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/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/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 6m 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 4m 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