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One county in northern Virginia holds more than 300 data centres and is routinely said to carry around 70 percent of the world's internet traffic. The local utility now has more requests for power than it can connect, and the queue is measured in years.
A Cold War hydrophone network built to track Soviet submarines across entire ocean basins was declassified in 1991, and scientists now use those same undersea microphones to follow individual whales calling to each other across thousands of miles of open water
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.
