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Keep examples separate from results

Invented numbers, scenes and scenarios are labelled as illustrative. They are teaching aids, not collected observations or findings from a study. An analogy helps explain a question but does not establish scientific evidence.

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Drafting may be AI-assisted. Launch images are AI-generated conceptual illustrations, identified in their captions. They are not experimental results, scientific figures or photographs documenting a real laboratory.

Our scope

This is a general educational publication, not the historical OpenFlyData database service. We do not claim affiliation with its former operators or with organisations cited as sources. Our articles help readers understand ideas and evidence; they do not report original experiments.