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  • How We Could Find Aliens By Looking For Their Pollution

    How We Could Find Aliens By Looking For Their Pollution

    Remember chlorofluorocarbons, aka CFCs? The big, bad ozone-depleting pollutant 1) sticks around for tens of thousands of years and 2) is almost entirely man-made. That means if extraterrestrial life are anything like us, according to astrophysicists at Harvard, CFCs could be a key to finding aliens.