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Man must be at the center of the universe in the 21st century space boom

Man must be at the center of the universe in the 21st century space boom

I’m old enough to have watched with excitement the grainy television footage of the first Apollo 11 moon landings in 1969. I can never look at the Moon without remembering that heroic feat. It was made just 12 years after the first object, Sputnik-1, was launched into orbit. If this momentum had been maintained, surely …

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Two horses, a foal and its mother stand in bush shrub.

Wild horses once roamed freely on this island. Their removal has seen the boom in native species

For residents of Curtis Island, off Queensland’s central coast, it’s not uncommon to see wild horses roaming the beach, bushland or even the streets of the tiny township of Southend. “For us, they are an integral part of the island,” Kerry Freney said. “You have the ocean, you have the landscape, the beaches, and you …

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