DarthGinsu

DarthGinsu t1_iyaju73 wrote

Civilizations could have already occurred or haven't yet. If we don't settle other worlds, the mantle of earth will eventually gobble up all evidence of our own existence if we aren't around by then. Applying that to a "Past" civilization on Earth is moot as well due to it being impossbile to find the evidence of such an outstanding claim.

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DarthGinsu t1_iuc99ua wrote

From reading/watching material. They were discussing a solar telescope, using the sun's mass to act as a lense and see the light that gets bent around the sun. You could probably see things on planets in a detailed fashion. Then introduce the theory of a ship that is able to travel faster than light because space gets pulled through it.

Now combine the two, if you can travel faster than light without actually breaking the speed limit of light and have that telescope. Depending on where you place that device, you could see light before it reaches there.

This would make viewing actual history unfold since its the light of the past that the device would be getting ahead of.

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DarthGinsu t1_iuc8esx wrote

The gravity lensing in this makes me imagine trying to head to it, only to find out it was somehwere else and light was just bent there by gravity causing travel routes, I would think, to be a little Swirly Dirly. Hopefully more people appreciate what hasn't been seen and make this cork screwing cosmic rollercoaster of a little blue marble a better place so that way we can atleast live to know Life will spread. Imagine in the future a kid on his history test says "What planet did humans originate"

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