If you really want to be snotty about it (and I do), it's a metaphorical reference to something being *a really long time away*, technologically. And at the rate our space programs keep being castrated... they're correct. It is light-years away before we reach Venus.
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Date: 2011-01-06 08:09 am (UTC):-pppppppppppp
So there.