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So, any certified sci fi geek, or even any slightly-beyond-casual astro-news scanner, knows that so far our only visuals of exoplanets amount to a couple of infuriating little pixels of light. But some crafty scientists flipped the script. They sorta reverse-engineered how Earth would look to someone viewing it from many light years away if they were shackled with our pitiful 21st century Earther level of telescopery. The result: the above image. So, the black lines represent coastlines, allowing our no-doubt quintuple-eyed, tentacled, quadruple-headed alien viewers to spot the *squint your two, pitiful eyes* outlines of Africa in the middle, Asia in the U.R. and the Americas to the left. Can’t see it yet? Squint harder. Get the full scoop over at Science Magazine.