Terra reached its designed orbit on 24 February 2000 after 11 weeks of checkout and eight ascent burns. In 2020 the flight team stopped fighting the drift. NASA now projects end-of-science in February 2027.
In 1995, biologists released 41 wolves into Yellowstone after a 70-year absence. Three decades later, the story of what they changed — and what they didn't — is being rewritten.
Old cathedral windows really are thicker at the bottom, but the sag comes from medieval glassmaking, not centuries of slow flow. Actual room-temperature glass would need more than the age of the universe to move at all.
On January 7, 1610, Galileo pointed a homemade 20x telescope at Jupiter and sketched four dots that rearranged themselves nightly — the first proof that worlds could orbit something other than Earth, and the observation that cracked open the Aristotelian cosmos.
The body remembers scarcity long after the mind has registered abundance, and no amount of money can fully convince it otherwise.
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