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comment by washedup
washedup  ·  4118 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Will We Ever Know Everything About Human Evolution?

For Idea #1, this is extremely hard to do, but fun to think about. Information from 1913 is already 100 light years away, so it would be impossible to send a craft today to be able to capture that information. Here is an article that takes this idea to the extreme:

http://rein.pk/gravitational-lensing-to-observe-ancient-eart.../





theadvancedapes  ·  4118 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    For Idea #1, this is extremely hard to do, but fun to think about.

Yes, it was just a thought experiment. Nothing more.

And the article you linked is amazing. Thanks for sharing!