March 3, 2005
- Pilot Steve Fossett successfully landed the round-the-world jet aircraft GlobalFlyer, becoming the first person to fly solo, non-stop around the world, without refuelling. (BBC)
- A recreation of the brain cavity of Homo floresiensis the miniature human (or "hobbit") found on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2004 shows that the skeleton was not a pygmy or a microcephalic human. This analysis carried out at Florida State University provides more evidence that H. floresiensis is a new species. (BBC) (Nature)
- Scientists have recovered 100 000 atoms of solar wind from the crashed NASA spacecraft Genesis. (ABC News)
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“With two thousand years of Christianity behind him ... a man can’t see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head.”
—Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894–1961)