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<\/a><\/div>\nIn Star Trek lore, the first Starship Enterprise will be built by the year 2245. But today, an engineer has proposed – and outlined in meticulous detail \u2013 building a full-sized, ion-powered version of…<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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