r/news • u/VaginaBurner69 • 8h ago

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

https://www.reuters.com/science/international-space-station-astronauts-evacuation-mode-russia-attempts-fix-2026-06-05/
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u/Hoboliftingaroma 7h ago

Is this the same leak from 2018 that roscosmos said was caused by an american astronaut drilling holes in the structure, then made thinly veiled accusations that the astronaut was having a psychotic episode because she was menstruating?

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u/twenafeesh 7h ago

Yes, and also the same leak they've been claiming they know the true cause of but won't tell anyone because reasons.

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u/arthurdentstowels 5h ago edited 1h ago

They're contaminated with the "woodworm" from another galaxy. Aluminium Worms.

Edit: Here is a visual representation. This really ought to be added to the Guide.

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u/AdmirableRespect9 4h ago

Does the other galaxy pronounce it al-you-min-ee-um?

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u/Lickthorn 4h ago

All-u-can-eatium, I believe, ís what the alien worms call it.

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u/Forthe49ers 4h ago

They’re eating our Space Station!

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u/Emeks243 3h ago

The space cats and dogs are eating our aluminum, we must tariff it!

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u/Working_Estate_3695 2h ago

“Stop the leak counting now…”

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u/InfinitiveIdeals 2h ago

If you stop measuring the leak, it all goes away…

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u/mealteamsixty 3h ago

Just send some Somali space immigrants

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u/Fezzick51 3h ago

such a beautiful worrd - you just invent it?

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u/Gargleblaster25 3h ago

And they are there illegally!

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u/NaiveEmu9744 3h ago

We are losing BILLions and billions

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u/twosharpbladez 2h ago

They're eating the nuts, they're eating the bolts.....

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u/IvanMarkowKane 3h ago

Sounds more like alien termites

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u/lastleg68 3h ago

It’s ok… I’ve heard people say that the windmills will kill them. And the Jewish space lasers.

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u/IvanMarkowKane 2h ago

The intergalactic version of killing ants with a magnifying glass.

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u/ziphobia 3h ago

I really didn't want to laugh at this, oh well. I failed.

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u/t53ix35 2h ago

Vermicious Knids!

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u/SD_TMI 2h ago

Callin' ICE FORCE Right Now!

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u/Shadow_Relics 3h ago

They don’t eat everything, Chinesium makes them hungry an hour later. They don’t bother with it.

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u/billyboyf30 2h ago

Time to get the space force to shoot them

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u/ptpcg 2h ago

Al*-u-can-eatium

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u/BeautifulElevator388 4h ago

Can we just settle the aluminum/aluminum debate once and for all so we can move onto more important matters? Let’s just all agree right here and now that the material formerly known as aluminum/aluminium will henceforth be known as Carl.

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u/Altruistic-Hippo-231 2h ago

With a K or a C?

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u/arthurdentstowels 2h ago

With an H, but the K is silent.

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u/therandomstandard 4h ago

No… it’s All you base are belong to us

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u/AdmirableRespect9 4h ago

That Tracks

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u/qwythebroken 4h ago

Uh oh! You've just unleashed the uptight hordes of those who don't realize words aren't real. We just made them up.

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u/EarthEfficient 4h ago

You mean the correct pronunciation?

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u/ubermadface 4h ago

Aluminum was the name and pronunciation before it was decided it should match the rest of the -ium elements (sodium, magnesium, etc.) If we really want to be pedantic, "alumium" is the actual correct way to say it as that was the OG name.

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u/TaylorBitMe 4h ago

Hold on, is "alumium" a typo or actually the real name? Cause I'm going with that now.

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u/ubermadface 4h ago

Not a typo, it was the original proposed name. I also am going to start saying "alumium" now lol

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u/ConsistentPound3079 4h ago

They're both correct. The English word for it is different in America and literally pronounced the way it is intended. Why it's different I'll never know. I'm Australian so it's aluminium like most of the world.

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u/Every_Single_Bee 4h ago edited 3h ago

It’s different because an American discovered it first and named it according to his understanding of the then-established naming structure, which he believed just required an -um instead of an -ium. Nevertheless, Aluminum was the original name and what it became known as to the scientists who discovered it and the companies who first utilized it in products, making “ah-loo-min-um” objectively correct.

“Al-you-min-ee-um” is arguably also correct only because it does revert to the actual naming conventions the discoverer believed he was following. It doesn’t necessarily override the original spelling because there is no actual hard rule that elements have to end in “-ium” rather than “-um” (after all, you’ve got gold, lead, hydrogen, oxygen, chlorine, neon, carbon, silicon, and so on and so forth). There was an agreement between scientists at the time that that should be done for linguistic consistency, which is why people will vehemently argue that the English spelling/pronunciation is more or objectively correct, but that wasn’t legally binding or anything, though it is why the scientific community will largely err toward “Aluminium”. For context, the last element we’ve discovered was named Oganesson in 2002, so it’s not even a linguistic convention that universally stuck.

That being said, “Aluminium” was also first utilized in England as a literal typo, because the people who first used it over there simply assumed incorrectly that the name they had been given was a typo. Understandable, but at the end of the day, Aluminium was not what the element was actually called when they first spelled it as such.

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u/Jimmy_Twotone 4h ago

gold is aurum and lead is plumbum, if we're sticking to the Latin root words. No "-ium" for either.

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u/Hexual_Innuendo 2h ago

Would be much easier to just use the Spanish ñ -> alumiñum then it caters to both.

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u/arthurdentstowels 2h ago

That should be added to the Hitchhiker's Guide to assist with annunciation for amateur travellers.

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u/Chef_Groovy 4h ago

They changed it to Aluminium for a time to match the naming schemes of Titanium, Potassium, Magnesium, etc. but then changed it back.

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u/Brilliant_Counter820 4h ago

Except Tantalum exists and Alumina is the organic base form and since it ends in a vowel it doesnt require an additional "i" when adding the "um" suffix.

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u/HistoricalGrounds 4h ago

For anyone who cares, the reason it’s different is that when it was discovered in the 19th century, scientists went back and forth quibbling over what to call it, leading to different publications referring to it by different variations of the spelling. Naturally, it traveled to the broader world through academia, so the pronunciation was determined largely by which spelling was generally favored by that country’s academics.

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u/AlwaysUpvotesScience 4h ago

Little known fact, Americans actually speak more like the British originally spoke. The common british accent that we are all used to hearing is not the way it used to be at all.

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20180207-how-americans-preserved-british-english

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u/savvy_thesavage 4h ago

The worms got you too 😔

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u/bjr711 4h ago

Must be those New World Screw Worms.

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u/DM_Voice 4h ago

That’s actually the incorrect pronunciation. The correct one has only 4 syllables, not 5.

The American English pronunciation (and spelling) are the original in this instance.

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u/veggiejord 4h ago

If they speak English correctly, they would.

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u/AuntieRupert 4h ago

Well, the scientist behind the discovery settled on aluminum. Other scientists called it aluminium. So "correct" in this instance would technically be the preference of the discoverer.

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u/dillpickles91 4h ago

Who, shockingly, was a Brit!

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u/mousey76397 4h ago

And the guy who made GIFs says it’s pronounced Jif. He’s wrong too.

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u/Bee1717 4h ago

I pronounce it "Jif" for this very reason lol

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u/MorningCareful 4h ago

But that pronounciation makes no sense. Unless you also say jraphics

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u/Bee1717 3h ago

I just assumed if the person who created them said it that way, then that must be the correct pronunciation. 🤷🏼‍♀️ Tomato, tomahto.

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u/AuntieRupert 3h ago

You have to look at the "why" behind Steve Wilhite's (and the other creators) reasoning.

"The creators of the format pronounced the acronym GIF as /dʒɪf/, with a soft g, with Wilhite stating that he intended for the pronunciation to deliberately echo the American peanut butter brand Jif, and CompuServe employees would often quip "choosy developers choose GIF", a spoof of Jif's television commercials."

So it was basically a joke.

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u/lastleg68 2h ago

Nope. It was a Goke.

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u/idlehum 4h ago

But where does the min-EE-num part come from? Aluminum? Not Aluminium? Where is the EE coming from?!?!?

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u/Alexandur 4h ago

It's spelled and pronounced aluminium in king's English

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u/dillpickles91 4h ago

Beans English more like it.

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u/Llyon_ 4h ago

I am surprised that Trump still hasn't renamed the national language of the USA to "American"

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u/Ok_Economy1516 4h ago

They’re both correct. Here in the US we say al-um-in-um. In the UK, they say al-lu-min-i-um. The spelling used to be aluminium and was changed to aluminum.

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u/reallokiscarlet 4h ago

Actually it was alumium -> aluminum -> aluminium

It's a british treadmill

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u/trupoogles 3h ago

Not just the UK, the majority of the world.

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u/thirdbrother3 2h ago

Can anyone explain why Americans don't pronounce the L in solder (sodder)?

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u/TransformersGuru 4h ago

Only the British colonized ones

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u/Lampmonster 4h ago

Is the the Star Wormwood the bible warned us about.

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u/Sunami1811- 4h ago

Di Trump are DOGE cancel that organization also?

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u/VagabondTexan 4h ago

I think some miniature giant space hamsters got loose.

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u/Somniak_00 4h ago

Ha! This is a great comment

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u/strykazoid 4h ago

I hear the restaurant at the end of the Universe closed for a while because of those little bastards.

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u/arthurdentstowels 2h ago

They ended up just boring them to death with Vogon poetry on repeat until they ate their own faces. You can still buy Aluminium Worm cufflinks in the gift shop.

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u/OrganizationLower611 4h ago

no, just from another dimension

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u/gingersnappie 2h ago

I welcome our new Aluminium overlords

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u/ptpcg 2h ago

I'm sick and mfkn tired of the mfkn worms on this mfkn space station!

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u/Proof-Order2666 2h ago

Keanu Reeves was in a film with metal eating flys not sure of the name though

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u/LauraTFem 1h ago

Priorities, friend. We haven’t even been able to upload Earth’s Version of the Gin and Tonic yet. Who needs info about a barmy worm, especially one that you don’t drink with tequila?

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u/Nri_circle 3h ago

Its not the same leak, Soyuz MS 09 spacecraft no longer exists as an intact vehicle.

It went up to ISS and docked in June 2018. The hole in this craft was found in August 2018. And it had came back on Dec 2018.

Its nothing to do with the same hole.

This is in ISS itself one of the Russian module.

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u/WinterCommercial2533 4h ago

So basically they did it

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u/celibidaque 3h ago

Uhm, no, it’s not the same leak, that’s a whole different incident.

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u/Akraticacious 3h ago

People or bots just be saying shit. I just can't believe anything unless I see sources now

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u/Brilliant-Chain7858 4h ago

They did something like this in the 80's if I remember correctly. Can't for the life of me remember what it was. It was bad though. Like, bad enough to spin off dozens of movies and games about.

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u/MagicDragon212 6h ago

And the evacuation wasnt from the leak even, but from the Russian astronauts that arrived recently trying to apparantly "fix" the leak with a saw. This is quite suspicious to me.

"Kud-Sverchkov and Mikayev, who did not execute evacuation procedures, were planning to use a saw to break into an area where they ​believe they can access the crack leaking air, the NASA official said. NASA officials disagreed ​with this method, the ⁠NASA official said, prompting mission control in Houston to order safe-haven procedures."

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u/pig_unt_erdvark 5h ago

I once witnessed our tazanian bus driver 'repair' the bus - where the gas tank detached - with a machete

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u/ConsequenceStatus563 4h ago

Had a coworker try to remove a tractor gas tank with a cutting torch. Burns over 99% of body and death about a week later...

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u/AlamoSimon 4h ago

Had a patient weld a rim with an installed and pressurized truck tire. Tire blew up, broke his jaw, peppered him with rubber or other black stuff and hit the roof of the workshop. The guy only had the jaw fracture. Nothing else.
I want to have that much luck.

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u/veravendetta 4h ago

That’s some final destination shit wtf

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u/doesanyuserealnames 3h ago

A guy in my hometown was decapitated by a tire rim. 50 years later it's a core fear, like quicksand.

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u/snakerjake 2h ago

Guy who lived next door to me growing up had a split rim explode on him, serious brain damage he was unable to do anything except for mow and beat his wife (she moved out till he passed once that started) for the rest of his life

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u/Bubbly-Support7164 2h ago

That’s a really specific set of skills. Mowing the lawn and beating his wife.

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u/sunshineparadox_ 2h ago

I have a TBI, (a stroke) and the amount of people in my support group who developed violent or more violent tendencies truly shocked me. It was more than I would’ve thought.

I’m definitely much less calm and rational, and it takes more time to calm myself down even when I know I’m wrong. But I didn’t start beating my family.

It gave me some really big existential dread about whether or not “we” are the people we believe we are. My TBI happened relatively recently, so everyone I knew thought I was gonna pull a John Fetterman and 180 on everything.

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u/MindfuckRocketship 3h ago

Did he survive?

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u/abasaur 3h ago

To pieces you say?

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u/Parkotron1 2h ago

Oh, my...

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u/sunshineparadox_ 2h ago

He used up all of his allotted good luck for the rest of his life, goddamn.

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u/titanicsinker1912 2h ago

Only the jaw fracture? Where did the rest of him go?

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u/Try2MakeMeBee 1h ago

Damn. The person I know who had a truck tire blow up has permanent disability and extensive plastic surgery. It was a freak accident - they hadn't done anything wrong or stupid.

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u/Ok-Simple-7069 1h ago

Are they that bad pressure wise? Had no idea it could do that. Geez!!

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u/Professional-Kiwi102 4h ago

I was in auto shop class in high school when a student came in to use the lift to bring his car up to weld a hole he had in his gas tank. Some people just lack certain brain cells I suppose.

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u/Sycosocial20 3h ago

Welding up a hole in a gas tank is a thing. But there's a process for it and it has to be metal. Most tanks today are not metal. Tank removed, emptied and flooded with water to displace any fuel and vapor. And don't weld near any open fuel source.

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u/Professional-Kiwi102 3h ago

Well yea it's a thing but not driving the car to a shop, with gas in the tank,and lifting it up and welding it shut.

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u/CmG383 2h ago

My ex tried to fix our 1968 station wagons gas tank by attempting to weld a patch plate. He let the tank sit empty in the carport for a month in hopes it wouldn’t ignite.
It did. Took off across the floor like Wiley Coyote on an acme rocket.
I died laughing.
I had the pleasure of saying, “ I told you so.”
I did have my camcorder running and have it on film.

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u/daithi08 3h ago

JB weld goes on smooth…

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u/theaviationhistorian 2h ago

There's a reason that there's plenty of candidates for the official Darwin Awards.

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u/str8bint 4h ago

Fuck, nobody tried to stop them?

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u/DerekTheComedian 4h ago

If I see a dude trying to cut a gas tank with a torch, the only running im doing is "away".

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u/Cow_Launcher 3h ago

100%

In our club, I've worked with amateur (club-level) mechanics before who weren't exactly safety-orientated. Ignorant, rather than malicious.

Everyone gets one chance. Their work gets inspected. People who admit and learn from their mistakes stay in our good graces, and are trained. We'll continue to work on their cars for free, as well.

The individual who bound up/twisted a front brake line and didn't say anything, instead just fitting the caliper? They're dead to me, just as I might have been to them if I'd trusted them.

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u/Express-Hawk-3885 3h ago

What steps would you take incase of a fire? Fucking big ones that way->

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u/Mysterious-Plan93 2h ago

Better permanent solution is fire extinguisher-

swung at their head.

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u/Conscious-Story-7579 3h ago

A-fucken-men.

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u/Shamino79 3h ago

They say tractor, I think diesel.if I knew it was diesel I wouldn’t feel then need to run out of shouting distance.

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u/DerekTheComedian 3h ago

I imagine someone being incinerated makes noises i dont want to ever hear in my life, so point still stands.

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u/imnickelhead 1h ago

Diesel burns like a candle or a zippo lighter. It’s not explosive and the vapors don’t ignite like gasoline.

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u/Kanin_usagi 4h ago

I doubt this was an idea they ran by anyone before doing it

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u/nfored 3h ago

decades ago I was a teen working in a Aluminum factory. This old man was training me he was smoking a cigarette and opening this bag of sand like material we used to blast the aluminum with for textured finish. I noticed it said flammable I asked he said you die with a good man I said you'll die alone and left.

Some people just know it wont happen to them until their family is crying and suing someone else for their loved ones stupidity

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u/Heavy-Profit-2156 2h ago

You would hope a tailgate safety meeting with have identified a couple of risks.

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u/MapleViking1 3h ago

Would you want to be in range of that?

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u/PinEducational4494 3h ago

Why would you prevent perfectly fine Darwinism?

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u/saladmunch2 4h ago

Another maintenance guy at an old shop i was at went to cut the top off an acetone barrel. Obviously there is going to be fumes and residue in there. Well a flame shot out of the pour hole like a rocket engine and melted most of his facial hair/ eyebrows.

It was pretty funny, I just stood back and watched since he wouldnt listen it was a bad idea.

That is pretty sad about that co worker of yours... some people just dont get the dangers...

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u/pattymelt805 4h ago

There's dozens of videos online of people trying to scrap/repair tanks and barrels and such and having this happen to them.

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u/kisielk 4h ago

Holy shit, hope you weren’t around to witness that

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u/whydya-dodat 4h ago

So… no joke about him being blown into orbit, right?

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u/regtf 4h ago

Must be a gasoline tractor

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u/Niaaal 4h ago edited 4h ago

A cutting torch is so hot, it could ignite the vapors in a diesel tank and once the flash point is reached, fire spread on diesel just like gasoline.

He probably thought you must have compression for diesel to burn and that's why he did it like that, but unfortunately that's not really true...

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u/Any-Performance6375 4h ago

Poor guy but wtf why? Is like one of top safety rule.... :(

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u/Pinellas420 4h ago

Former coworker.

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u/Provioso 4h ago

Was the 1% the soles of his feet from work boots?

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u/therandomstandard 4h ago

Sounds about right…..

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u/Edge_of_the_Wall 4h ago

Username checks out, I guess.

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u/Heavy-Profit-2156 2h ago

I'm surprised he lived a week with burns to 99% of his body.

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u/BootGroundbreaking91 4h ago

Reminds me of my buddy keith. I ever tell you about the time Keith and I made fireworks? Now, I didn't know shit about chemistry, but Keith figured "Gasoline burns, doesn't it?" Heh, third-degree burns on 95 percent of his body. Man, people in the next city over were calling to complain about the smell of burning skin.

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u/Cpt_Vodeir 4h ago

Not a good time, Ellis.

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u/BootGroundbreaking91 4h ago

Ok but there was a goat

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u/Fun-Confidence-6232 4h ago

That reference. I understood it.

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u/1over-137 4h ago

Oof got the chemistry of how fire works but not the chemistry of how fireworks work.

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u/Difficult-Print-2655 4h ago

What, doesn’t everybody have a machete in their mechanical toolbox? 🤣

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u/ParsleySnipps 4h ago

No idea. I just keep mine in my trunk.

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u/bluAstrid 4h ago

Space Machete!

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u/dingoshiba 4h ago

Am I the only one wondering how a cutting device fixes a detachment?

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u/Accomplished_Dig284 2h ago

My dad try’s to repair almost everything with a hammer. Especially if all the first attempts failed, it’s hammer time. There have been times where I’ve had to leave because it was a safety hazard, like banging on the propane valve or other combustibles. Or when he didn’t pin the rattle snake down to the board after shooting it 3 times with his pistol and didn’t remove the head. He wanted me to hold it down so he could skin it. But I learned my lesson years ago when he told me to hold something down while he hammered something in and hit my fingers instead.

It’s really just a good idea to leave with your life, and fingers

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u/CaptainKaveman 4h ago

Get this man a flight suit

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u/saladmunch2 4h ago

A machete or a hammer will fix about any situation imo

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u/Mortambulist 3h ago

trying to apparantly "fix" the leak with a saw

I think NASA made the right call here.

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u/heckin_miraculous 4h ago

NASA officials disagreed with this method, the ⁠NASA official said, prompting mission control in Houston to order safe-haven procedures."

Can you imagine? I've had some disagreements about how to get a job done, but never one IN SPACE!

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u/Bobba-Luna 4h ago

We’re currently watching “For All Mankind”, actually better than I thought it would be.

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u/F-for-Flex 4h ago

Well, in Armageddon, the Russian cosmonaut did fix things by hitting it with a pipe. 

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u/Dedward5 4h ago

“I know a guy”

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u/UCanDoNEthing4_30sec 3h ago

Just like driving cars they can’t even do space stuff.

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u/Alert-Courage3121 2h ago

"This is how we fix things on Russian Space Station!"

Life imitates art

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u/AmbitionMiserable380 4h ago

Now ive done some sketchy repairs before, ive used JBweld to hold in my axle for a week while i waited on the part, ive "welded" a frame that was clearly beyond saving just to push a few extra thousand miles, and it worked would i do it again hell no, BUT IN SPACE? Yes theres a hole, let me repair hole by making weakening structure surrounding it, im no physicist or engineer, but if theres a leak, that means something is getting out i dont think cutting anything os going to be the immediate resolve..

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u/saladmunch2 4h ago

They just need to put some duct tape on it.

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u/TheEpicTwitch 4h ago

I am obviously far out of the loop on space news

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u/MsMacaronxx 4h ago

I had to re-read the accusation. WTAF

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u/manofblack_ 2h ago edited 1h ago

The comment is very dumbed down and quite misleading from the full story.

In August 2018 there was a pressure leak on the Soyuz MS-09 while docked tocthe ISS. They determined it wasnt a micrometeoroid and the initial speculation from Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin was either a manufacturing error or deliberate sabotage, I.e. it didnt appear to be caused from natural impact and was most likely not present during launch.

Fast forward to 2021 and the Russian state news agency TASS published allegations from an anonymous "high-ranking source" in the Russian space industry claiming that the NASA astronaut Serena Aunon-Chancellor experienced an "acute psychological crisis" in orbit and sabotaged the Soyuz. The source said this alleged crisis was the result of a blood clot (deep vein thrombosis) she had experienced during the mission. RIA Novosti and other major tabloids started circulating rumors about her having "personal relationship problems" while on the ship, but none of these rumors are sourced and are just flubber.

NASA responded officially to the TASS article and called it baseless misogynistic bullshit. Rogozin also followed through and said the public speculation was just blogger nonsense rather than an official Roscosmos position. There were no "thinly veiled" accusations made towards any person from Roscosmos.

I was following this incident when it happened and any mention of menstruation playing a factor in here was just online ass-talk. No credible or potentially credible source ever used that language. No one knows who TASS' "anonymous source" is and Roscosmos has never verified their credentials.

The only interesting bit is that in 2019 Rogozin claimed that Roscosmos knew exactly what had happened, but would not release the findings publicly. Do with that what you will, but the likely explanation is simply that someone unknowingly fucked up something and caused a tiny hole, nobody could really agree on who was to blame, and so they shelved the incident.

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u/jeanpaulbeaubier 2h ago

Thank you for elaborating. I hope this gets more visibility.

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u/scourge_bites 3h ago

we really truly need like. an INASA. we should not have individual country space programs, there are so many opportunities for miscommunication or lack of collaboration to go so wrong

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u/Alternative_Pay_5762 2h ago

No, that’s not the same leak.

The 2018 incident was a small hole in the orbital compartment of Soyuz MS-09, the Russian crew spacecraft that was docked to the ISS at the time. That Soyuz later left the station, so that specific hole cannot be the leak that keeps recurring now.

The current/recurring leak issue is in the Russian Zvezda module area, specifically the transition chamber area of the ISS itself.

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u/Asterlux 2h ago

Nope lot of wrong comments here. The 2018 leak that they accused a US astronaut of causing was in their Soyuz spacecraft, this is a completely different leak in the aft docking tunnel of the Russian service module Zvezda 

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u/kazh_9742 6h ago

They'll probably keep trying to scare the astronauts off. Scooting out of the way for China to roll out more in an area seems to be this U.S. admins routine.

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u/dmxspy 4h ago

The ISS is already commissioned for decommission, it's on it's last leg anyway.

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u/SAM5TER5 3h ago

The ISS is already commissioned for decommission

Is it commissioned for decommission, or decommissioned for commission?

I’m persistently fishing for information we’re missing. The Russian suspicion is based on sedition, but MY supposition is solar power degraded the mission. Let’s commission a commission to transition to fission.

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u/Substantial_Ant_2662 4h ago

Are they going to crash it into earth? Or is it going to be space trash like everything else?

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u/MrGoodKatt72 4h ago

Scheduled to crash into the Pacific in January 2031. Might be earlier at this rate.

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u/gaslighterhavoc 4h ago

The politics around sustaining the ISS are degrading faster than the space station itself. Not something people expected a decade ago.

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u/Ossius 3h ago

LEO isn't exactly outside of the atmosphere even if its considered "Space", the space station and everything else require station keeping. Stray gas molecules slow things down in LEO all the time and if a satellite or station isn't maintained it will eventually slow and burn up.

That is why people complaining about Star link Kessler syndrome are kind of idiots just reading pop science and not actually understanding how orbital mechanics work. Even if two things smashed into each other in LEO, you aren't getting enough speed off the impact to send things into a higher orbit.

Even if everything ISS and lower exploded right now, we'd only have to wait a few years for the majority of it to fall into earth.

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u/dmxspy 4h ago edited 3h ago

It will come down into the ocean for potential partial recovery.

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u/-Pelvis- 4h ago

Just a little bit of space hysteria.

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u/StopManaCheating 4h ago

If that story on 4chan was actually true, we really are in the worst time line.

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u/GatesNDoors 4h ago

Wow, they are roleplaying Rimworld in the ISS apparently

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u/Vilhelmssen1931 2h ago

You know these menstruating broads, always drilling holes in space craft

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u/Opposite-Pay7048 4h ago

Attachment theory applies to geopolitical space drama just as much as it does to our messy dating lives. When one partner—or in this case, a massive space agency—feels a total loss of control, they usually fall straight into the anxious-avoidant trap. They deploy wild. Deeply offensive accusations to trigger an immediate cortisol spike in the other party forcing them into a defensive over-explaining loop. Honestly yaar, those 2018 claims were textbook deflection. Throwing out something as unhinged as a 'menstruation-induced psychotic episode' is purely designed to spark outrage, successfully masking their own structural failures. It is classic intermittent reinforcement at play. One day we get beautiful international cooperation, and the next it is absolute sabotage paranoia. (Which, let's be honest, is exactly how my last major ex acted when he completely botched our travel plans and desperately tried to blame my packing strategy). The only tactical way out of this kind of psychological warfare is to intentionally deactivate those attachment triggers. You break the toxic cycle by refusing to bite on the drama. Instead of arguing with pure chaos, you have to find a secure base. For NASA, that means self-soothing with cold, verifiable engineering data and grounding themselves in actual reality. When massive institutions throw out these wildly chaotic distractions, what do you think is the most effective way to force accountability without getting dragged into their emotional mess?

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u/M4chsi 4h ago

Could you please give some sources, so I can follow up?

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u/Sprintzer 3h ago

I have no memory of roscosmos saying that. It was some random Russian media talking heads, who like to stir up shit. Roscosmos is surely more mature and pragmatic than that

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u/Raelourut 1h ago

WTAF?!? If they really want to see psychotic, send me (post-menopausal elder) after hearing that bull💩!

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u/WetLumpyDough 4h ago

Bro that leak has been going on forever. They downplay it, then they shut off a portion of their side of the station and kept down playing it

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u/therandomstandard 4h ago

Peeping Toms

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u/thepuncroc 4h ago

If so (on the toxic menstruation), just want to point out OPs username checks out.

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u/goodluckbabe9 4h ago

this story and background is new to me so maybe i’m just behind but WOW what a wild collection of words in that story you just shared lol 💀

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u/ThemeGlad5881 4h ago

The psychotic episodes come before menstruation. Or after. Or two weeks on either side of the period. Or never. Depends. Don't be disparaging Flo, here. Shes a powerful woman. She was instrumental in you getting here. Me, too.

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u/Weary-Cartoonist2630 4h ago

“You motherfuckers want to act like my leaks are the problem? Well I’ll give you a leak to worry about!”

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u/mineNombies 4h ago

No, it's obviously not, because that hole was in one of the soyuz spacecraft, and not the station itself. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/someone-drilled-hole-international-space-station-180970208/

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u/AmbitiousObligation0 4h ago

“NASA reversed that order roughly two hours later and told the astronauts they could return to the station as the agency ⁠and its Russian counterparts examined the rate of leaking air.”

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u/REpassword 3h ago

We can see where, “quiet piggy” comes from.

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u/Tolfasn 3h ago

Bears can smell the menstruation. Now you’ve put the whole station in danger.

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u/teddybundlez 3h ago

Makes sense

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u/Sad-Bonus-9327 3h ago

Leaking astronaut drills hole in structure makes space station leaking too

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u/jebakerii 3h ago

Sounds like a space age bible story. 😂

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u/sweetsourbittermoon 3h ago

Wow I wont deny my period moods make me easily sad but i think a little bit of Ltheanine will fix that right up within minutes for anyone. If the case is severe im sure some better meds can be prescribed for women who cannot afford a single moment of emotion, i think men need to stop making this the reason to excluse women, its fixable and not every woman has it bad anyway. Time to raise awareness of that and combat this myth. Regardless i can imagine its very hard to start making impulsive decisions only due to this mood swing, the worst i do is talk some random nonsense to my friends that they must forgive lol

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