Russia Acknowledges Continuing Air Leak From Its Segment of Space Station (theguardian.com) 55
Russian space officials have acknowledged a continuing air leak from the Russian segment of the International Space Station, but said it poses no danger to its crew. From a report: The Roscosmos state corporation said that specialists were monitoring the leak and the crew "regularly conducts work to locate and fix possible spots of the leak." It said in a statement carried by Russian news agencies: "There is no threat to the crew or the station itself." Joel Montalbano, Nasa's station project manager, had noted on Wednesday that the leak in the Russian segment has increased but emphasised that it remained small and posed no threat to the crew's safety or vehicle operations.
As the space outpost is ageing, the crew has to spend more time to repair and maintain it, Roscosmos said. Russian space officials first reported a leak in the Zvezda module in August 2020 and later that year Russian crew members located what they believed was its source and tried to fix it. In November 2021, another potentially leaky spot was found in a different part of the Russian section of the station. Roscosmos and Nasa have said the leak posed no danger to the crew and did not affect operations on the station. There have been other glitches. In October, coolant leaked from an external backup radiator for Russia's new science lab, Nauka, although its main thermal control system was working normally and space officials said the crew and the station were not in danger.
As the space outpost is ageing, the crew has to spend more time to repair and maintain it, Roscosmos said. Russian space officials first reported a leak in the Zvezda module in August 2020 and later that year Russian crew members located what they believed was its source and tried to fix it. In November 2021, another potentially leaky spot was found in a different part of the Russian section of the station. Roscosmos and Nasa have said the leak posed no danger to the crew and did not affect operations on the station. There have been other glitches. In October, coolant leaked from an external backup radiator for Russia's new science lab, Nauka, although its main thermal control system was working normally and space officials said the crew and the station were not in danger.
FlexSeal? (Score:3, Funny)
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They sent up the Slap Chop instead.
Is the air dirty? They could try OxyClean!
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You joke, but it would be interesting to see them try it. Sadly anyrhing used to repair a leak will be exposed to conditions that may encourage off-gassing. Without extensive testing, there's no way to know how that stuff would behave in space.
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Damn I'm in my typo game lately. Anyrhing?
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It should be noted that Russian murders per capita are 6.8 and the United States is 6.4. That might as well be the same number. Almost 200 countries have a lower murder rate that us. But hey. We're #1.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
Lastly, illegal aliens kill far less people than US citizens (and commit less crimes). Facts are facts even when you don't like them. And the reason why is simple. They don't want to draw attention to themselves or their families.
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Fox News is the victim (Score:2)
Fox News is also the victim when all those Russian TV channels re-broadcast original Fox News content without payment to Rupert Murdoch and Sons. Those Russian channels re-broadcast Fox News content for free. /s
I don't think the Murdochs care as much about politics as they care about money and power. To them personally, they're above politics -- they have that much power and money.
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But everytime I tune into FOX news, they tell me that Immigrants are the cause of all of my problems. And they usually put a black face on the screen, and say that he robbed a liquor store, or killed someone.
My favorite Fox faux facts are they are lazy and never work yet each of them have three jobs taking all of them away from Americans. People believe both are simultaneously true.
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* for their narrow definition of good
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It should be noted that Russian murders per capita are 6.8 and the United States is 6.4. That might as well be the same number. Almost 200 countries have a lower murder rate that us. But hey. We're #1.
Lastly, illegal aliens kill far less people than US citizens (and commit less crimes). Facts are facts even when you don't like them. And the reason why is simple. They don't want to draw attention to themselves or their families.
Interesting the murder conviction rate per 100k is 2.4 for illegals vs 2.8 for natives yet you call 6.8 v 6.4 "might as well be the same number" while 2.4 vs 2.8 is "far less". Why is that? In both cases the difference in murders is the same 1328 people based on current US population.
So which is it? Is 1328 people irrelevant "might as well be the same number" or is 1328 people "far less"?
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Lastly, illegal aliens kill far less people than US citizens (and commit less crimes). Facts are facts even when you don't like them. And the reason why is simple. They don't want to draw attention to themselves or their families.
The basic problem with these claims is the arguments themselves are specious. The studies referenced in the popular press intentionally fail to control for age because it would invert the narrative the study is intended to convey. Age distribution of the general population is substantially different from the age distribution of illegal immigrants.
The age distribution of illegals is about 4x higher for mid 30s to 40s vs those in their mid 20s while the ages of homicide offenders is reversed about 2.5 highe
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Ok, what about the fact that most of the illegal immigrants are male .. shouldn't that counteract the effect you're talking about? Also, where did you get your age distribution numbers from? And since you seem to have the numbers, why don't YOU do the math you're talking about? Ultimately, the question we need answered is, "do (illegal) immigrants as a whole increase, or decrease, the probability of a random US citizen being murdered?".
High school English class (Score:2)
Maybe we were studying the beliefs of the Puritans in The Scarlet Letter, but there was some description of Hell as being "down below."
I chimed in, "Really? I thought Heaven and Hell were next to each other separated by a retaining wall."
Teacher replies, "Where did you get that idea?"
I could have replied, "from the Bible. In fact, we talked about the Gospel parable of Lazarus and the rich man in class, where literary sources outside the Bible call him 'Dives." On passing from this life, the rich m
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I REALLY hate to tell you this but many of us we lean right of center ARE supporters of Ukraine.
What no one should be a supporter of is the incredible amount of stealing of aid money going on.
Have you brought your evidence of "incredible amount of stealing of aid money" to the attention of the IG overseeing US AID to Ukraine or do you have none and are just talking out your ass?
https://oig.usaid.gov/sites/de... [usaid.gov]
Heck even NPR is reporting this.
Do you mean the 40 million dollars the Ukrainian government recovered after catching those responsible?
https://www.npr.org/2024/01/28... [npr.org]
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HOA (Score:2)
Doesn't the HOA for the ISS make them do the repairs?
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Actually, what you describe is very German. I know. My ancestry is from the intersection of German and Slavic culture.
Slavic culture is rather slap-dash. That is why there is an air leak in the first place.
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I see the cause (Score:2, Funny)
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Nah, it was a stray bullet from occupied Ukraine.
Serena Auñón-Chancellor (Score:3)
Who went nuts and drilled a hole in it this time?
Why? (Score:2)
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New technology for fixing leaks (Score:2)
And of course, it's a link from This Old House's youtube channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
Pretty sure (Score:2)
Russian Windows (Score:5, Funny)
They haven't checked the window because Russians know to stay away from windows.
I have the fix! (Score:2)
https://www.amazon.ca/Siberian... [amazon.ca]
Can't find it, but don't WORRY! (Score:2)
>the crew "regularly conducts work to locate and fix possible spots of the leak." It said in a statement carried by Russian news agencies: "There is no threat to the crew or the station itself."
If they haven't found the leak and it's increasing, how can they say there's no threat? Couldn't this be the initial stage of a stress fracture that will suddenly give out?
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If they haven't found the leak and it's increasing, how can they say there's no threat?
They know how much air is being generated and how much pressure is inside the station.
By the powers of simple subtraction, they know how much air is leaking.
The leak was 0.05atm a year ago and has increased to 0.1atm now.
The station is kept at 14psi (one earth atmosphere)
They can crank that up to generate almost 30psi if need be.
The leak can continue to increase at its present rate for another 20 years before they can't maintain 1atm of pressure.
Alternately the leak can increase to release 20 times the air
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Couldn't this be the initial stage of a stress fracture that will suddenly give out?
No. A stress fracture possibly, but a stress fracture that can "suddenly give out" isn't really an option.
That's like saying you could prick your skin with a needle and your body would suddenly blow out...
No, it isn't even close. For one, your comparison of skin to metal is laughable, since these materials display vastly different fracture characteristics. The space station hull is made of metal and glass--crystalline materials which will tend to exhibit fatigue fractures until the remaining strength of the metal is no longer able to withstand the stress--at which point a high-speed 'brittle fracture' occurs. Example: the "OceanGate" sub failure just last year.
The only two sources of stress are a) external ports and docking clamps, both of which have been examined and ruled out, and b) thermal stresses from the sun, which are relatively slowly applied.
The station is far more vulnerable to micro meteors and small space junk punching a hole through its skin. There just isn't the internal pressure there for this to cause any form of blow out.
And yet the leak increases... How? Since the st
No leak (Score:2)
Lucky (Asteroid) Strike (Score:3)
Is potato (Score:3)
Reminds me of an old joke: what eats a bucket of coal, belches a cloud of black smoke and cuts a potato in three? The Russian machine for cutting potatoes in four.
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