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Zero-Covid harming 75% of European firms in China: business group

Beijing (AFP) Sept 21, 2022 - China's inflexible and inconsistent zero-Covid policy is crippling European business operations in the country, a major business lobby said Wednesday, warning that the presence of the companies can no longer be taken for granted.

By Space War Editorial Team · Jun 25, 2026

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Flora And Fauna

Bristlecone pines growing on the arid slopes of California's White Mountains have been alive for more than 4,800 years, meaning individual trees standing today germinated before the Great Pyramid of Giza was built and have survived every empire since

In California's White Mountains, a Great Basin bristlecone pine called Methuselah has been alive for roughly 4,850 years — older than the Great Pyramid of Giza. Scientists sequenced its 24-billion-base-pair genome to understand how a single organism survives that long.

By Space War Editorial Team · Aug 28, 2026
Space Scopes

Margaret Hamilton's Apollo 11 flight software threw a 1202 alarm three minutes before Armstrong landed, and the priority-scheduling logic she had insisted on including let the guidance computer drop lower tasks and keep flying while a radar switch flooded it with data

Three minutes before Eagle touched down on 20 July 1969, the Apollo Guidance Computer began flashing a 1202 alarm as a rendezvous radar switch flooded it with unexpected data. Margaret Hamilton's priority-scheduling architecture shed low-priority jobs and kept the landing functions alive — five times in four minutes.

By Space War Editorial Team · Aug 24, 2026

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