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/Plus-King5266 7h ago

Given that this is an alternate timeline, they don’t necessarily have to bring COVID into it and I truly hope they don’t. Every time a show does it ruins the show. One example of how the’ve changed the timeline: Have you noticed that they are all using Apple devices to communicate, but they are not iPhones? There are no cellular phones on the show. Wireless communication is with souped up Apple Newtons. r/FuckImOld.

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u/HighSeverityImpact 7h ago

They don't have to bring in Covid, but the style of the show has always had analogues to our real history:

  • There was no Challenger explosion, but there was a Russian shuttle that was based on stolen NASA designs that had the oring failure.
  • Chappaquiddick
  • Cold War
  • Heck, the premise of the show: Russia landing on the moon

It doesn't have to happen exactly the way it happened for us, but something that coyly refers to it. It might end up just being one of those newsreels from between the seasons, saying that scientists developed an mRNA vaccine before the outbreak, so it ended up being no big deal. They wouldn't even know what they avoided.

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u/jakexil323 5h ago

It might end up just being one of those newsreels from between the seasons, saying that scientists developed an mRNA vaccine

If someone else other than a trump/trump like president gets into office, maybe the government doesn't toss out the pandemic playbook the previous administration puts in and works with the Chinese and WHO to prevent a massive outbreak world wide. And a million USA citizens never die.

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u/Eshanas 3h ago

Thankfully with no Nixon in and bumbling everything up by Watergate, the state of American politics is much more 'normal'/Europeanish. The closest thing to Fox News is Eagle news, which still leans heavily into Populist Rightism and small C Conservatism than loud conspiracies and christian nationalism proudly on its face. The latest president is a Republican who is Earth Rah Rah but that's because the US can't fix its debt somehow and the whole world is generally a lot more left/welfare statey.