🧵 You know how we can see the light of stars that are long dead

Anonymous at Fri, 14 Mar 2025 06:14:48 UTC No. 16618479

Because the visual information is delayed by distance, does that mean that if an alien race living on some planet outside the solar system develops a superuberduper powerful telescope that let's them look at distant objects in great detail to the point they could even see people walking around on Earth, instead of seeing us they'd be seeing like dunno ancient sumerians or ancient greeks or whatever depending on how far they are from Earth.
Like those people are long gone but they still exist as ''visual information'' that can potentially be tapped into?