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But only after 10 years. You couldn't see anything that wasn't visible from the viewpoint of the mirror beforehand, as from earth's point of view the mirror isn't there yet. And if you're there anyway… you can just look at Earth with the craft that's on the position of the mirror already.
That's why we need to find a natural mirror somewhere already out there, so we can see into our past. Something like a planet made of pure mercury, or an arrangement of blackholes doing gravitational lensing that bends our light back to us, or whatever. We'd also need instruments vastly superior than what we currently have in order to get any useful information out of seeing our own light bounced back to us from so far away
... But still! the idea that it's at least hypothetically possible to actually see our own past is very exciting!
Just look in any mirror. What you see is also you in the past.
“‘That’s a picture of me when I was younger.’ Yeah, no shit. Every picture of you is a picture of you when you were younger.”
-Mitch Hedberg
He didn't curse in that line. In fact he didn't curse much generally. I don't have any objection to curse words, it just doesn't sound like his voice when you add curse words in.
Fuck shit ass titties. I just had to get that out after talking about not cursing
Fuck shit ass tities right back at you.
He did on the record.
I tried to point this out and everyone got grumpy. It must be nice being so attractive.
True true. Heck it takes some 100-150ms for your brain to register what your eyes have seen.
So you are saying, I always looking younger in the mirror?
You don't even need a mirror, just look at your hands or feet or whatever, that's what your hand or foot or whatever looked like 2 or 3 nanoseconds ago.