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The Starmaker wrote:
> 
> Proxima b is a science fiction planet...
> 
> no one has ever seen it..
> 
> it's properties actually comes from a science fiction novel published in 2013.



Shouldn't those people who discovered Proxima b get the 2016 Hugo
Awards????



(and also the guy who discovered Canals on Mars should get the Hugo
Awards too!)



Hell, might as well give everyone here the Hugo Awards....