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The 28.6-kilogram amateur-radio satellite AO-7 went silent in mid-1981 after its batteries shorted. Then, on 21 June 2002—21 years later—British radio ham Pat Gowen heard it transmitting again: one of its shorted batteries had somehow become an open circuit, allowing the spacecraft launched in November 1974 to run directly from its solar panels whenever conditions permit.
A mountain lion crossed two of the busiest freeways in Los Angeles around 2012 and spent the next decade living in Griffith Park, in a territory a fraction of the size any adult male cougar is supposed to need. He died in 2022, and the wildlife crossing now being built over the 101 exists largely because of him.
Since the year 2000, nearly 4,000 free-drifting floats have sunk themselves 2,000 meters into every ocean on Earth every ten days, surfaced just long enough to phone a satellite, and quietly built a database of more than two million profiles of the sea nobody had to sail a single mile to collect
A river in Ohio was so thick with oil and industrial waste that it caught fire at least 13 times, the last of them in June 1969. That fire was small and burned for under half an hour, but the photographs did more for American water law than the twelve before it, and the Clean Water Act followed in 1972.
