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+- The timeline brings launches up as the time passes them, offers play
+  speeds from real time to a week a second, and waits on each weather frame
+  until it loads instead of running past it. The time now rides in a bubble
+  over the handle. Zooming out on the globe stops while the globe is still in
+  view instead of leaving it a speck (samehkhamis, #1513).