For your consideration...

acaudill75

I am not sure if it this is for realz, but DH made the statement that if someone who lived on a planet 165 million light years from Earth looked through a high powered telescope at us, they would see dinosaurs walking around.

Let that marinate.

angelashly

Huh. Now I wish I could see

SpaceGirlSpiff

This is hurting my tired brain.... 

But now I'm intrigued...

Hmmm....

Manateearmz

That made my face hurt

SpaceGirlSpiff

This is hurting my tired brain.... 

But now I'm intrigued...

Hmmm....

justAphase said:

I was hoping space girl would have the answer!

Sorry, I'm only an expert at crash landing and defeating imaginary space monsters!  Science burns me.

CinemaGoddess

So if we look at them, do we see the future?

SpaceGirlSpiff

Just so everyone is clear on where my name comes from ... do not trust actual astronomical facts from me  

Karbird5

@SpaceGirlSpiff has her owl siggy back!  

That is my only contribution here.

CinemaGoddess

So we'd see their past?

CinemaGoddess

We'd see their dinosaurs. Or the Fall Of Gallifray because this is some Doctor Who level shit.

SandyClam

Many of the stars that we see in the sky at night are dead. The light just takes so long to reach us, we still see the light that was emitted however long ago. That's where the phrase light years originates from. It's really hard for our brains to comprehend that amount of space. Time and space are weird.

Your mom's vagina's so wide, it takes a light year to travel from one side to the other.

SpaceGirlSpiff

Science sounds really neat... I'm sad I can't understand it better.

klondikebar

pobrecita said:

No one can see into the future tho.

My DeLorean says otherwise.

klondikebar

The Andromeda Galaxy is the farthest object able to be seen by the naked human eye. It's seen as it was 2.5 million years ago. 

nonoemily

https://htwins.net/scale2/

Have you guys ever seen this? It broke my mind in two.

acaudill75

Yeah, it pretty much made my night when he told me that tidbit. Now I'm trying to imagine ways to get to said imaginary planet at like ultra Mach warp speed so that I can see a dinosaur. But I'm sad because my limited knowledge of science says that we can't travel faster than the speed of light. And even if we could, it would still be 165 million lights units. Andplusalso, gas is almost $4 a gallon.

NotSharknado

Nerd alert.

NotSharknado

my5sons

Wordsmith26 said:

When I looks at the stars, I see Mufasa.  

I see Mufasa all the time...it's my one of my cats' names... he is all kinds of orange fluffy awesomeness. Except the shedding.