The Hole in the Sky That We Actually Fixed

to arrive at this vision, we must have a global conversation about the world we want to live in.

Then there is space, a domain that hosts the satellites essential for communication of all manner: the global positioning system that helps you get from one place to another, weather forecasting, and military operations. There are nearly 2,000 active satellites in orbit as well as an inordinate amount of debris that, if collided with, could render

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Camp Century may have been a Potemkin research station; still, actual research was conducted there. Even as the tunnels warped and buckled, a team of glaciologists set about drilling straight down through the ice sheet. The drilling team pulled up long, skinny cylinders of ice and kept going until they hit bedrock. The cylinders—more than a thousan

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