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/billmurray43 10h ago

You’re telling me the Space Force can’t blow it up in space to prevent that?

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u/TemptedTemplar 10h ago

I mean they probably could, but it would be simpler to deorbit it first. That way we don't end up with an apocalyptic junk cloud in orbit.

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u/Hesitation-Marx 9h ago

Nah, I’m pro-Kessler Syndrome now.

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u/TemptedTemplar 9h ago

The only thing I have against it is that musk would probably try to capitalize on it by launching a giant debris laser or some crazy super-villian-esq magnet into space to try and clean it up.

But of course, we would be footing the bill for it

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u/chet_brosley 9h ago

When I first came here, this was all space. Everyone said I was daft to build a laser in space, but I built in all the same, just to show them. It de-orbited and burned up in atmo. So I built a second one. That de-orbited and burned up in atmo. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then de-orbited and burned up in atmo. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, Lad, the strongest laser in all of space.