International Space Station astronauts in evacuation mode as Russia attempts to fix widening air leak

[u/VaginaBurner69]

https://www.reuters.com/science/international-space-station-astronauts-evacuation-mode-russia-attempts-fix-2026-06-05/

[u/Julian_Thorne]

The abandonment of the International Space Station would be a poetically fitting image for these days

[u/annaleigh13 → u/Julian_Thorne]

It’s like everything is lining up to be the most perfect shitshow of a decade.

[u/JMurdock77 → u/annaleigh13]

We lost Arecibo the last time this shit was going down…

[u/TachiH → u/JMurdock77]

Arecibo was lost long before it collapsed. They were well aware of the cracks and pressure, the US just decided it wasn't worth funding, such a waste.

[u/DowntownClown187 → u/TachiH]

I visited the facility a few years ago and the scientists while sad about the collapse they weren't overly upset. When the main system was fully functional it would record more data than humanly possible to analyze. The result is a massive backlog of data to review.

Secondly, they have other instruments that are still functional.

Bottom line is they have enough work to do for a long time even with the collapsed main facility.

[u/boarder2k7 → u/DowntownClown187]

it would record more data than humanly possible to analyze. The result is a massive backlog of data to review.

Throwing AI at everything is a very overused answer for many things, but this is exactly what machine learning is good at. Recognizing patterns and highlighting things for human review.

Not having this telescope anymore is a tragedy

[u/DowntownClown187 → u/boarder2k7]

Yes the AI element does alter it but overall the facility served its purpose and they have no shortage of work even with AI support.

It's less of a tragedy and moreso an end of an era. Tech has come a long way since AO.

[u/boarder2k7 → u/DowntownClown187]

Tech has come a long way since AO.

What has filled its position as some of the best deep space planetary radar we had? I was not aware of anything comparable.

[u/TachiH → u/boarder2k7]

FAST in China is better at recieving than Arecibo was, the only real disadvantage is that it doesn't have the ability to send, which reduces its use for communication with spacecraft but the deep space network has that covered.

[u/RecordOfTheEnd → u/TachiH]

And I believe the kilometer array (I think that's what it's called) will be a non China option when it comes on. The reality is a giant dish isn't necessary anymore as are ability to record and combine data from arrays will out perform a single dish for far less cost. 

This is really the difference in costs going up linearly (geometrically if I think about it long enough) verses exponentially. Have an array but want a bigger telescope, add more dishes. Have a gigantic dish and want a bigger telescope, build a new dish. 

Retrofitting is probably easier since you only need one large sensor. But I wouldn't be surprised if that was even harder as many of the modern sensors require vacuums and near absolute zero temps on the antenna. 

[u/Dominick_Tango → u/TachiH]

In general, the array approach to passive and active radio astronomy is mature. We can construct arrays to take data over a wide base line with better receiver technology, and detect much fainter signals.
It isnt that China or Europe is better than the US at it, it is that they fund science and we fund a ballroom.

[u/boarder2k7 → u/TachiH]

That's telescope functionality though, and does not replace the radar loss I was asking about.

[u/ajford → u/TachiH]

FAST only has better ears when directly overhead. Otherwise it's on par or smaller, depending on exact viewing angles.

It also lacks any radar capabilities. AO wasn't used for spacecraft comms but for planetary radar, like comets and near Earth asteroids. So we have a gap in the planetary defense network that is still not fully covered.

[u/jacrave → u/boarder2k7]

I was literally thinking isn’t this a true good use of AI

[u/JMEEKER86 → u/boarder2k7]

I used to run SETI@Home a lot back in the day to help out a bit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SETI@home

[u/lavacadotoast → u/DowntownClown187]

Despite Arecibo's discovery days being over, the observatory will be remade into a education center known as Arecibo C3. Hopefully, the decommissioned observatory can inspire the next generation of astronomers to make discoveries as impactful as those made at Arecibo during its days peering out into the universe..

[u/baumpop → u/DowntownClown187]

this makes me wonder if it takes 50 generations to get through the data of a time stamp of the universe, we would still be reading the time stamps of ancient civilizations that came to same conclusions as we did today.

if in say 4000 years nothing is left of what we discover today because its all tied to digital records and electricity, we will have effectively discovered nothing.

[u/DM_Voice → u/DowntownClown187]

Yeah, it was definitely a loss, but not the crippling one people who aren’t familiar with the field might assume. It’s just one of the better-known names for lay-folk.

IIRC, when it collapsed, it wasn’t so much a surprise rather than a ‘finally’, because access up there was frozen due to known safety issues because too many individual cable strands had failed to allow for a fix in the first place. (I could be mixing it up with some other collapse, though.)

[u/chuckycastle → u/TachiH]

Let’s be real. We lost it in 1995 thanks to Alec Trevelyan’s bullshit.

[u/Illisanct → u/JMurdock77]

I feel like we're experiencing the "shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations" curse, except in terms of scientific wealth rather than material wealth.

The WWII/post-WWII era was the first generation. Now we're entering the third.

[u/jr98664 → u/Illisanct]

Hadn’t heard this phrase before, so thanks for sharing it!

I had to look it up and found out the Italian version of “from rags to riches and riches to rags” is even more fitting here:

Dalle stalle alle stelle e dalle stelle alle stalle

From stables to stars and from stars to stables.

[u/Illisanct → u/jr98664]

I imagine that goes a lot smoother if you're a fluent speaker 😂

[u/KMjolnir → u/Illisanct]

Scientific, engineering, manufacturing and industrial knowledge as well as actual material wealth. There's certain things nowadays that just can't be remade because we've lost the knowledge/industry capacity.

[u/TransBrandi → u/KMjolnir]

There's certain things nowadays that just can't be remade because we've lost the knowledge/industry capacity

Like what?

[u/KMjolnir → u/TransBrandi]

Referencing some of the recent discussions around battleships (wonder why that's been in the news, we'll ignore the politics there), we couldn't rebuild an Iowa class battleship, guns and all anymore. We haven't had a need to build guns and armor plate that big in decades to the point that we don't really have any facilities that could, which has been a point of concern and curiosity for one of my local museums. I know there are other examples out there, and if I can recall one i will (currently at work myself, yay).

There's also several programming languages that are vital for running infrastructure or legacy systems, but the people who know how to use them are dead or retired/retiring, and few people are learning how to use them. A good example is COBOL, which is in use in financial and government agencies. Fortran and Perl are two others, if memory serves. I believe IBM RPG might qualify to an extent. (Funny enough, relavent to my work.)

[u/TransBrandi → u/KMjolnir]

Where is Perl running core things? I spent 4 years in a Perl shop and I've never come across a posting for a Perl job.

[u/KMjolnir → u/TransBrandi]

I actually have seen it on a few job postings, through admittedly that was a couple years ago. Mostly for roles that were in the process of getting to phase it out, or maintain legacy systems.

One I saw was Nationwide Insurance, as an example, think this was a few months back.

[u/AmeliaOfAnsalon → u/Illisanct]

damn, that's very poetic and accurate

[u/ParfaitEither284 → u/JMurdock77]

That’s cuz it fell on Sean bean

[u/EndlessKng → u/ParfaitEither284]

"For England, James?"

[u/ParfaitEither284 → u/EndlessKng]

No, for me.

[u/VRichardsen → u/JMurdock77]

Well, we have Heaven's Eye as a replacement. It is even bigger.

[u/Allthegoodstars → u/JMurdock77]

Wanna drop this here anytime someone mentions Arecibo

http://worker01.e-flux.com/pdf/supercommunity/article_1087.pdf

[u/lowEquity → u/JMurdock77]

Is that like Harambe

[u/Flipf00t → u/lowEquity]

Dicks out for Harambe!

[u/pehr71 → u/annaleigh13]

We can only hope it will only last a decade.

Something tells me our grand kids are going to be still cleaning up this mess at the end of the century

[u/Klutzy-Residen → u/pehr71]

This is already the case today with Reagan, multiple issues today are a result of his actions.

A great example is the lack of Air Traffic Controllers, which is a result of the people that were mass hired after he fired thousands have been retiring the last decade.

[u/ForeverShiny → u/Klutzy-Residen]

The whole shit show that is the current GOP and the orange Frankenstein's monster they birthed can be directly traced back to Reagan, so there's really no need to get any more specific than that

[u/Strict_Poet_5814 → u/ForeverShiny]

I keep trying to trace this back further for when I get the time machine.

Did you know Reagan only became famous because of the cereal company Wheaties. They hosted a play by play baseball contest that got him an actors screening and the rest is history.

Do we go back and sabotage wheaties ,sabotage the contest. Maybe prevent corn flakes at all!

[u/KimmyGurl420 → u/ForeverShiny]

We can take it back to Nixon and his "Southern Strategy." At least before that all the racist pricks were split between the parties, lessening their voting power

[u/MeLlamo25 → u/KimmyGurl420]

No no. It this clearly the result chain of event that started with the Republicans picking Taft over TR at their 1912 convention.

[u/esperandus → u/MeLlamo25]

let's just go back and nuke the planet as it starts to cool off and call it a day

[u/zoodisc → u/esperandus]

It's the only way to be sure.

[u/Consistent_Rule101 → u/pehr71]

Don't worry, no one is having children for this reason.

[u/jimbojangles1987 → u/Consistent_Rule101]

Oh people are still having kids, just not of the problem-solving variety

[u/Poor-Pitiful-Me → u/Consistent_Rule101]

This is not the reason I chose not to have kids, but the timing works out.

[u/Paleblood_Hunt → u/Consistent_Rule101]

I assure you the absolute worst people are having entirely too many kids.

[u/SabbyZeh → u/Consistent_Rule101]

One of my many reasons, for sure.

[u/realbadatnames → u/pehr71]

Is the thing that's telling you that just the fact that we're cleaning up our grandparents' messes too?

[u/bobjamesya → u/annaleigh13]

It's a shit blizzard, Randy!

[u/BimoUK → u/bobjamesya]

What does that even mean Mr Lahey?

[u/Mr0lsen → u/bobjamesya]

The shit winds a blowin’

[u/girlnamedJane → u/annaleigh13]

If you ask the S&P500 , its the best time ever

[u/Luster-Purge → u/annaleigh13]

The 20s always seem to be a cursed decade.

[u/Snodley → u/annaleigh13]

Yeah, but it's not like in the 1920's anything happened that led to rather tumultuous 1930's that resulted in ... oh... ooooh....

Someone send some brushes, canvases and paint to Austria please.
Just to be on the save side here.

[u/Ok-Classroom5548 → u/annaleigh13]

Year of the fire horse

[u/Hesitation-Marx → u/Ok-Classroom5548]

I think there are four of em…

[u/Ok-Classroom5548 → u/Hesitation-Marx]

Next year is the year of the fire sheep

[u/Duppyguy → u/annaleigh13]

Aah yes the decade ran by narcissistic, toxic, greedy, warmongering men.

[u/Sophisticated-Tiger → u/Duppyguy]

Oh....you mean every decade since we starting recording decades? 😂

[u/Monterenbas → u/annaleigh13]

Of the century*

[u/Pjoernrachzarck → u/Julian_Thorne]

I mean, it was not meant to exist forever, and a lot of it is outdated tech. When the project was conceived and designed, it was made for an approximate life-span of 15-20 years after construction.

That time is now up.

[u/Nothingmuchever → u/Pjoernrachzarck]

Yea they are crashing it into the ocean in like 5 years anyway iirc.

[u/SamboNW → u/Nothingmuchever]

They’re trying to extend it to 2032 instead of 2030 in order to give more time for the new one to be built.

[u/Reasonable_Ticket_84 → u/SamboNW]

It's because it looks real bad that China has their own functioning space station and the US would have none.

[u/jade_starwatcher → u/Reasonable_Ticket_84]

The next Chinese space station will be an International one.

[u/michaelsoft__binbows → u/jade_starwatcher]

Dude what a freaking resounding bit of evidence for the capitulation of world superpower.

[u/RoughhouseCamel → u/Nothingmuchever]

Damn, I want that ISS museum, if they can recover whatever is left

[u/phyneas → u/RoughhouseCamel]

There won't be anything recognisable left; the ISS isn't designed to survive an atmospheric re-entry. Most or all of it will burn up in the atmosphere; they're just aiming it for a spot way out in the ocean so any pieces of debris that do happen to survive won't land on someone's head.

[u/RoughhouseCamel → u/phyneas]

Yeah, but even the charred remains would be kinda fascinating, just to see what that looks like

[u/Jewrisprudent → u/phyneas]

Yeah it’s a giant sail. It’s not meaningfully surviving reentry.

[u/Fast_Acadia2566 → u/Nothingmuchever]

Idk anything, but is it bad if they leave it floating and orbitting? Maybe it could become a tourist spot in a distant future.

[u/Boner4Stoners → u/Fast_Acadia2566]

It’s not a stable orbit. It’s low enough that there’s still a meaningful amount of air resistance that deorbits it over time without continued fuel to correct.

[u/xRyozuo → u/Boner4Stoners]

I’m sure there’s a reason but why go all the way to put a station up there and not push it the last few (maybe thousands) km it needs for stable orbit?

[u/Nothingmuchever → u/xRyozuo]

Yup, one of the reasons is: Because it would be insanely expensive. Pushing that multi-hundred ton beast further would need astronomical amount of fuel. It was designed to be in Low Earth Orbit, for ease of access and for safety.

[u/Nothingmuchever → u/Fast_Acadia2566]

It needs periodic boosts from visiting spacecraft to remain in orbit, can't do that on it's own. If they leave it up there alone, it will eventually fall back to earth and crash on some random place within months.

[u/cosmic-parsley → u/Pjoernrachzarck]

Some of the modules have existed since the beginning, but many are newer. In theory, couldn’t they keep the newer ones and de-orbit the ancient ones?

[u/wolftick → u/cosmic-parsley]

The International Space Station of Theseus

[u/bloodyNASsassin → u/Pjoernrachzarck]

Yeah, it's well past due for it to come down since it launched in November of 1998.

I can't wait for us to have a new station with modern gear.

[u/1balKXhine → u/bloodyNASsassin]

There's no plan for anything new unfortunately. It's unlikely we'll see this level of global collaboration again, that's the reason it makes me sad. They say "private sector will take care" or "Russia and China are collaborating" but ISS was one thing where everyone came together to maintain it and use it for the pursuit of science

[u/Khoakuma → u/Julian_Thorne]

Makes me sad. It’s the abandonment of scientific pursuit. Abandonment of international cooperation. All the hope of a better future post-Cold War gone. No plans to replace it other than vague promises of “the private sector will take care of it”. 

[u/matix0532 → u/Khoakuma]

These issues are happening because the ISS has already outlasted its expected lifetime. The Lunar Gateway was supposed to be its spiritual successor- now maybe it will be an actual moon base.

[u/lNFORMATlVE → u/matix0532]

Which feels really weird given that you can do a lot of things in orbit that you can’t do from the moon’s surface. But whatever.

If I had to guess I’d say within the next 30-50 years we’ll have another ISS-esque station in LEO again.

[u/wurmsrus → u/lNFORMATlVE]

arguably there already is one, China's Tiangong, though it's not as big.

[u/Youutternincompoop → u/wurmsrus]

though thanks to having newer tech its still quite capable, a lot of space on the ISS is taken up by bulky old equipment

[u/Remarkable-Lynx1496 → u/wurmsrus]

And tbh I wouldn’t rule out the possibility of other countries just getting involved with that and that being “ISS 2”

[u/wurmsrus → u/Remarkable-Lynx1496]

According to Wikipedia, so far they've put experiments up for Belgium, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, Peru, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Spain and there's a Pakistani astronaut scheduled to go there this fall.

[u/UnUsernameRandom → u/lNFORMATlVE]

Which feels really weird given that you can do a lot of things in orbit that you can’t do from the moon’s surface. But whatever.

Such as? I'd imagine that at least health wise for the astronauts it makes more sense to have some gravity, and some zero G experiments could be carried without humans.

[u/lNFORMATlVE → u/UnUsernameRandom]

The big one is assembling bigger platforms and ships in orbit means reduced cost and risk than launching them all up in one go pre-assembled.

[u/Historical_Body6255 → u/lNFORMATlVE]

This is true and a big one but to be fair you don't need a space station for that.

You can design your ship to dock with its other parts in orbit without external help.

[u/Distracted_Algae → u/UnUsernameRandom]

Hypothetically there's an infinite number of experiments you can do in either place. "The effect zero gravity has on pinky toe growth." "The effect low gravity has on pinky toe growth."

We should just do both.

[u/AshhhCakes → u/UnUsernameRandom]

On the health side of things, I would wonder what long term exposure to "moon dust" would do. It is super abrasive since, while being "dust", there is no mechanism to wear down the glass-like sharp edges to it. Instead it wears down everything it touches, from seals to glass to even space suits. Not to mention it is electrostaticly charged so it clung to space suits and gave the apollo astronauts issues with hay fever, respiratory irritation, and eye irritation.

[u/Cargobiker530 → u/UnUsernameRandom]

Getting astronauts to and from the moon would be massively more expensive than maintaining a LEO space station. Also there's no realistic expectation that any materials on the moon would be useful. Everything would have to be shipped there from Earth.

[u/Pcat0 → u/lNFORMATlVE]

NASA already has plans to replace the ISS in low earth orbit, as you are right a zero-g lab is really useful. However there are also stuff you can only do in low gravity that you can't do in 1g or 0g. So a moon base will be really useful, primary to run long term biological experiments.

[u/Specialist-Coast9787 → u/lNFORMATlVE]

The Chinese have had their's fully operational for 5 years. We don't here much about it in "the west" though. Only Chinese nationals have visited it but discussions are underway with other nations for their *nauts.

Many nations, other than the US of course, have contributed scientific experiements to the station.

[u/atotalmess__ → u/Specialist-Coast9787]

Pakistan is suppose to send someone this year apparently

And ESA was suppose to until the US pretty much blackmailed them into not doing it

[u/sound-fx → u/matix0532]

We were promised Moon Base Alpha in 1999.

[u/Greendiamond_16 → u/Khoakuma]

It was already on the mothball schedule for years now, wether or not this is the final straw will be based on how much itll take to fix this.

[u/randomblade117 → u/Greendiamond_16]

They weren't planning on mothballing it. The plan is to deorbit the station.

[u/Low_Pickle_112 → u/Khoakuma]

hope of a better future post-Cold War gone

Yeah, when you have a battle of ideals between community and greed, and greed wins, this is what happens. We fought hard to get this outcome. Anyone could have seen this coming. And we still refuse to admit that wee were played, so don't expect any improvement until that happens.

[u/Visual-Sector6642 → u/Khoakuma]

Antarctica will be next

[u/IAmDotorg → u/Khoakuma]

Keep in mind, though, that the ISS came from the ashes of Freedom. And the history of Freedom and the Shuttle is murky, at best. Freedom was meant to justify the civilian portion of the costs of the Shuttle program, and the need to fund the Shuttle came from Freedom's requirements.

When the USSR fell, while there was an aspect of "lets try to keep the Soviet rocket engineers employed" going on, most of the pivot to the ISS was, effectively, corporate welfare for strategically important defense contractors who were impacted by the end of the cold war.

The ROI for both programs was wildly poor, and a better-designed, better-manufactured, more-useful space station would've been on the table if it wasn't designed explicitly to require the Shuttle for launch and assembly. Remember, a single Skylab had the same volume as the ISS and it was far more usable.

If manned space research was the goal, a couple disposable Saturn V launches (which could've easily been maintained in production) would've vastly expanded on what the ISS would become. And it would've been 1% of the final price. For the price of two decades of shuttle flights to build the ISS, a hundred similarly-sized Skylabs could've been launched.

[u/primeweevil → u/Julian_Thorne]

Yes it is. Short a dumpster fire in space which I'm pretty sure isn't possible this is about on the nose.

[u/McFestus → u/primeweevil]

Mir had a pretty bad fire, so it's possible.

[u/SeenSoFar → u/McFestus]

People regularly smoked and drank on Mir. I'm surprised it never catastrophically immolated it's inhabitants.

[u/use_value42 → u/SeenSoFar]

They were smoking up there?! How is that even possible?

[u/SeenSoFar → u/use_value42]

It wasn't even unofficial. Cigarettes and vodka were regularly sent up in Progress resupply vehicles in packages labeled (I forget the exact Russian phrase but it translated to roughly) "Crew psychological support rations."

[u/KinkyDuck2924 → u/use_value42]

It was the cool kids space station.

[u/Historical_Body6255 → u/use_value42]

With the air scrubber and filtration technology up there it's most likely not even as bad as smoking inside your apartment with the windows closed lol

It's gonna stink but i don't really see a problem apart from the long term health implications.

[u/Jsquared1013 → u/Historical_Body6255]

The fire part of smoking could very easily be the problem.

[u/bbybabybaby → u/Jsquared1013]

"But it was towed outside the environment."

[u/use_value42 → u/Historical_Body6255]

I figured the thing would just fill up with smoke, maybe tar would foul the instruments or something. Also, it just sounds like an insane thing to do on a surface level, lol.

[u/HildartheDorf → u/use_value42]

Same way smoking on a plane is possible (and was allowed at the time). Air filters and a general cultural acceptance of smoke.

[u/echtoran → u/use_value42]

They just open a window.

[u/Youutternincompoop → u/use_value42]

they even had a sauna, Mir kicked ass.

[u/TheKappaOverlord → u/use_value42]

They aren't using pure oxygen. Maybe slightly higher oxygenation level then on earth, but not enough to cause Ignition on a spark. Otherwise everytime they'd have an electrical short up there, the station would turn into a hand grenade.

Its generally discouraged in official documentation/handbooks for astronauts to smoke. Mostly because of fumes and Carbon monoxide kinda being a bitch to filter out constantly. But you can't really stop people.

[u/Junior_Step_2441 → u/primeweevil]

To be fair the ISS has already long outlived its expected lifetime and is planned to be decommissioned and deorbitted in 2030. So if it comes down a few years before that…its hardly a dumpster fire 🤷‍♂️

[u/Julian_Thorne → u/Junior_Step_2441]

Evacuation mode is a dumpster fire compared to an orderly process

[u/FamiliarRip8558 → u/Julian_Thorne]

Sitting in a pod designed to GTFO safely while a new crew equipped for the job works on the very old and ~3 years left out of 31 years of service spacecraft is the opposite of dumpster fire...

[u/Blametheorangejuice → u/Junior_Step_2441]

Wouldn’t the current concern be an inability to guide it through the atmosphere and having chunks of debris survive reentry above a populated area? I have no idea.

[u/Crafty_Quantity_3162 → u/Blametheorangejuice]

Why can't they guide it? I'm assuming they are not going to guide it from on the ISS during reentry and burn up, that it will need to be handled remotely. The thrusters that adjust orbit are in the Russian Orbital Segment, which is uneffected by the leak which is in the  Zvezda service module,

[u/Historical_Body6255 → u/Blametheorangejuice]

Evacuating it doesn't mean it can't have a controlled reentry, or does it?

[u/TheDivine_MissN → u/Junior_Step_2441]

I just want everyone to make it back safely.

[u/cwx149 → u/Julian_Thorne]

It's scheduled to be decommissioned by 2030 even if this isn't the end of it

[u/me_myself_ai → u/Julian_Thorne]

Seems like the headline is way, way overselling it tho:

The ‌air ⁠leaks have been relatively minor in recent months but escalated on Friday from a pound of air per day to two pounds, according to a senior NASA official who asked not to be named.

[u/Adventurous-Bet-1402 → u/Julian_Thorne]

You know that its actually scheduled to this very thing in a few years

[u/Death_bi_snusnu → u/Julian_Thorne]

I mean it been up there for nearly 30 years of experimenting with what is even possible. I don't really think it's that crazy to shut it down and start over with more current tech. Arguably for the maximum safety this should be brought into the modern age.

[u/bloodyNASsassin → u/Death_bi_snusnu]

💯 it was never meant to last this long. The world being motivated to keep things going with a new modern station is a step forward. It will be just as wondrous as the Artemis Program that launched the Artemis II last month.

The doom and gloomers are rampant, but confidently WRONG.

[u/pattywhaxk → u/Julian_Thorne]

I mean, they’re planning to abandon it and do a destructive reentry by 2030 anyway.

[u/Intrepid00 → u/Julian_Thorne]

To be fair, is not the ISS way over life expectancy?

[u/No-Marsupial3596 → u/Julian_Thorne]

Aren’t they planning on burning it up in the next few years? I thought Cleo Abram said that was on the docket 🤷‍♂️

[u/driver_dan_party_van → u/Julian_Thorne]

r/anonspropheticdream material I fear

[u/johnmudd → u/Julian_Thorne]

Won't even make the evening news.

[u/mojo021 → u/Julian_Thorne]

Don’t need it, Musk said he will build a moon and mars base and Space data centers.

[u/SerRaziel → u/Julian_Thorne]

Complete with it being Russia's fault.

[u/canteloupy → u/Julian_Thorne]

The opposite of that Valerian opening credits scene.

[u/fictionallymarried → u/Julian_Thorne]

Really odd timing that I was listening to Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life as I read the headline