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Bristlecone pines growing on the arid slopes of California's White Mountains have been alive for more than 4,800 years, meaning individual trees standing today germinated before the Great Pyramid of Giza was built and have survived every empire since
In 1971, Apollo 14 astronaut Alan Shepard pulled a Wilson six-iron head he had smuggled aboard, clipped it to a lunar sample scoop handle, and hit two golf balls one-handed in a pressurised suit that would not let him bend at the waist
Why did a small Andean nation with a Pacific coastline write the rights of nature into its constitution while still permitting oil drilling under one of the most biodiverse rainforests on the planet?
Margaret Hamilton's Apollo 11 flight software threw a 1202 alarm three minutes before Armstrong landed, and the priority-scheduling logic she had insisted on including let the guidance computer drop lower tasks and keep flying while a radar switch flooded it with data
