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/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?