WarcraftFarscape t1_iudlkjk wrote
Reply to comment by Wingardium_Draconis in The scariest picture of space... by EDFLsnape
One funny thing I read was “when you see a star in the night sky just think, that light travelled for millions of years at the speed of light without being stopped by anything until your eyeball got in its way”
Wingardium_Draconis t1_iudmg3v wrote
another anecdote is,
"A star which we see today must have emitted that light billions of years ago, at the same time when Dinosaurs roamed the earth. To a planet roaming around that star, our sun would be another star. Any one seeing our sun from that distance would see the light emitted by our sun billions of year ago.
So, much so that, if they were using similar telescopes like us, they would actually see dinosaurs, and not us."
Its actually overwhelming and mindblowing to even think that way.
MVRK_3 t1_iudsa5b wrote
And the fact that the star were actually seeing is probably dead and gone already as well.
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