inter planetary pseudo time travel technique

1. Travel to exoplanets at varying distances from Earth (so 45, 60, 85, 90, 100 light years away etc) finding as many as possible and set up teams on each one.

2. Install stupendously powerful telescopes on each of these planets - point at Earth.

3. Create method of faster than light communication (might not be possible, if not, use telepathy via Nintendo DS)

So, i'm assuming that with a sufficiently powerful telescope you can actually watch dead people going about their daily lives Google Earth-style. If you want to know exactly what was happening somewhere on Earth 50 years ago, you ask the the team 50 light years away to point there (if that side of the planet is facing). Find and set up telescopes on more planets at different distances for more accuracy - the more planets, the more time periods you have access to.

You don't need the exoplanets and teams, just some amazing telescopic satellites.

Without light-speed propulsion the probes will take ages to get there though. Oh, and the communication thing...

Not impossible though, I suspect. Unless good visuals may be unobtainable because of the millions of things that could get in the way of a clear shot of the earth... Namely the Oort Cloud and asteroid belts.

if the universe is a donut, then you don't have to worry about the interplanetary travel technique nor the telepathy thingy. You just have to find where to look at. (and a mother-fuckerly big telescope).

edit : you're stoned rambo aren't you ?

Also, actually. To get a shot of the earth in light you'd have to have the Sun between the Earth and the telescope and I think the Sun would probably make such a shot impossible.

maybe. Anyway, if you've got a system to travel nearly as fast as the speed of light, you can still travel to the future. That's pretty awesome.

Yeah i know what you're saying there are proabably hundreds of little technicalities. I was more thinking just on the pure concept of watching dead people and watching historic events in 'real-time' because whenever you hear about looking into the past this way, it's always people talking about looking at early galaxies and stuff like that, you don't normally hear about physically looking at dead people walking around.

@gary

LOL then

this would only give you access to "future" past events unless you had access to faster than light travel innit? Since you cant catch up to light 2 thousand lightyears away, youd pretty much only be able to watch things you missed by leaving to become an employee of google past.

ok i am merely the Steve Jobs to your Wozniak. I'll rally the troops, you iron out the flaws.

When i first thought about this i was thinking of doing it with aliens lol but i was trying to sanitise it for watmm

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Coming back to it, it's an interesting idea. It would make good sci-fi.

An vast alien race that telepathically controls it's future by using this method.

first we'd have to travel faster than the speed of light. then we'd have to have really really really really awesome telescopes installed x light years away.

if you had someone out there though, you'd obviously have to send the communication exponentially than the speed of light.

basically you have to open a worm hole or physics says naw.

You should read this book, Rambo.

  On 1/18/2010 at 8:22 PM, theSun said:

 

 

basically you have to open a worm hole or physics says naw.

Hawking debunked that theory a few years ago.

cool.... he's going to need more than that stick though

edit. @takeshi

Can we have a steady state big bang? You know - a bang that expands until the "glue" becomes stressed too much, and it begins to retreat, slowly compressing everything into nothing causing the largest (smallest) black hole possible until it collapses upon itself and upon its own weight of nothing-everything-ness explodes in a new big bang again?

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a steady state big bang? Absolutely

  On 1/18/2010 at 10:06 PM, Brandi_B said:

  On 1/18/2010 at 8:22 PM, theSun said:

 

 

basically you have to open a worm hole or physics says naw.

 

Hawking debunked that theory a few years ago.

so you have a link to a reference on this? would be interested in reading that.

we don't know anywhere near enough about space or time in the universe to assert either way.

maybe within our current realm of knowledge and the way we think everything works, hawking "debunked" worm holes. but really, if we have learned anything at all from history, it is that what we perceive as impossible changes with every generation.

  On 1/18/2010 at 6:46 PM, Gary C said:

You don't need the exoplanets and teams, just some amazing telescopic satellites.

 

Without light-speed propulsion the probes will take ages to get there though. Oh, and the communication thing...

 

Not impossible though, I suspect. Unless good visuals may be unobtainable because of the millions of things that could get in the way of a clear shot of the earth... Namely the Oort Cloud and asteroid belts.

 

Irl lol at Rambo jumping to manned teams before satellites

lol this whole idea is ridiculous anyway! There's still the small matter of sending a satelite 60, 70, 100 light years away. The original idea was with aliens FYI

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Were the aliens asexual beings who all had penises? If so then that's an idea I can get behind in more than one way!

i was asexual for a while it's vastly underated

ALIENS

Did I use the wrong word? I meant like hermaphrodite aliens with penises.