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  • Luna 9 Makes First Soft Moon Landing

    Luna 9 Makes First Soft Moon Landing
    Feb 3 2026
    # February 3, 1966: The Soviet Luna 9 Makes the First Successful Soft Landing on the Moon

    On February 3, 1966, humanity achieved one of its most remarkable milestones in space exploration when the Soviet Union's Luna 9 spacecraft became the first human-made object to achieve a soft landing on another celestial body and transmit photographs back to Earth.

    After a journey of approximately 79 hours, Luna 9 descended toward the lunar surface in the Ocean of Storms (Oceanus Procellarum), one of the Moon's vast dark plains. At 18:45:30 Moscow Time, the spherical landing capsule touched down, bounced, and settled on the ancient lunar regolith. This was a triumph after at least nine previous Soviet attempts had failed over the preceding six years!

    The landing sequence was ingeniously designed. At about 75 kilometers above the surface, the main retro-rocket fired to slow the spacecraft. Then, at just 5 meters altitude, the descent engine shut off and the 99-kilogram lander separated, essentially free-falling the final distance. The egg-shaped capsule was designed to survive the impact using airbags and its unique shape, which allowed it to roll upright regardless of how it initially hit the surface.

    Once stabilized, four petals automatically opened like a mechanical flower, deploying antennas and exposing the camera system. The lander immediately began its primary mission: photographing the lunar surface. The first panoramic image was transmitted just 4.5 minutes after landing – a grainy but revolutionary view showing rocks of various sizes scattered across the lunar landscape, with the spacecraft's own antenna in the foreground.

    The photographs stunned scientists worldwide. They revealed that the lunar surface could support spacecraft weight – a critical question that had genuinely worried mission planners. Some scientists had theorized the Moon might be covered in deep dust that would swallow any landing craft. Luna 9's images showed a relatively firm, rocky surface peppered with small stones and pebbles, with dust no more than a few centimeters deep.

    In an amusing Cold War footnote, while the Soviets were preparing to officially release the images, Britain's Jodrell Bank Observatory picked up Luna 9's transmissions. The clever radio astronomers recognized the signal format as similar to standard wirephoto technology used by news agencies. They quickly adapted their equipment and published the photos in British newspapers before the official Soviet announcement – much to Moscow's irritation!

    Luna 9 operated for three days, conducting seven radio sessions and transmitting multiple panoramas totaling about five hours of transmission time. The mission also carried instruments to measure radiation levels on the lunar surface, providing crucial data for future human missions. The spacecraft fell silent on February 6 when its batteries finally expired.

    This achievement gave the Soviet Union a significant propaganda victory in the Space Race and provided invaluable scientific data. It paved the way for the Apollo program's eventual human landings just three years later. Luna 9 proved that landing on the Moon was possible, that the surface could support spacecraft, and that equipment could function in the harsh lunar environment.

    Today, Luna 9 remains on the Moon's surface, a silent sentinel and testament to human ingenuity – humanity's first permanent outpost on another world, even if just a small, dormant capsule resting forever in the Sea of Storms.


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  • Goodyear's Accidental Discovery Transforms Rubber Forever

    Goodyear's Accidental Discovery Transforms Rubber Forever
    Feb 2 2026
    # February 2nd in Science History: The Discovery of Vulcanization (1841/1842)

    On February 2nd, we celebrate one of those magnificent "happy accidents" in science that changed the world forever: Charles Goodyear's discovery of vulcanization, the process that transformed rubber from a sticky, weather-sensitive curiosity into one of the most important materials of the modern age.

    Picture this: It's the early 1840s, and Charles Goodyear is obsessed. Not just interested, not merely dedicated—absolutely consumed by rubber. This obsession has cost him dearly. He's been imprisoned for debt multiple times, his family lives in poverty, and his neighbors think he's completely mad. He conducts experiments in his kitchen, much to his wife's dismay, mixing rubber with every substance imaginable: soup, cream cheese, castor oil, and even witch hazel.

    The problem Goodyear was trying to solve was rubber's temperamental nature. In summer heat, rubber became a gooey, smelly mess that would stick to everything. In winter cold, it became brittle and cracked. Despite these drawbacks, Goodyear believed rubber could be stabilized and transformed into something revolutionary.

    The legendary discovery happened (accounts vary between late 1839 and early 1842, with February 2nd being cited in some sources) when Goodyear was demonstrating a rubber-sulfur mixture to visitors. In his excitement—or perhaps just his characteristic clumsiness—he accidentally dropped or flung a glob of sulfur-treated rubber onto a hot stove. Instead of melting into useless goo as expected, something miraculous occurred: the rubber charred slightly around the edges but remained flexible and springy. Even better, when Goodyear left it outside in the freezing winter cold overnight, it remained pliable!

    This was the eureka moment. The heat, combined with the sulfur, had fundamentally altered the rubber's molecular structure, creating cross-links between the polymer chains that gave it stability across temperatures. Goodyear called his process "vulcanization" after Vulcan, the Roman god of fire.

    But here's where the story gets even more interesting: Goodyear's discovery didn't immediately make him rich. In fact, he died $200,000 in debt in 1860. He struggled to patent his process, fought numerous patent battles (including one in Britain where he lost to Thomas Hancock, who had independently developed a similar process), and was generally terrible at business despite being brilliant at chemistry.

    Yet vulcanization itself? An absolute game-changer. It made possible rubber tires for bicycles and eventually automobiles, rubber hoses, rubber boots, waterproof clothing, erasers that actually worked reliably, and thousands of other applications. Today, the global rubber industry is worth hundreds of billions of dollars, with vulcanized rubber in everything from the gaskets in your refrigerator to the tires on your car to the soles of your shoes.

    The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, founded in 1898 and named in Charles Goodyear's honor, became one of the world's largest tire manufacturers—though ironically, Goodyear himself had no connection to the company and had been dead for nearly 40 years when it was established.

    So on this February 2nd, take a moment to appreciate the rubber items around you, and remember Charles Goodyear: the persistent, poverty-stricken inventor whose accidental discovery literally helped set the wheels of the modern world in motion!


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  • Columbia Tragedy: When Seven Astronauts Lost Their Lives

    Columbia Tragedy: When Seven Astronauts Lost Their Lives
    Feb 1 2026
    # February 1, 2003: The Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster

    On February 1, 2003, the world watched in horror as Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during atmospheric reentry, killing all seven crew members aboard. It remains one of the most tragic moments in space exploration history.

    Columbia was NASA's oldest shuttle, the first of the fleet to fly into space back in 1981. On this fateful mission, designated STS-107, it had spent 16 days in orbit conducting scientific experiments. The crew included Commander Rick Husband, Pilot William McCool, Mission Specialists David Brown, Kalpana Chawla, Michael Anderson, Laurel Clark, and Payload Specialist Ilan Ramon—Israel's first astronaut.

    What made this tragedy particularly heartbreaking was that the shuttle's fate was sealed during launch, 16 days earlier. A briefcase-sized piece of foam insulation broke off from the external fuel tank and struck Columbia's left wing at approximately 500 mph. This punched a hole in the reinforced carbon-carbon panels that protected the wing's leading edge. At the time, NASA engineers debated the damage's severity, but ultimately concluded it posed no safety threat—a fatal miscalculation.

    During reentry on that clear Texas morning, traveling at over 12,000 mph and experiencing temperatures exceeding 3,000°F, superheated gases penetrated through the breach in the wing. The extreme heat progressively destroyed the wing's internal structure. At 8:59 AM CST, Mission Control lost data from temperature sensors in the left wing. Moments later, at 9:00 AM, just 16 minutes before scheduled landing at Kennedy Space Center, Columbia broke apart over Texas and Louisiana, creating a debris trail stretching across multiple states.

    People on the ground reported seeing bright streaks across the sky, hearing sonic booms, and watching pieces of the shuttle fall like metallic rain. In the following months, over 25,000 searchers combed through forests, fields, and even the bottom of lakes, eventually recovering approximately 84,000 pieces of debris—about 38% of the shuttle.

    The Columbia Accident Investigation Board spent months analyzing what went wrong. Their findings were damning: the foam strike was indeed the physical cause, but organizational failures at NASA contributed significantly. The agency had become complacent about foam strikes, which had occurred on previous missions without catastrophic consequences. The board criticized NASA's safety culture and decision-making processes.

    This disaster had profound implications. It grounded the shuttle fleet for over two years while NASA implemented safety improvements. It accelerated plans to retire the shuttle program (which ended in 2011) and refocused attention on the inherent risks of human spaceflight. The tragedy also influenced the design philosophy for future spacecraft, emphasizing crew escape systems and simpler, more reliable designs.

    The Columbia crew's dedication to science lived on through their mission data, which survived on hard drives recovered from the wreckage. Their experiments contributed to fields ranging from bone density research to spray cooling technology.

    Today, pieces of Columbia reside in the "forever" storage facility at Kennedy Space Center, serving as powerful reminders of the price of exploration and the courage of those who venture into space knowing the risks. The crew members are remembered not just for how they died, but for their passion for discovery and their representation of humanity's best qualities in the pursuit of knowledge beyond our planet.


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  • Explorer 1 Discovers Van Allen Radiation Belts

    Explorer 1 Discovers Van Allen Radiation Belts
    Jan 31 2026
    # The Day Explorer 1 Opened America's Eyes to Space (January 31, 1958)

    On January 31, 1958, at 10:48 PM EST, a modified Jupiter-C rocket roared to life at Cape Canaveral, Florida, carrying America's first satellite into orbit. After the humiliation of watching the Soviet Union launch Sputnik 1 and Sputnik 2 the previous fall, the United States desperately needed a win in the rapidly escalating Space Race. Explorer 1 delivered—and then some.

    The satellite itself was surprisingly modest: a sleek, pencil-shaped cylinder just 80 inches long and 6.25 inches in diameter, weighing a mere 30.66 pounds. But what it lacked in size, it made up for in scientific ambition. Designed by a team led by rocket pioneer Wernher von Braun and instrumented by physicist James Van Allen from the University of Iowa, Explorer 1 carried a cosmic ray detection package that would make the first major scientific discovery of the Space Age.

    The launch came after a nail-biting series of delays and one spectacular failure. The Navy's Vanguard rocket had exploded on the launch pad just two months earlier in a disaster the press cruelly dubbed "Kaputnik." The pressure was intense. When Explorer 1 finally achieved orbit, von Braun and his team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory anxiously waited for confirmation. Due to a calculation error, they expected the satellite's signal much earlier than it actually appeared, leading to agonizing minutes of uncertainty before receiving the joyous confirmation: "We're in!"

    But Explorer 1's real legacy wasn't just getting America into space—it was what the satellite discovered up there. Van Allen's instruments detected something unexpected: regions of intense radiation trapped by Earth's magnetic field, belts of charged particles surrounding our planet like invisible donuts. These became known as the Van Allen radiation belts, and their discovery fundamentally changed our understanding of Earth's interaction with the solar wind and cosmic radiation.

    The radiation readings were so intense at certain altitudes that Van Allen initially thought his instruments had malfunctioned. The Geiger counters were actually saturating—being overwhelmed by radiation levels far higher than anticipated. It took data from subsequent Explorer missions to confirm that these were real radiation zones, not instrument errors.

    Explorer 1 continued transmitting data until May 23, 1958, though its batteries died and it remained in orbit as a silent sentinel until finally burning up in Earth's atmosphere on March 31, 1970—after more than 58,000 orbits spanning twelve years.

    The success transformed America's space program from embarrassed also-ran to serious contender. It led directly to the creation of NASA later that year and helped establish the principle that American space efforts would prioritize scientific discovery, not just Cold War showmanship.

    Today, understanding the Van Allen belts remains crucial for protecting satellites and astronauts from radiation. Every spacecraft venturing beyond low Earth orbit must account for these zones that Explorer 1 first revealed. Not bad for a satellite smaller than most people and lighter than a large dog!

    The tiny Explorer 1 proved that in the space race, it wasn't just about getting there first—it was about what you discovered when you arrived.


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  • Hitler's Rise Sparked History's Greatest Scientific Brain Drain

    Hitler's Rise Sparked History's Greatest Scientific Brain Drain
    Jan 30 2026
    # January 30, 1933: Adolf Hitler Becomes Chancellor — Launching Science into Its Darkest Chapter

    On January 30, 1933, an event occurred that would create one of the most catastrophic brain drains in scientific history. Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany, and within months, the Nazi regime began systematically purging Jewish scientists and intellectuals from German universities and research institutions.

    What makes this date so pivotal for science history is the sheer magnitude of genius that would soon flee Germany. In the early 1930s, Germany was the undisputed world leader in physics and chemistry. German universities in Göttingen, Berlin, and Munich were where the quantum revolution was happening in real-time. The country had produced more Nobel Prize winners than any other nation.

    Then came the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service in April 1933, which removed Jewish employees from government positions, including universities. The effect was immediate and devastating.

    **The Exodus of Giants:**

    Albert Einstein, already touring abroad, wisely never returned to Germany. He settled at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study. Max Born, who would win the Nobel Prize for his fundamental work in quantum mechanics, fled to Britain. James Franck resigned his position in protest even before being forced out. Lise Meitner, who would co-discover nuclear fission, eventually escaped to Sweden in 1938. Hans Bethe, future Nobel laureate who would unlock the secret of how stars shine, moved to America.

    The list goes on: Edward Teller, Eugene Wigner, John von Neumann, Leo Szilard, Erwin Schrödinger (who left in protest), and countless others. Approximately 1,600 scholars were dismissed in the first wave alone.

    **The Beneficiaries:**

    America and Britain became the unexpected winners. The Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton became a haven for displaced European intellectuals. Universities like Berkeley, Columbia, and Chicago suddenly had access to the finest minds in physics. Britain's universities absorbed many refugees who enriched their scientific establishments immeasurably.

    **The Ultimate Irony:**

    Many of these exiled scientists would contribute to the Manhattan Project, the very weapon that helped defeat Nazi Germany. The regime that expelled them because of racial ideology essentially handed the Allies their most powerful weapon. Hitler's Germany, meanwhile, never developed an atomic bomb, partly because they'd expelled or driven away the expertise needed to build one.

    The brain drain extended beyond physics into mathematics, chemistry, biology, and medicine. Germany's loss was calculated not just in individual brilliance but in the collaborative networks that made German science so productive. When you remove a quarter to a third of your top scientists, you don't just lose those individuals—you destroy the ecosystem of seminars, collaborations, and mentorships that produce future generations.

    This single political event on January 30, 1933, shifted the center of scientific gravity from Central Europe to America, where it remains today. It stands as perhaps history's greatest example of how political ideology can destroy scientific enterprise and how the free movement of people and ideas is essential for scientific progress.

    The lesson endures: science thrives on diversity, openness, and the free exchange of ideas across borders. When nationalism and prejudice interfere, everyone loses—except perhaps the societies wise enough to welcome those who are forced to flee.


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  • Death Valley's Sailing Stones Mystery Finally Solved

    Death Valley's Sailing Stones Mystery Finally Solved
    Jan 29 2026
    # The Racetrack Playa Mystery Gets Solved! (January 29, 2014)

    On January 29, 2014, scientists finally cracked one of geology's most delightful and perplexing mysteries: **the sailing stones of Death Valley's Racetrack Playa**!

    For decades, researchers had been utterly baffled by a bizarre phenomenon in one of Earth's most inhospitable locations. At Racetrack Playa, a dry lakebed in California's Death Valley, heavy rocks—some weighing up to 700 pounds—mysteriously moved across the flat desert floor, leaving long trails behind them in the cracked mud. These weren't pebbles being blown by wind; these were massive boulders apparently gliding across the landscape all by themselves, sometimes traveling over 1,500 feet and leaving perfectly etched grooves in their wake.

    The sailing stones had inspired wild speculation since the 1940s. Theories ranged from hurricane-force winds to magnetic fields to dust devils to ice sheets to (naturally) aliens. Scientists had studied the phenomenon for over 60 years, setting up time-lapse cameras and GPS trackers, but the rocks stubbornly refused to move when anyone was watching. It was like trying to catch the Tooth Fairy in action.

    Enter Richard Norris, a paleobiologist from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and his cousin James Norris, an engineer. In 2011, they installed a weather station and GPS units on several rocks, then waited. And waited. The playa is one of the flattest places on Earth and one of the driest, receiving only about 2 inches of rain per year.

    Then, on January 29, 2014, magic happened—or rather, science happened! The researchers witnessed the rocks moving for the first time in scientific history. The answer? A perfect storm of rare conditions: During winter, the playa occasionally floods with a few inches of water. When temperatures drop at night, the water freezes into thin sheets of "windowpane" ice. As the sun rises and the ice begins to melt and break apart, light winds (just 10 mph!) push these floating ice sheets against the rocks. The ice acts like a giant frozen conveyor belt, slowly shoving the rocks across the slick muddy surface beneath.

    What made this discovery so charming was that the mechanism was simultaneously mundane and magical—no aliens required, but the precise conditions happened so rarely that nobody had ever caught it in action. The rocks moved at a glacial pace (pun intended) of about 2-6 meters per minute, and only when this Goldilocks combination of water, ice, wind, and temperature occurred.

    The team published their findings later that year in the journal PLOS ONE, complete with GPS data, time-lapse photography, and video evidence of rocks in motion. After 70+ years of scientific head-scratching, the mystery was solved by patient observation and good old-fashioned luck in being there at the right moment.

    The sailing stones remind us that Earth still holds mysteries in plain sight, and that sometimes the most obvious explanations elude us simply because we're not there at the precise moment when rare conditions align. It's a beautiful example of how persistence, clever instrumentation, and being in the right place at the right time can unlock nature's secrets—even ones hiding in one of the most visible, studied, and desolate places on the planet.


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  • 73 Seconds: The Challenger Disaster

    73 Seconds: The Challenger Disaster
    Jan 28 2026
    # The Challenger Disaster: January 28, 1986

    On January 28, 1986, at 11:38 a.m. EST, the Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart just 73 seconds after liftoff, killing all seven crew members aboard and becoming one of the most traumatic events in the history of space exploration.

    The mission, designated STS-51-L, was particularly notable because it carried Christa McAuliffe, a high school social studies teacher from Concord, New Hampshire, selected from over 11,000 applicants to be the first participant in NASA's Teacher in Space Project. Her presence meant that millions of schoolchildren across America were watching the launch live in their classrooms, making the disaster even more devastating to the nation's psyche.

    The crew also included Commander Francis "Dick" Scobee, Pilot Michael Smith, Mission Specialists Judith Resnik, Ellison Onizuka, and Ronald McNair, and Payload Specialist Gregory Jarvis. Resnik was one of America's first female astronauts, while Onizuka and McNair were trailblazers as Asian American and African American astronauts respectively.

    The launch had been delayed multiple times due to weather and technical issues. The night before, temperatures at Kennedy Space Center had dropped to near freezing—well below the acceptable range for shuttle launches. Engineers at Morton Thiokol, the company that manufactured the solid rocket boosters, expressed serious concerns about the O-rings, rubber seals designed to prevent hot gases from escaping the joints of the rocket boosters. These O-rings had never been tested at such low temperatures, and engineers warned they might lose their flexibility and fail to seal properly.

    Despite these warnings, NASA management, facing pressure from previous delays and eager to maintain the shuttle program's ambitious schedule, decided to proceed with the launch.

    The engineers' worst fears were realized. At liftoff, puffs of gray smoke were visible from the aft field joint of the right solid rocket booster—evidence that the cold had indeed compromised the O-ring's ability to seal. Hot gases began escaping and eventually burned through the external fuel tank, causing a catastrophic structural failure.

    The shuttle didn't explode in the traditional sense; rather, it broke apart due to aerodynamic forces. The crew cabin remained largely intact and continued upward before falling back to the Atlantic Ocean. Evidence suggests that at least some crew members survived the initial breakup and may have remained conscious during the fall.

    The disaster led to a 32-month suspension of the shuttle program. President Reagan appointed a special commission, known as the Rogers Commission, to investigate. Physicist Richard Feynman became famous for his simple but dramatic demonstration during the hearings—he dropped an O-ring into ice water to show how it lost resilience in cold temperatures, illustrating the fundamental flaw that NASA had ignored.

    The investigation revealed troubling patterns of organizational failure within NASA: normalizing deviance (accepting increasingly risky conditions as normal), communication breakdowns between engineers and management, and a flawed decision-making culture where schedule pressures overrode safety concerns.

    The Challenger disaster profoundly changed NASA. The agency implemented major safety reforms, redesigned the solid rocket boosters, and restructured its management approach. The tragedy remains a cautionary tale studied in engineering schools, business programs, and organizational psychology courses worldwide as a prime example of how groupthink, organizational pressure, and communication failures can lead to catastrophic results.

    Today, the crew is remembered at the Space Mirror Memorial at Kennedy Space Center and through various scholarships, schools, and facilities named in their honor. The Challenger's loss reminds us that exploration carries inherent risks and that the courage of those who venture into space deserves our utmost commitment to their safety.


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  • Edison Patents His Practical Incandescent Light Bulb

    Edison Patents His Practical Incandescent Light Bulb
    Jan 27 2026
    # January 27, 1880: Thomas Edison Receives Patent for His Electric Incandescent Lamp

    On this day in 1880, Thomas Alva Edison received U.S. Patent No. 223,898 for his electric incandescent lamp—a moment that would quite literally illuminate the future of human civilization!

    Now, here's where the story gets deliciously complicated: Edison didn't actually *invent* the light bulb. In fact, over twenty other inventors had created various forms of electric lighting before him. British inventor Joseph Swan had a working bulb, and scientists like Humphry Davy had demonstrated electric light decades earlier. So what made Edison's patent so significant?

    Edison's genius wasn't in the initial concept—it was in making the darn thing *practical*. Previous incandescent lamps had major problems: they burned out quickly (sometimes in minutes), required too much electric current, used platinum filaments that were prohibitively expensive, or needed vacuum pumps that didn't exist in most places.

    Edison and his team at Menlo Park, New Jersey, conducted thousands of experiments testing different filament materials. The legend says they tried everything from fishing line to beard hair (yes, really). They eventually discovered that a carbonized cotton thread, and later bamboo fiber, could glow for over 1,200 hours. But the filament was only part of the puzzle.

    Edison also perfected the vacuum inside the bulb (removing oxygen prevented the filament from burning up), developed a higher-resistance filament that required less current (making it economically viable), designed the screw base we still use today, and—perhaps most importantly—created an entire electrical distribution system to power his bulbs. He understood that a light bulb without accessible electricity was just an expensive paperweight.

    The patent granted on January 27, 1880, covered his specific improvements: a carbon filament of high resistance in a near-perfect vacuum. This wasn't just a scientific achievement; it was the cornerstone of a commercial empire. Edison would go on to found Edison Electric Light Company, which eventually became General Electric.

    The impact was staggering. Gas lighting had dominated for decades, but it was dangerous (explosions and fires), produced toxic fumes, and provided dim, flickering light. Edison's system changed everything: factories could operate around the clock, cities became safer and more vibrant at night, and reading after sunset became easier (revolutionizing education and literacy).

    Interestingly, Edison's relationship with Joseph Swan ended up in court over patent disputes in Britain, eventually leading to a merger of their companies. Edison was not only a brilliant inventor but also a shrewd—some would say ruthless—businessman who understood patents as weapons in commercial warfare.

    This patent also marked the beginning of the "War of the Currents" that would pit Edison's direct current (DC) system against George Westinghouse and Nikola Tesla's alternating current (AC) system, but that's another gloriously dramatic story for another day.

    Today, while we've moved on to LEDs and other technologies, that screw-base design from Edison's patent remains standard in billions of sockets worldwide. Every time you flip a light switch, you're benefiting from the work that culminated in that patent granted 146 years ago today—proof that sometimes the most revolutionary inventions aren't completely new ideas, but rather the perfection and systematization of existing ones.


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