If somehow you could instantly travel to a planet that was about 200 million light years away. Then somehow was able to look back at Earth (and even view the surface) with a massive massive telescope. Would you see the Dinosaurs?
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Wow, tahts pritty silly. 200million light years. So it woul take 200million yeras for you to see pressent day. And dinosaws were about 60million years ago. So no.
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Triassic and Jurassic were actually about 200 million years ago.
I think its because ive had a few but I cant understand what I would see if it was possible!
Triassic and Jurassic were actually about 200 million years ago.
I think its because ive had a few but I cant understand what I would see if it was possible!
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o really, i didn't check it out to see how far back they went. Just kinda presumed. Then i gues the answer is yes.
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'If' you could make that journey in an instant then yes, but as you're a massive object you'd never get there faster or even at the same time as the light.
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Agreed. If the technology existed you could.
Will technology like that exist ever? Doubt it.
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Obviously a hypothetical question, hence the 'somehow' in the OP 
- It is an interesting question though, unless you instantly dismiss it is hypothetical, these are the interesting questions!
When we are looking at planets millions of lightyears away and decoding the light they are giving off, say one had a similar 'signature' to that of present day earth. This would siggest similar life patterns, yeah? but this planet has already evolved for another million or so years. Perhaps we would actually be looking at earth millions of years ago...
- It is an interesting question though, unless you instantly dismiss it is hypothetical, these are the interesting questions!When we are looking at planets millions of lightyears away and decoding the light they are giving off, say one had a similar 'signature' to that of present day earth. This would siggest similar life patterns, yeah? but this planet has already evolved for another million or so years. Perhaps we would actually be looking at earth millions of years ago...
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Short answer is yes 
If you could instantly exist at a location 200m light years away with a view of earth and the means to see it up close, you would observe earth as it was 200m years ago. Make it 65m years and you can find out if dinosaurs really were destroyed by a meteor 
If you could instantly exist at a location 200m light years away with a view of earth and the means to see it up close, you would observe earth as it was 200m years ago. Make it 65m years and you can find out if dinosaurs really were destroyed by a meteor 
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No. Its called looking in a really big telescope.
no - nothings optically accurate enough to do that, we cant even see the flag left on the moon from gound based optical telescopes on earth.
however, assuming we could travel at the speed of light to get to said planet its probably safe to say our telescopes would also be far superior to current technology....
however, assuming we could travel at the speed of light to get to said planet its probably safe to say our telescopes would also be far superior to current technology....