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'Star Trek' imagined strange new worlds 60 years ago, but are real exoplanets even stranger?
5+ day, 21+ hour ago (521+ words) "To explore strange new worlds; to seek out new life and new civilizations; to boldly go where no one has gone before!" September 8th, 1966 was a Thursday. Not a fresh-start-Monday or an exciting Saturday. A regular old Thursday; except that this…...