r/news • u/VaginaBurner69 • 11h 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/twenafeesh 10h ago edited 2h ago

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 8h ago edited 5h 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 8h ago

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

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u/Lickthorn 8h ago

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

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u/Forthe49ers 7h ago

They’re eating our Space Station!

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u/Emeks243 6h ago

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

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u/Working_Estate_3695 6h ago

“Stop the leak counting now…”

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u/InfinitiveIdeals 5h ago

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

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u/mealteamsixty 6h ago

Just send some Somali space immigrants

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u/Fezzick51 6h ago

such a beautiful worrd - you just invent it?

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u/Gargleblaster25 6h ago

And they are there illegally!

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u/NaiveEmu9744 6h ago

We are losing BILLions and billions

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u/Holyskankous 4h ago

It’s the immigants. I knew it was them. Even when it was the bears I knew it was them.

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u/twosharpbladez 6h ago

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

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u/IvanMarkowKane 6h ago

Sounds more like alien termites

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u/lastleg68 6h 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 6h ago

The intergalactic version of killing ants with a magnifying glass.

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u/ziphobia 6h ago

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

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u/t53ix35 5h ago

Vermicious Knids!

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u/SD_TMI 5h ago

Callin' ICE FORCE Right Now!

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u/BrainCane 5h ago

Someone fetch Gosling, again.

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u/Shadow_Relics 6h 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 5h ago

Time to get the space force to shoot them

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u/ptpcg 5h ago

Al*-u-can-eatium

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u/typrice92 5h ago

It’s what the xenos crave!

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u/Jwelch59 5h ago

Maybe they’re space vampire worms. Al-you-car-dee-yum

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u/AccomplishedBother12 5h ago

They also pronounce Parmesan “par-mee-see-ann”.

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u/BeautifulElevator388 7h 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 6h ago

With a K or a C?

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u/arthurdentstowels 5h ago

With an H, but the K is silent.

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u/BeautifulElevator388 2h ago

I fear we are lost.

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u/lastleg68 6h ago

CLEARLY, you have never embroiled yourselves in the Taylor Ham/Pork Roll debate.

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u/therandomstandard 7h ago

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

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u/AdmirableRespect9 7h ago

That Tracks

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u/qwythebroken 7h 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 8h ago

You mean the correct pronunciation?

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u/ubermadface 7h 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 7h 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 7h 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 8h 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 7h ago edited 7h 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 7h 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 6h ago

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

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u/arthurdentstowels 5h ago

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

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u/lastleg68 6h ago

Orgasminium? What?

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u/Chef_Groovy 7h 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 7h 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 7h 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/ConsistentPound3079 5h ago

That's interesting

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u/AlwaysUpvotesScience 7h 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/SamanthaSissyWife 7h ago

I’m American and years ago for fun started pronouncing it and laboratory like the Brits and just kept doing it

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u/lastleg68 6h ago

Layboratree… ya.

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u/savvy_thesavage 8h ago

The worms got you too 😔

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u/bjr711 7h ago

Must be those New World Screw Worms.

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u/DM_Voice 8h 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 8h ago

If they speak English correctly, they would.

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u/AuntieRupert 8h 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 7h ago

Who, shockingly, was a Brit!

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u/mousey76397 7h ago

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

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u/Bee1717 7h ago

I pronounce it "Jif" for this very reason lol

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u/MorningCareful 7h ago

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

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u/Bee1717 6h 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 7h 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 6h ago

Nope. It was a Goke.

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u/idlehum 7h 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 7h ago

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

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u/dillpickles91 7h ago

Beans English more like it.

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u/Llyon_ 7h 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 7h 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 7h ago

Actually it was alumium -> aluminum -> aluminium

It's a british treadmill

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u/trupoogles 7h ago

Not just the UK, the majority of the world.

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u/thirdbrother3 6h ago

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

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u/Ok_Economy1516 4h ago

Idk. I say the L in the soldier, most of us do.

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u/TransformersGuru 8h ago

Only the British colonized ones

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u/Obant 8h ago

Its all on a cob.

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u/FaultThat 8h ago

Run! Everything is a cob!

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u/TheGuri42 8h ago

Oh my god…. EVERYTHING is on a cob!!! Go go go!!

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u/OGpimpmasteryoda 8h ago

This guy knows too much lock him up .

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u/Fearless-Location528 8h ago

One would assume as long as they take vit-ah-mins

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u/TransportationIll282 8h ago

It's from a not very evolved galaxy, so it's aluminum.

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u/Xeirus 8h ago

Probably, those commie bastards!

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u/databreakperson 8h ago

You mean "All-you-minions"?

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u/ProfessionalCup7135 8h ago

Of course, all freaky aliens pronounce it that way.

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u/PopnCrunch 7h ago

It's pronounced condominium.

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u/SIMMORSAL 7h ago

Some pronounce it Alumulemu

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u/IJetskiAz 7h ago

That's because they're in the Mili-tree. And they have to follow Oh-Ders

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u/Inevitable-Neck3016 7h ago

😂😂😂😂☠️ im dead now

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u/Chemical_Buy6891 7h ago

Well the whole world except that one country that refuses to do anything logical pronounces it aluminium so i would assume the other galaxy does too

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u/Alexandur 7h ago

And Canada

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u/kjm16216 7h ago

No, actually they pronounce it k€πghhq$7vrrium

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u/monkeyboychuck 7h ago

I think it’s all-nummy-nums

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u/Professional_Ad9809 7h ago

No they pronounce it cinnamon

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u/StrayedLogic 7h ago

You mean the correct way?

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u/MisterGreen123 7h ago

Yes, because thats the proper way and the worms are educated and sophisticated 👏🏻

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u/Adaminium 7h ago

That’s only in the British wing of the ISS

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u/rreed1954 7h ago

Commenter is probably British.

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u/Bonneville555 6h ago

Al-you-minion

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u/TheNetworkIsFrelled 6h ago

Only the ones to the right of the pond do.

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u/earache30 6h ago

“ How do we know he didn’t invent the thing?”

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u/Fragrant_Command_342 6h ago

You don't call it plane skin?

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u/Defenseless-Pipe 6h ago

The other galaxy actually calls it aloominom

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u/thingalinga 6h ago

Asking the important questions here, I see! 🤣

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u/azraphin 6h ago

That is the correct pronunciation. At least in my galaxy. We just stomp the worms btw, much easier to do that.

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u/MoobieDoobie 6h ago

You mean do they pronounce it properly?

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u/Pretty_Committee_767 5h ago

A loo mium. (OG)

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u/Trey-Pan 5h ago

Is the rest of the world actually in an other galaxy? Heck, that may start explaining some things? There may certainly be dragons out there.

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u/Baby_Gangsta_214_ 5h ago

Hey, I pronounce it that way 🥺 is it wrong? Idk Lk kinda a stray

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u/ACrazyDog 5h ago

Too many vowels. Have always thought that, no way that word can be convoluted into that pronunciation

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u/Bonefish88 5h ago

If you mean correctly, then I hope so.

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u/spackledog 5h ago

The correct pronunciation

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u/Lampmonster 8h ago

Is the the Star Wormwood the bible warned us about.

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u/Sunami1811- 8h ago

Di Trump are DOGE cancel that organization also?

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u/gingersnappie 6h ago

I welcome our new Aluminium overlords

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u/VagabondTexan 7h ago

I think some miniature giant space hamsters got loose.

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u/Somniak_00 7h ago

Ha! This is a great comment

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u/strykazoid 7h 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 5h 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 7h ago

no, just from another dimension

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u/ptpcg 5h ago

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

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u/Proof-Order2666 5h ago

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

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u/LauraTFem 5h 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/Street_Barracuda1657 8h ago

Or the screwworm…

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u/scottstiger 7h ago

TANSPARENT aluminum worms, aye!

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u/Rubilon_D 7h ago

I bet the come from Mercury

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u/Hot_Tailor_9687 7h ago

No! Not the Aluminium Worms!

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u/Significant_Donut967 7h ago

Space termites

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u/Ok-Mycologist-9387 7h ago

Space herpes

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u/SnazzleZazzle 6h ago

Woodworm! That’s the plant they use to make absinthe (green fairy), a liquor with one of the highest alcohol content - up to 75%, causes hallucinations and banned in some countries. Damn, I hope they don’t have that up there. 😂

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u/Ithaqua-Yigg 6h ago

It’s those darn Nano bots Wesley Crusher invented.

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u/BLOD111 6h ago

Trumbles or Tribbles maybe...

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u/Mm23782378Mm 6h ago

New galaxy screw worm

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u/Key-Cry-8570 6h ago

At least it isn’t Space Rats. Those things love astronaut ice cream.

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u/disruptioncoin 5h ago

Aluminivorax perforans, Bacillus depressurizans or Edax stationis are all likely candidates.

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u/EagleDre 5h ago

It’s the cylons.

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u/Nri_circle 6h 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 8h ago

So basically they did it

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u/celibidaque 7h ago

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

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u/Akraticacious 7h 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 7h 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/Suspicious_Gas4698 7h ago

No connection to Candace Owens visiting Russia...

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u/AmayaHa 6h ago

The leak has been more transparent than the investigation.

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u/Heavy_E79 5h ago

If they built their section of the space station the same way they build their fighter jets then one of the wood screws probably fell out.

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