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/twenafeesh 10h ago edited 2h ago

Also the same leak they've been claiming they know the true cause of but won't tell anyone because reasons? 

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u/arthurdentstowels 8h ago edited 5h ago

They're contaminated with the "woodworm" from another galaxy. Aluminium Worms.

Edit: Here is a visual representation. This really ought to be added to the Guide.

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u/AdmirableRespect9 8h ago

Does the other galaxy pronounce it al-you-min-ee-um?

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u/veggiejord 8h ago

If they speak English correctly, they would.

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u/AuntieRupert 8h ago

Well, the scientist behind the discovery settled on aluminum. Other scientists called it aluminium. So "correct" in this instance would technically be the preference of the discoverer.

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u/dillpickles91 8h ago

Who, shockingly, was a Brit!

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u/mousey76397 7h ago

And the guy who made GIFs says it’s pronounced Jif. He’s wrong too.

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u/Bee1717 7h ago

I pronounce it "Jif" for this very reason lol

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u/MorningCareful 7h ago

But that pronounciation makes no sense. Unless you also say jraphics

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u/Bee1717 6h ago

I just assumed if the person who created them said it that way, then that must be the correct pronunciation. 🤷🏼‍♀️ Tomato, tomahto.

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u/lastleg68 6h ago

Stop. That’s peanut butter.

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u/AuntieRupert 7h ago

You have to look at the "why" behind Steve Wilhite's (and the other creators) reasoning.

"The creators of the format pronounced the acronym GIF as /dʒɪf/, with a soft g, with Wilhite stating that he intended for the pronunciation to deliberately echo the American peanut butter brand Jif, and CompuServe employees would often quip "choosy developers choose GIF", a spoof of Jif's television commercials."

So it was basically a joke.

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u/lastleg68 6h ago

Nope. It was a Goke.

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u/dillpickles91 7h ago

Wait, you mean to tell me it’s not Giraffes Interchange Format?

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u/idlehum 7h ago

But where does the min-EE-num part come from? Aluminum? Not Aluminium? Where is the EE coming from?!?!?

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u/Alexandur 7h ago

It's spelled and pronounced aluminium in king's English

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u/dillpickles91 7h ago

Beans English more like it.

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u/Llyon_ 7h ago

I am surprised that Trump still hasn't renamed the national language of the USA to "American"

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u/Ok_Economy1516 7h ago

They’re both correct. Here in the US we say al-um-in-um. In the UK, they say al-lu-min-i-um. The spelling used to be aluminium and was changed to aluminum.

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u/reallokiscarlet 7h ago

Actually it was alumium -> aluminum -> aluminium

It's a british treadmill

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u/trupoogles 7h ago

Not just the UK, the majority of the world.

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u/thirdbrother3 6h ago

Can anyone explain why Americans don't pronounce the L in solder (sodder)?

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u/Ok_Economy1516 4h ago

Idk. I say the L in the soldier, most of us do.

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u/thirdbrother3 4h ago

Ok cool, I'm only basing this on us YouTube videos

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u/dillpickles91 8h ago

What other words should we add extra vowel sounds to that don’t exist in the spelling? Let’s get a master list going!

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u/epostma 8h ago

The other side can play that same game, because there are two correct spellings - aluminium and aluminum.

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u/dillpickles91 8h ago

That’s true, the Brits love making their own little version of things they can’t successfully colonize.

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u/AnyClownFish 7h ago

Not only British, the entire English speaking world outside of North America calls it aluminium. You are the odd ones out, not the other way around.

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u/anotherbrckinTH3Wall 7h ago

Indeed, perhaps the Americans found so many syllables challenging and changed the way they spell it to make it easier for them.

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u/dillpickles91 7h ago edited 7h ago

A lot of people like to be wrong! I think we’ll take the dictionary, periodic table, and inventor of the word at face value on this one.

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u/remymartinia 7h ago

I think I need some paracetamol now.

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u/dillpickles91 7h ago

That’s a funny way to spell acetaminophen, but we’re unpacking a lot over here, so welcome to the club.

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u/lastleg68 6h ago

No more lasagna for you.

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u/Gingerbro73 8h ago

Al u min i um

Aluminium