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fjmeat

fjmeat

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If a planet that was 63 million light years away from us was looking at the earth through a unimaginably high-powered telescope, they would see dinosaurs?
 
fjmeat said:
If a planet that was 63 million light years away from us was looking at the earth through a unimaginably high-powered telescope, they would see dinosaurs?
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Of course not, the dinosaurs didn't really exist and their bones were planted when the planet was created 6,000 years ago. The aliens wouldn't see anything.
 
I'd imagine the amount of light making it that distance wouldn't be great enough to make out much, certainly not dinosaurs.
 
So all I have to do is create a space ship that goes way faster than the speed of light, create a telescope with a really kickass lens, and I can see what actually happened on Earth at various points in time?

Mind. Blown.

<-- gets to work
 
No. Dinosaurs went out 65 million years ago. 😛


Now, if the aliens were 66 million light years away, then they might be able to snatch up a few stray dinosaur photons.
 
Jeff7 said:
No. Dinosaurs went out 65 million years ago. 😛


Now, if the aliens were 66 million light years away, then they might be able to snatch up a few stray dinosaur photons.
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1 million years before they went extinct? Might be more interesting to catch a glimpse of them 1 year before, or even 1 month. Maybe see what made them go extinct instead of just guessing.

P.S. The TLDR crowd won't wait around a month for the main event. Better make it a few minutes before extinction.
 
Only if they looked at Earth 63 millions years BEFORE dinosaurs.
The light takes 63 millions years to reach the other planet.
 
edro said:
Only if they looked at Earth 63 millions years BEFORE dinosaurs.
The light takes 63 millions years to reach the other planet.
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If the observer is 63 million light years away, then the light they see from Earth left Earth approximately 63 million years ago.

Hypothetically (ignoring all interference in the line of sight between the observer and Earth), yes, it would be possible to see dinosaurs if you were far enough away to see light from that time period.
 
GagHalfrunt said:
Of course not, the dinosaurs didn't really exist and their bones were planted when the planet was created 6,000 years ago. The aliens wouldn't see anything.
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You're only partially correct. You forget...aliens don't really exist...otherwise, there would have been mention of them in the bible. :colbert:
 
edro said:
Only if they looked at Earth 63 millions years BEFORE dinosaurs.
The light takes 63 millions years to reach the other planet.
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Let's get something straight.
Planet X is 63 million light years away from Earth right now.
If someone on Planet X looks at Earth right now as I'm typing this, they are seeing Earth as it was 63 million years ago.
 
OCGuy said:
Yes. All they have to do is find Bethlehem, and look for what Jesus is riding.
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hey...hey...HEY! You leave Jesus out of this. That ***back is supposed to be mowing my lawn and fixing my sprinklers this week. If you stop him...he'll just wander off looking for a taco truck or something. :colbert:
 
BoomerD said:
That ***back is supposed to be mowing my lawn and fixing my sprinklers this week.
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Don't worry, he is on the Cowboys, so he isn't playing football in January.

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Argo said:
Maybe. At 63 mln ly away, light from earth could get lost among microwave background radiation.
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The only thing lost is the poor soul that can't discriminate visible light ~400nm to 700nm (off the top of my head and I'm rounding off to the nearest hundred, don't google it and yell at me that it's not exact) and microwave which is on the order of millimeters.

(again not exact but if it were much smaller the little holes in the screen of your microwave door would allow it to leak out and then your face would look like cooked bacon, and I don't mean Kevin Bacon. You don't want to give the zombies even more incentive to eat your face do you?)

Holy stream of consciousness batman!😉
 
To further blow your mind, everything you see is actually not in the present, but actually a tiny faction of a second in the past.
 
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