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The Air Leak on the ISS May Have Been Deliberate
Popular Mechanics via yahoo.com ^ | September 4, 2018 | Avery Thompson

Posted on 09/04/2018 4:02:13 PM PDT by grundle

Late last week, the astronauts aboard the International Space Station woke up to some distressing news: There was a leak somewhere on the station, and air was escaping into space. After an extensive search, the leak was finally found and plugged with tape and gauze, and the air pressure inside the station has been stabilized.

But now that the crisis has passed, there’s a new concern for the astronauts and the space agencies that manage the station. How exactly did that hole get there in the first place? At first, the theory was that a stray micrometeorite collided with the station and punctured a hole in the wall, but examination of the hole itself suggests that it was made by human hands, perhaps deliberately.

Looking at a photo of the hole, it looks less like a puncture caused by a small meteorite and more like a hole that was purposefully drilled. That's not just a layman's observation either. Dmitry Rogozin, the Director General of Russia’s space agency Roscosmos, suspects that the drilling was done with the intention of causing a leak. “There were several attempts at drilling,” he said in televised comments, by a “wavering hand.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: astronomy; dmitryrogozin; elonmusk; falcon9; falconheavy; falseflagoperation; iss; nasa; roscosmos; russia; sabotage; science; spacex
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1 posted on 09/04/2018 4:02:13 PM PDT by grundle
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To: grundle

The butler did it.


2 posted on 09/04/2018 4:03:39 PM PDT by a fool in paradise
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To: grundle

Obviously, Donald Trump did it. LOL


3 posted on 09/04/2018 4:06:25 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: grundle

Guy drilled a hole in the wrong spot while making the Russian part of the ISS and covered it up. Patch freezes and expands in space.


4 posted on 09/04/2018 4:09:19 PM PDT by Southern Magnolia
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To: reg45

Someone wanted to go home early


5 posted on 09/04/2018 4:10:06 PM PDT by hadaclueonce ( This time I am Deplorable)
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To: Southern Magnolia

Measure at least twice in space, drill once.


6 posted on 09/04/2018 4:10:24 PM PDT by wally_bert (Terrific! Terrific? Harve Nyquist never ordered any radials.)
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To: grundle

Shatner knows who did it but nobody will listen to him.


7 posted on 09/04/2018 4:13:02 PM PDT by dead
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To: Southern Magnolia

Yeppers. Not malicious, but a simple error. (Or a drunken error - same result is a misplaced hole.)

Then, he tried to cover it up so as to “not make a fuss, not cost (even more) money and delays.


8 posted on 09/04/2018 4:13:30 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (The democrats' national goal: One world social-communism under one world religion: Atheistic Islam.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
Thanks grundle. Probably a Kaepernick fan, or opponent of Brett Kavanaugh, or some other Demwit crap like wanting to repeal (sic) the 2nd Amendment.

9 posted on 09/04/2018 4:14:12 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: grundle

It certainly looks like a hole that was drilled.


10 posted on 09/04/2018 4:15:53 PM PDT by libertylover (Trump has driven the Democrats and GOPe batshit crazy.)
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To: grundle

Regardless of how the hole formed it looks like an easy fix. Run a tap through the hole. Spread some sealant on the threads of a bolt. And then install the bolt. You will get a durable and permanent seal.


11 posted on 09/04/2018 4:16:05 PM PDT by Revel
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To: Southern Magnolia

In space, no one can hear you freeze.


12 posted on 09/04/2018 4:17:20 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: grundle
“There were several attempts at drilling,” he said in televised comments, by a “wavering hand.”

Space psychosis?

13 posted on 09/04/2018 4:17:51 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: grundle

Patched it with Adams Sour Gum ,LOL , the favorite Gum of the Russians


14 posted on 09/04/2018 4:19:05 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: grundle

Have the ISS declared a national emergency...

Governor Moonbeam strategy...except not with wildfires.


15 posted on 09/04/2018 4:19:38 PM PDT by BBB333 (The Power Of Trump Compels You!)
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To: Revel

This is why they always carry a can of Flex Seal on the Space Station.


16 posted on 09/04/2018 4:20:19 PM PDT by freefdny
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To: Revel

Your fix sounds 100Xs better than theirs. Who the heck came up with tape and gauze?


17 posted on 09/04/2018 4:21:21 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: grundle

Hooligans!


18 posted on 09/04/2018 4:25:37 PM PDT by jaz.357 (Blithering Intellectual.)
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To: jaz.357

Any muzzles on board?


19 posted on 09/04/2018 4:38:36 PM PDT by Surrounded_too
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To: grundle
The hole as pictured, next to several stamp marks in the metal, possibly indicate it was a documented defect that was repaired.

The stampings may be similar to a method we used at a major US aerospace company to document a repair. We would ink stamp an area near a repair with the QA documentation method that allowed the repair.

A repair, by definition in MIL-STD-1520/ISO 9000:2000, may make a component functional but not in compliance to original engineering documentation.

In this case, the repair may have been a patch or plug that failed revealing the original defect.

20 posted on 09/04/2018 4:40:17 PM PDT by pfflier
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