@internic @dougmerritt @johncarlosbaez This is a particular bugbear of the science-fiction critic James Nicoll--turns out there are a lot of science-fiction novels that blithely assume that Alpha Centauri is still the closest star to Earth millions or billions of years in the past or future. "STARS MOVE" is one of his go-to phrases.
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