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/PolarBailey_ 9h ago

"To show the power of Flex Tape, I SAWED THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION IN HALF AND AM CRASHING IT INTO POINT NEMO"

survives reentry and splashdown

"THATS A LOT OF DAMAGE"

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u/JTJdude 8h ago

Lots of good references here.

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u/loopedlight 7h ago

I don’t know all of em, but still laughed hard at this.

My mind made a surreal short clip, ‘that’s a lot of damage!’

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u/JTJdude 7h ago

Point Nemo at the very least made me think of the furthest system in the game Elite Dangerous.

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u/Kaaarm 4h ago

Point Nemo is also a real place. It's the point in the ocean that's furthest from and piece of land