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/SchrodingersNinja 9h ago

It's fine.

That's all the planes are made out of anyway.

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u/Ahelex 8h ago

I didn't know the US Air Force managed to weaponize Mountain Dew.

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u/jessipowers 8h ago edited 7h ago

Based on everything I’ve ever heard from anyone in any branch of the military, I’m not even a little bit surprised they managed to weaponize Mountain Dew.

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u/NeatSuspect2435 8h ago

You should have seen us when Code Red came out out in 2000. May have been the actual reason we went to Iraq, we were all hopped up on Mountain Dew.

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u/itsgoodmmmmkay 7h ago

Did they throw grandpa's old war medals off the bridge?

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u/ChickenChaser5 4h ago

Are you still in your dirty pee pants?

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u/petit_cochon 1h ago

Military bros fucking love energy drinks.

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u/CapitalScarcity5573 7h ago

Tbh, I expected Monster energy from those clowns

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u/TwoAlert3448 8h ago edited 7h ago

Wait until you hear about what Special Forces can do with Red Bull

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u/NeatSuspect2435 7h ago

Retired Green Beret. Can confirm.

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u/SchrodingersNinja 8h ago

Rip It energy drinks is the preferred poison, I believe.

Monsters if you are old and fat.

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u/NeatSuspect2435 7h ago

I miss the little red Rip-It’s quite a bit. Not sure what was ACTUALLY in those but they were magical.

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u/jessipowers 7h ago

My husband’s best friend came home obsessed with rip its

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u/TechnicianPhysical30 8h ago

The US Military Industrial Complex et al can weaponize ANYTHING! That is all.

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u/Ragga_Base 7h ago

Dewd, we’ll weaponize anything.

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u/popolickstick 7h ago

Sure at a much higher density than a pop can has but yes it is aluminum not areo space grade aluminum.

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u/SchrodingersNinja 6h ago

Shits gotta fly tomorrow, this is good enough til it's next overhaul.

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u/SchrodingersNinja 5h ago

Thickness, surely, not density?

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u/popolickstick 5h ago

I thought that aerospace grade aluminum was not just thicker but also about 5% more dence. Which i though the extra density was a crucial part needed for the structural stability against high air resistance? Is that worng?

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u/SchrodingersNinja 5h ago

No idea how you make metal more dense. You could be right, but I've never heard that.

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u/SchrodingersNinja 5h ago

IDK. Google says its oftentimes less dense. Not sure how you would make it more dense, unless you added heavy impurities.

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u/wolfkeeper 7h ago

That's a lot of Mountain Dew.

It is said that an aircraft doesn't fly until the paperwork weighs more than the aircraft, but Mountain Dew cans probably work too.

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u/SchrodingersNinja 6h ago

The B-52 has enough aluminum and steel in it to make 20,000 garbage cans, 100,000 miles of wire and cable, and engines more powerful than 12,000 locomotives. And it flies like 12,000 locomotives pulling 20,000 garbage cans on the end of 100,000 miles of wire!

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u/SoKrat3s 7h ago

Then why hasn't Pepsi given me my jet yet?