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Letter: For the record - 21 July 2018

Published 18 July 2018

• Divers get the bends when they ascend (30 June, p 41).

• Strewth! Australia occupies less than one-ninth of Earth's circumference at its latitude, but aerials there can “see” one-third of a satellite's orbit (30 June, p 25).

Issue no. 3187 published 21 July 2018

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