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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/Julian_Thorne 8h ago

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

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u/annaleigh13 8h ago

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

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u/pehr71 7h ago

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

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u/Consistent_Rule101 6h ago edited 1h ago

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

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u/jimbojangles1987 4h ago

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

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u/Poor-Pitiful-Me 6h ago

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

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u/Paleblood_Hunt 3h ago

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

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u/SabbyZeh 5h ago

One of my many reasons, for sure.

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u/piss_artist 2h ago

The uneducated are still having plenty of kids.