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Callisto article. I would probably have stopped at that point, had not I learned about FAC and GAN.
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they often contradict each other and may contain plain errors. In addition, scientists have their own idiosyncrasies. So I always need to decide which information to include and which to ignore. This may be a difficult choice. Another problem is overabundance of information in some areas (
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