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Re:Researchers have identified 100 mysteriously disappeared ... by GuiA on Monday December 23, 2019 @03:51PM (#21867256)
So they could identify who plagiarized their catalogs?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_entry

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Re:Researchers have identified 100 mysteriously disappeared ... by ben_w on Monday December 23, 2019 @06:08PM (#21868309)
Well you could, but why would you want to? Other than video games which didn’t exist in 1950, I can’t think of any reason someone would use a star catalogue in a for-profit scenario.
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