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Old 10-15-2007, 06:08 PM  
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Originally Posted by FredIsMe View Post
That is wild. How do they get the technology to see that far?

If they can see a planet 20 light years away then they can definitely see us pick our nose from space.
They don't VISUALLY see it, but use gravitational wobbles to detect the planet and determine planet habitability by inferring from the qualities of the system's star.
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