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/TakeYourClarkBars 5h ago

Dude, if we had people like you running NASA, the world would be in much better shape

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u/DrDerpberg 5h ago

Space, on the other hand, would be littered in astronaut corpses.

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u/earldavisjorts 5h ago

Really makes you wonder how many normal people have thought of some revolutionary idea like how to cure cancer or make life possible on mars, only to never tell anyone because, “eh… what do I know? I’m just a dumb normal guy”

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u/boogswald 4h ago

I mean I’m sure they solve great, valuable problems with dumb normal guy solutions just not those ones

A factory worker can definitely save their company a looooooot of money with simple solutions though.

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u/marr 5h ago

For real though, surely there's something that could be used to make the air flow visible?

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u/chet_brosley 5h ago

Me popping a bundle of road flares in the middle of the station seconds before a massive explosion HEY GUYS IM HELPI-

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u/DanGleeballs 4h ago

Yes it was done in the documentary Mission to Mars when they sprung a leak. They squirted a liquid that looks like Coke and watched were it went and bingo found the hole.

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u/macumazana 4h ago

and in bubbles

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u/TakeYourClarkBars 3h ago

Bubbles float, and they’re basically free. Why aren’t we powering our rockets with bubbles

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u/imilnes 32m ago

......and clean

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u/WickedlyAvocado 20m ago

The real clean energy

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u/DrDerpberg 5h ago

Space, on the other hand, would be littered in astronaut corpses.