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When Luna 9 made the first successful soft landing on the Moon on 3 February 1966, astronomers at Jodrell Bank recognised that its unencrypted picture signal resembled the Radiofax format used by newspapers. The Daily Express supplied a facsimile receiver, allowing the first photographs from the lunar surface to appear in Britain before Moscow officially released them.
In spring 2018 Microsoft's Project Natick sank 864 servers 117 feet off Orkney; after two years underwater the sealed racks failed at one-eighth the rate of a land twin
In 1864 brown trout ova from England hatched in Tasmania's Plenty River; about 6,000 swan galaxias remain, and in 2023 conservationists moved 180 into three trout-free havens
In 1902 the American Sugar Company planted Florida red mangroves on Molokai's mudflats to hold the silt; by 2001 Oʻahu alone carried 146.57 hectares, up from 9.49 in 1951–52
