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Indeed it is. What this tells us is that if we had good enough telescopes we could tell if the aliens have DirecTV. ;)
Then they've had DirecTV on Saturn since before Galileo's time, right?
Then they’ve had DirecTV on Saturn since before Galileo’s time, right?
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Actually, that hadn’t occurred to me. Those guys at DirecTV were really ahead of their time.