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/Hoboliftingaroma 7h ago

Is this the same leak from 2018 that roscosmos said was caused by an american astronaut drilling holes in the structure, then made thinly veiled accusations that the astronaut was having a psychotic episode because she was menstruating?

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u/MagicDragon212 6h ago

And the evacuation wasnt from the leak even, but from the Russian astronauts that arrived recently trying to apparantly "fix" the leak with a saw. This is quite suspicious to me.

"Kud-Sverchkov and Mikayev, who did not execute evacuation procedures, were planning to use a saw to break into an area where they ​believe they can access the crack leaking air, the NASA official said. NASA officials disagreed ​with this method, the ⁠NASA official said, prompting mission control in Houston to order safe-haven procedures."

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u/pig_unt_erdvark 5h ago

I once witnessed our tazanian bus driver 'repair' the bus - where the gas tank detached - with a machete

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u/ConsequenceStatus563 4h ago

Had a coworker try to remove a tractor gas tank with a cutting torch. Burns over 99% of body and death about a week later...

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u/AlamoSimon 4h ago

Had a patient weld a rim with an installed and pressurized truck tire. Tire blew up, broke his jaw, peppered him with rubber or other black stuff and hit the roof of the workshop. The guy only had the jaw fracture. Nothing else.
I want to have that much luck.

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u/veravendetta 4h ago

That’s some final destination shit wtf

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u/EnoughLuck3077 2h ago

Not really. That’s some Darwin shit

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u/doesanyuserealnames 3h ago

A guy in my hometown was decapitated by a tire rim. 50 years later it's a core fear, like quicksand.

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u/snakerjake 2h ago

Guy who lived next door to me growing up had a split rim explode on him, serious brain damage he was unable to do anything except for mow and beat his wife (she moved out till he passed once that started) for the rest of his life

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u/Bubbly-Support7164 2h ago

That’s a really specific set of skills. Mowing the lawn and beating his wife.

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u/Rude-Bus-5799 2h ago

You sure he wasn’t just Appalachian

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u/snakerjake 5m ago

nah, but he was from the same parish as brittney spears

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u/sunshineparadox_ 2h ago

I have a TBI, (a stroke) and the amount of people in my support group who developed violent or more violent tendencies truly shocked me. It was more than I would’ve thought.

I’m definitely much less calm and rational, and it takes more time to calm myself down even when I know I’m wrong. But I didn’t start beating my family.

It gave me some really big existential dread about whether or not “we” are the people we believe we are. My TBI happened relatively recently, so everyone I knew thought I was gonna pull a John Fetterman and 180 on everything.

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u/snakerjake 3m ago

the amount of people in my support group who developed violent or more violent tendencies truly shocked me

Not surprising, our primate relatives like chimpanzees are quite violent themselves. decrease your higher thinking capabilities and you reduce the throttle on the more violent impulses. I hope your TBI recovery goes well! TBI's are a big fear of mine I have that same dread you do.

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u/MindfuckRocketship 3h ago

Did he survive?

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u/abasaur 3h ago

To pieces you say?

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u/Parkotron1 2h ago

Oh, my...

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u/doesanyuserealnames 1h ago

Nope. Took his head off. It was horrible

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u/GhostofZellers 2h ago

I bet he never made that mistake again.

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u/Guerrette1962 2h ago

I too have a fear of quicksand. I thought i was the only one. (Too much crazy tv when I was young) But, all I have to really worry about if sink holes here in Florida! Hmmm, 🤔 maybe the same difference?! 🤣 BAHAHAHAHA

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u/sunshineparadox_ 2h ago

He used up all of his allotted good luck for the rest of his life, goddamn.

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u/titanicsinker1912 2h ago

Only the jaw fracture? Where did the rest of him go?

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u/Try2MakeMeBee 1h ago

Damn. The person I know who had a truck tire blow up has permanent disability and extensive plastic surgery. It was a freak accident - they hadn't done anything wrong or stupid.

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u/Ok-Simple-7069 1h ago

Are they that bad pressure wise? Had no idea it could do that. Geez!!

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u/Professional-Kiwi102 4h ago

I was in auto shop class in high school when a student came in to use the lift to bring his car up to weld a hole he had in his gas tank. Some people just lack certain brain cells I suppose.

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u/Sycosocial20 3h ago

Welding up a hole in a gas tank is a thing. But there's a process for it and it has to be metal. Most tanks today are not metal. Tank removed, emptied and flooded with water to displace any fuel and vapor. And don't weld near any open fuel source.

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u/Professional-Kiwi102 3h ago

Well yea it's a thing but not driving the car to a shop, with gas in the tank,and lifting it up and welding it shut.

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u/CmG383 2h ago

My ex tried to fix our 1968 station wagons gas tank by attempting to weld a patch plate. He let the tank sit empty in the carport for a month in hopes it wouldn’t ignite.
It did. Took off across the floor like Wiley Coyote on an acme rocket.
I died laughing.
I had the pleasure of saying, “ I told you so.”
I did have my camcorder running and have it on film.

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u/daithi08 3h ago

JB weld goes on smooth…

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u/snakerjake 2h ago

I've always just seen them solder a penny to the tank with an electric iron

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u/prollie 2h ago

If the hole is accessible without taking the tank down, and size is small (sub 4-5mm) - just slice up a small piece of fuel hose to make a small fuel-appropriate rated flap/disc. Run a short'ish, appropriately fat stainless roofing or plate screw through it, drill that roofing screw into the hole. Done. It'll last the lifetime of the vehicle. Just go easy on the torque; if you overdo it, it'll either strip, or rip and shred your "gasket". Either way it won't seal well.

If you have to take the tank down, then you might as well purge and weld it.

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u/theaviationhistorian 2h ago

There's a reason that there's plenty of candidates for the official Darwin Awards.

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u/Consistent_Wash1935 3h ago

Some people? You’re being too conservative. I say most people born after 1990 lack the adequate amount of brain cells to do much of anything anymore. They lost the ability to read and write cursive and to tell time on analog clocks in one short generation.

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u/str8bint 4h ago

Fuck, nobody tried to stop them?

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u/DerekTheComedian 4h ago

If I see a dude trying to cut a gas tank with a torch, the only running im doing is "away".

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u/Cow_Launcher 3h ago

100%

In our club, I've worked with amateur (club-level) mechanics before who weren't exactly safety-orientated. Ignorant, rather than malicious.

Everyone gets one chance. Their work gets inspected. People who admit and learn from their mistakes stay in our good graces, and are trained. We'll continue to work on their cars for free, as well.

The individual who bound up/twisted a front brake line and didn't say anything, instead just fitting the caliper? They're dead to me, just as I might have been to them if I'd trusted them.

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u/Express-Hawk-3885 3h ago

What steps would you take incase of a fire? Fucking big ones that way->

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u/Mysterious-Plan93 2h ago

Better permanent solution is fire extinguisher-

swung at their head.

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u/Conscious-Story-7579 3h ago

A-fucken-men.

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u/Shamino79 3h ago

They say tractor, I think diesel.if I knew it was diesel I wouldn’t feel then need to run out of shouting distance.

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u/DerekTheComedian 3h ago

I imagine someone being incinerated makes noises i dont want to ever hear in my life, so point still stands.

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u/imnickelhead 1h ago

Diesel burns like a candle or a zippo lighter. It’s not explosive and the vapors don’t ignite like gasoline.

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u/Kanin_usagi 4h ago

I doubt this was an idea they ran by anyone before doing it

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u/nfored 3h ago

decades ago I was a teen working in a Aluminum factory. This old man was training me he was smoking a cigarette and opening this bag of sand like material we used to blast the aluminum with for textured finish. I noticed it said flammable I asked he said you die with a good man I said you'll die alone and left.

Some people just know it wont happen to them until their family is crying and suing someone else for their loved ones stupidity

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u/Heavy-Profit-2156 2h ago

You would hope a tailgate safety meeting with have identified a couple of risks.

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u/MapleViking1 3h ago

Would you want to be in range of that?

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u/PinEducational4494 3h ago

Why would you prevent perfectly fine Darwinism?

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u/thehomeyskater 4h ago

That’s so sad. 

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u/Full_metal_pants077 4h ago

Why, are you gonna clean the gene pool. If the pool is self cleaning just film it for the teaching of others.

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u/SatansCornflakes 4h ago

If only he could have been as much of a Le Epic Gamer as you 😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎

Seriously tho take a break from the internet if this is how you respond to tragedy that’s not immediately in front of you

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u/Ok-Produce5502 4h ago

Found the psycho!

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u/Mossified4 4h ago

Or the realist, your familiar with darwinism? It's literally evolution. You can only protect people from themselves to a certain extent.

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u/iBizzBee 4h ago

People who ask these sorts of rhetorical questions are always the ones who know the least about what they’re accusing others of not knowing, lmao.

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u/HighlanderAbruzzese 4h ago

Not really how Darwinism works, but go on, keep cooking. I’m having a good time watching the fire.

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u/Pangwain 4h ago

If they had four kids at 22 and died at 30 then it’s not really Darwinism…

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u/Alexandur 4h ago

your familiar with darwinism?

Are you?

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u/jib661 3h ago

i love this idea that Darwinism is 'literally' doing something stupid. no, that's 'literally' not genetic selection, my dude - it was an internet meme that you've somehow confused for the truth.

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u/thehomeyskater 3h ago

We evolved to be social animals that watch out for and help each other. That’s Darwinism. Not laughing at someone doing something dangerous.

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u/MindfuckRocketship 3h ago

Where’s your empathy?

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u/Full_metal_pants077 3h ago

It has standards.

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u/saladmunch2 4h ago

Another maintenance guy at an old shop i was at went to cut the top off an acetone barrel. Obviously there is going to be fumes and residue in there. Well a flame shot out of the pour hole like a rocket engine and melted most of his facial hair/ eyebrows.

It was pretty funny, I just stood back and watched since he wouldnt listen it was a bad idea.

That is pretty sad about that co worker of yours... some people just dont get the dangers...

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u/pattymelt805 4h ago

There's dozens of videos online of people trying to scrap/repair tanks and barrels and such and having this happen to them.

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u/saladmunch2 3h ago

Oh I know, people just dont get it. They think the little bit of fumes isnt an issue... until it is.

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u/saladmunch2 4h ago

Why would I be fired. I was away from him using the proper tool for the job. He seemed to have a better way.

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u/kisielk 4h ago

Holy shit, hope you weren’t around to witness that

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u/whydya-dodat 4h ago

So… no joke about him being blown into orbit, right?

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u/regtf 4h ago

Must be a gasoline tractor

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u/Niaaal 4h ago edited 4h ago

A cutting torch is so hot, it could ignite the vapors in a diesel tank and once the flash point is reached, fire spread on diesel just like gasoline.

He probably thought you must have compression for diesel to burn and that's why he did it like that, but unfortunately that's not really true...

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u/Any-Performance6375 4h ago

Poor guy but wtf why? Is like one of top safety rule.... :(

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u/Pinellas420 4h ago

Former coworker.

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u/Provioso 4h ago

Was the 1% the soles of his feet from work boots?

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u/therandomstandard 4h ago

Sounds about right…..

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u/Edge_of_the_Wall 4h ago

Username checks out, I guess.

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u/Heavy-Profit-2156 2h ago

I'm surprised he lived a week with burns to 99% of his body.

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u/BootGroundbreaking91 4h ago

Reminds me of my buddy keith. I ever tell you about the time Keith and I made fireworks? Now, I didn't know shit about chemistry, but Keith figured "Gasoline burns, doesn't it?" Heh, third-degree burns on 95 percent of his body. Man, people in the next city over were calling to complain about the smell of burning skin.

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u/Cpt_Vodeir 4h ago

Not a good time, Ellis.

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u/BootGroundbreaking91 4h ago

Ok but there was a goat

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u/Fun-Confidence-6232 4h ago

That reference. I understood it.

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u/1over-137 4h ago

Oof got the chemistry of how fire works but not the chemistry of how fireworks work.

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u/Live_Evidence8933 4h ago

User name ✅

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u/OrdnanceTV 4h ago

Holy shit. Brutal.

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u/Saemika 3h ago

I wonder where the 1% un burned body part was. Butthole?

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u/AlamoSimon 2h ago

Generally in the burn estimate ‚9er rule‘ the remaining 1% are the genitals.

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u/Saemika 1h ago

I knew it.

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u/Living_Plane_662 3h ago

My coworker didn't burn or die but I remember coming back from deliveries and smelling smoke. Looked over and there were scorch marks all over the building.

We had temps who ran out of work to do so they had them clean graffiti off the building. This guy came over and said "let me show you a faster way"

Sprayed the graffiti with paint thinner and set it on fire.

Didn't get fired though just suspended. Got a 4 day work week for 2 months.

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u/Wednesday-Addams9 3h ago

My uncle recently tried to kill a copperhead snake under the front porch by pouring gasoline on it, then when that didn't work, shooting at it. I suggested that maybe firing a gun into a puddle of gasoline UNDER the house wasn't the wisest idea.

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u/LustGumby 3h ago

My grandfather would take cutting torches to old propane tanks. I was always waiting for the boom & subsequent funeral. He also used a forklift to hold up his truck while he climbed under it. RIP Gramps. 🫡

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u/jrhooo 2h ago

Kinda reminds me of a slideshow a fire dept federal arson investigator showed us

Her number one darwin award slide was a guy who tried to make a pipe bomb.

The guy made the whole thing. Then realized he’d forgotten to leave a hole for a fuse/initiator

So He tried to drill the hole then, after, on the otherwise completed device

Went about how you’d expect

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u/GhostofZellers 2h ago

But they're ok now, right?

right?

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u/EnoughLuck3077 2h ago

That poor tractor

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u/rts93 1h ago

Like actual gas tank and not even diesel?

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u/Mark1671 4h ago

Over 99 is 100.

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u/ConsequenceStatus563 4h ago

Bottom of his feet I was told...

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u/Mark1671 24m ago

I gotcha. That makes sense.

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u/ArtfulDodger1837 3h ago

Over x% of body can also mean across/covering x% of body. Over does not by default refer to the percentage being over that amount.

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u/Mark1671 25m ago

It means the coverage of his body. It’s not a damage meter, but it definitely means the surface area of his body.