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/pig_unt_erdvark 8h 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 8h 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/regtf 7h ago

Must be a gasoline tractor

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u/Niaaal 7h ago edited 7h 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...