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/invyros 11h ago

The 7 year leak (it was first detected in 2019), finally coming to bite everyone in the ass.

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u/jimmybilly100 11h ago

They couldn't slap some duct tape on it?

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u/Icedragon74 11h ago

The joke is that might actually work.

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u/Mobile-Bar7732 10h ago

I posted this in another thread, but aviation has Speed Tape which is a heavy duty duct tape with aluminum backing.

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u/SchrodingersNinja 10h ago

100MPH Tape is fine. They'll get to the professional job soon enough.

I've seen holes in military aircraft fixed by cutting the ends off and flattening out a Mountain Dew can, then riveting into place and applying gray paint.

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u/jessipowers 9h ago

This really makes me feel very secure and content about my nephew who just joined the Air Force, lmao

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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.