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Michael Collins spent roughly 21 hours alone in the Apollo 11 command module while Armstrong and Aldrin were on the surface, and for 48 minutes of each orbit he was on the far side of the Moon with no radio contact to Earth, further from another human than anyone before him
What happened when a South Asian delta nation, battered by a 1991 cyclone that killed roughly 138,000 people, planted a living green wall of salt-tolerant trees along its coast?
How did a Chinese plateau bigger than France, shedding 1.6 billion tonnes of silt a year into a river it stained yellow, cut that load to roughly a fifth within a single generation?
How did a sealed limestone cave in eastern Europe stay cut off from the surface for 5.5 million years and grow a food web fed by chemistry instead of sunlight?
