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Can we detect it on exoplanets?


No. If it's barely detectable right next to the organism, it's extremely below the noise level on a planetary scale.


What if we got 8 billion people to all jump, er, bio-luminate at once?


You'd still get less than 1 cd of luminance in total, unless my napkin math is way off.




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