• crime [she/her, any]
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    12 hours ago

    if this happened to the USSR at any point or to China we'd never hear the end about it

    • Red_Renewal_Cosmonaut [she/her, comrade/them]
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      8 hours ago

      something similar happened in the USSR, but only due to its collapse. The story of Sergei Krikalev is a very sad one and an inspiration for a lot of sovietwave/doomer art. he went into space a cosmonaut for the greatest country on earth, but it collapsed while he was up there.

      since the whole collapse was so devastating it took a bit of time before the Russian Federation was even able to organize a rescue. he was supposed to only be in space 100 days but it was extended to 311 days.

    • Wheaties [she/her]
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      8 hours ago

      If this happened under Trump, we'd have never heard the end of it.

      Fuck, it's still weird that it hasn't been the main story (pre-:luigi-dance:, of course). If this happened 10 years ago, FOX News would have had a great big ticker under every segment that said WEEKS:DAYS:HOURS:MIN:SEC that OBAMNA has left Our astronauts STRANDED!!!