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An Arsenal of Mysteries: The Terrifying Allure of a Remote Caribbean Island

Baua Electric

The two most popular tour companies never wrote me back, so I planned the trip with Jaime Zamora, a freelance guide who had been exploring the island for more than 40 years. As we bumped along, I wondered what it was like to bring, say, a passel of guinea pigs from Colombia to Puerto Rico in the bottom of a wide canoe.

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SpaceX aces 60th operational Starlink launch after string of scrubs

Teslarati

About an hour before liftoff, lightning conditions forced the company to call off the attempt. It leaves more than 3000 working Starlink satellites in Earth orbit, likely meaning that a majority of all working satellites are owned and operated by SpaceX less than three full years after the company began operational launches.

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Europe Expands Virtual Borders To Thwart Migrants

Cars That Think

In early 2017, in the forest highlands of eastern Guinea, a man I’ll call Jacob began a journey that would take him across five Saharan countries and multiple failed sea crossings. It’s feasible because traffickers often hand a satellite phone to migrants and tell them to call for help once they are in international or European waters.

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