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Originally Posted by 40oz

Yea man. Another thing that always facinated me was that if it was possible to look at earth with a high power telescope (which is currently impossible because the telescope would have to see earth faster than the speed of light) from venus or something. When you saw earth it would be in the a different era. Maybe now it would be the 60's or 70's. We could look back and see who shot kennedy.

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holy shit! thats like time travel... but like seeing into the past instead of being there.

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Originally Posted by affasd

so if there was life somewhere way out there, we would be existing at the same time, but they are in the past. or something

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It means that if there is life out there...if...they would be in the present time. the same time as earth. It's just that the universe is so huge it takes light a long time to travel between planets and stars. So lets say A person from earth looks at a star in the sky that isn't really a star, its a planet. On this planet that the person from earth is looking at is an 'alien' who is similarily looking at which he beleives is a star in the sky, but it is really earth. Basically they are both looking at eachothers planets. The light from the stars they are looking at could be anywhere from 10 to thousands of years old because light travels so far between these planets which are billions of miles away. So both the planets (the human and the alien) are both in present time, but the light they see coming from the planet they are looking at is really from the fpast.

For all we know the sun could have died 7 minutes ago! It hasnt, but still. It could have.

Also, as this is to do with space, they've found a new planet in another place blah blah blah, i think it's closer to the sun than us, it's temps are between 0c and 40c and they think it's very possible there could be life.

It was in the paper - so it MUST be true ... hahahahahahah.

Anyway.