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The ocean produces roughly half of the oxygen humans breathe — not the Amazon, not forests — through microscopic organisms called phytoplankton that most people have never heard of
How does a fish live eight kilometres beneath the surface, under pressure equal to a thousand cars stacked on its back, in water so cold and so heavy that the proteins in its body should long since have stopped folding?
The more money, time, or effort we've poured into something failing, the harder it gets to quit, even when walking away is plainly the smart move: we throw good resources after bad just to justify what we spent
Ingenuity was funded as a technology demonstration with five flights and a thirty-day window, assembled partly from mobile phone components because nothing space-rated was light enough, and it flew seventy-two times across nearly three years before a rotor tip touched the ground and permanently grounded the first aircraft to fly on another planet
