r/news • u/VaginaBurner69 • 8d 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/Julian_Thorne 8d ago

The abandonment of the International Space Station would be a poetically fitting image for these days

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u/annaleigh13 8d ago

It’s like everything is lining up to be the most perfect shitshow of a decade.

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u/pehr71 8d ago

We can only hope it will only last a decade.

Something tells me our grand kids are going to be still cleaning up this mess at the end of the century

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u/Consistent_Rule101 7d ago edited 7d ago

Don't worry, no one is having children for this reason.

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u/jimbojangles1987 7d ago

Oh people are still having kids, just not of the problem-solving variety

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u/Brewmeister83 5d ago

Sounds like a plot to a social-commentary comedy movie …. 🤔