That was both incredibly informative and extremely interesting! Not to mention the professional grade writing! Thanks much for your input!

Yep, well said. Very insightful response.

Jeez-us, I forgot about the South Florida pill-mills, though don't know how. Self-induced selective amnesia, I suppose.

I lived way too many years in Florida. Loved the weather and the ocean. But, everything else... Was a fair trade for a long while, those perks versus the craziness that seemed almost drawn to that State. Eventually, though, the scales tipped the other way and now I live in South Carolina.

Nah, gotta disagree with you on Florida. Nothing functions quite right in Florida, not even the laws of physics.

Here's a notion I've toyed with for a very long time. I'd appreciate any and all feedback from resident experts.

For context, most here are familiar with the claim that if one could instantly jump from Earth to a point 65 million light-years distant and looked back at Earth with a telescope of sufficient power, it would be possible to see dinosaurs roaming the planet's surface.

I am aware of some of the fallacies of this scenario. For instance, problems with photon resolution in seeing something as relatively small as a dinosaur. But, it still should be possible to recognize the Earth as an inhabited planet, even if only by shambling, unintelligent beasts. For comparison, just look at how many exoplanets have been discovered thus far and how much of these worlds we're able to learn even from such vast distances.

Now, assuming the above claim to be true, after calculating where Earth was at a given moment in the past, could one not then look at this point in space with a telescope and see a past Earth?

Excellent point. It's an understandable mistake that we humans so often make, the tendency to use our own tiny lifespan as a benchmark. And even now, at the relatively advanced age of 54 years, I still routinely fall victim to this fallacy. And if I were to live another thousand years, I'd surely still be prone to this perspective.