not just the vocal-like sound.



Also I'm pretty sure I heard the sound of clearing the throat and spitting in the recording. Too many distinct categories of human-sounding sounds to be random electro mechanical or electromagnetic phenomena.




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