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November 14, 1969: Apollo 12 Launches — the Moon Mission That Survived Its Own Lightning Strike
On November 14, 1969 — four months after Apollo 11 — NASA launched Apollo 12 toward the Moon in a thunderstorm. Thirty-six seconds after liftoff, lightning struck the Saturn V. The spacecraft’s instruments went dead, alarms screamed, and for a few moments, the second Moon landing mission appeared to be over before it began. Struck…
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Starship Flight 15: Satellites in Orbit, Booster Lost — the Interim Assessment
SpaceX has once again reached Earth orbit with Starship Flight 15 and deployed all 26 Starlink satellites it carried. At the same time, the first stage was lost: the planned catch of the Super Heavy booster was aborted. Whether the upper stage can return from orbit to the launch tower for the first time is…
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Ground Stop in the USA: What Shut Down Air Travel on November 13 — and What Is Known About the Cause
A failure in the communications network of the U.S. air traffic control system triggered a nationwide ground stop on Friday, November 13, 2026. For more than four hours, large parts of U.S. air travel could not take off on schedule, and the effects reached well beyond the United States. According to the government’s preliminary explanation,…
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After the Microsoft Outage: Cause, Impact and Lessons for Businesses
Microsoft has reported full recovery after the major outage that knocked out Outlook, Exchange Online and several other Microsoft 365 services on November 12 and 13, 2026. That makes this a good moment for a first assessment: What triggered the incident, why did a backend problem take down so many applications, and what lessons should…
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slopcore.info: AI Music Videos About AI, Made by AI
With slopcore.info, Slopcore now has an address of its own: the site collects the videos, introduces their makers, and explains how to make your own. What Slopcore Is Slopcore is music videos about AI, mostly made by AI. The genre emerged in September 2026. It borrowed its name from the slur “AI Slop” – the…
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November 13, 1940: Disney’s ‘Fantasia’ Premieres — Animation Grows Up and Gets Sound in Stereo
On November 13, 1940, Walt Disney’s most ambitious film — and his greatest gamble — premiered at the Broadway Theatre in New York. “Fantasia” was a two-hour animated concert: no plot, no dialogue, just classical music and images. It was also a technological landmark, introducing stereophonic sound to movie theaters 17 years before it became…
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Outlook Outage on the Night of November 13: What Happened and Where Things Stand
If you could not open your Outlook mailbox on Thursday evening or during the night into Friday, you were far from alone: a worldwide disruption hit Microsoft’s cloud services. In the early morning of November 13, 2026, there is still no all-clear. Here is what is known so far, why other applications are affected as…
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November 12, 2014: Philae Lands on a Comet — Humanity’s Most Distant Touchdown
On November 12, 2014, a small washing-machine-sized probe named Philae separated from the European spacecraft Rosetta and descended toward the surface of a comet 511 million kilometers from Earth. After a seven-hour fall, it touched down on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko — the first, and so far only, landing on a comet in human history. Ten Years…
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Cancer Prevention: How Diet and Lifestyle Can Reduce Your Risk
How much cancer is actually preventable? Cancer is not simply a matter of bad luck or bad genes. The World Health Organization estimates that 30 to 50 percent of cancers could be prevented by avoiding known risk factors and applying proven prevention strategies. US data underline the scale: an estimated 40 percent of new cancer…
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How to Prevent Alzheimer’s: The Science-Backed Role of Diet and Lifestyle
Can Alzheimer’s disease be prevented? For a long time, the answer was a resigned “probably not.” That has changed. The 2024 report of the Lancet Commission on dementia prevention, intervention and care concluded that around 45 percent of dementia cases worldwide could potentially be prevented or delayed by addressing 14 modifiable risk factors over the…