Yes, you would be viewing something that occured a year earlier.

Try this one...
If you are traveling in a vehicle capable of velocities faster than the speed of light, what would happen when you turned on your headlamps?

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Don't worry, Be happy.

I'm guessing you would need some incredible radar and an as of yet not invented navigation system to avoid running into stuff.

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Solid B, My rigging crew had moved and help load some pretty fancy satellites in the past that are cruising thru space. New Horizons is half way to pluto and should be there the spring of 2015. Boy do miss my rigging work my towers, the cargo planes, some of the travel, interesting jobs, my crew I'm digressing again, I need regular work again.

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CV, amazing work, I was thinking about your involvement with space program and NASA, I hope I'm around to see pictures from that satellite, I can dig you missing all of the interesting work you have done, but would miss having you around too. Maybe an instructor position or a professional consult job will become available, then, you can help new recruits, still be able to do some of that type of work and travel, but not spend as much time doing only that. ( I'm not trying to talk you out of going back to work it's just a guitarist seems, how can I put this, infinitely less dangerous.)

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Very interesting question
I would think that if the planet were viewed with the naked eye, then yes.
Such a telescope is also an optical time machine.
Think about it. You are magnifying the light - therefore you are magnifiying it's speed.

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I, Twinhit, may have just discovered a very REAL example of true time travel. That the telescope is also a time machine.
An Optical Time Machine. Or perhaps, a Light Time Machine

The greater the magnification power, the faster the time-space travelled.

Because a magnifier magnifies light and light travels 6 trillion miles in a vacuum in one Julian year, provided that scope's line of sight is in a vacuum, one's eyes can observe the events of an object at that distance provided that object's radiation of light is equal to that of the standard at which the "light" used to calculate a light-year.
However, because the line of sight is not in a vacuum, it would be fair
to say that the light viewed, experiences degradation and resistance
such as an aircraft would experience in flight. A kind of "Solar "lumindynamics" ala "aerodynamics" or something of that nature
which resists and affects a light particle's "flight" characteristics, as it were, specifically speed.

IF these things are true, then the observer is NOT the time traveller, but the observer. Light is the time traveller. The telescope would be the time traveller's time machine and "time portal", as it were.

IF I am correct, then Hans Lippershey, who is credited for inventing the telescope could also be credit for inventing the first REAL time machine of the optical type. Some 402 years ago.

IF my speculations prove to be correct, it is fair to say that one cannot physically see faster than the speed of light. Doing so would require seeing into the future because phyical light reveals only the present. Futuresight is on the side of the spiritual or supernatural as some would call it. A glimpse of this power is in the realm of the spirit. Intuition and gut instincts that prove to be true come from the supernatural origins within interacting with the supernatural origins without. It is NOT something a person can of themselves control. Dreams may apply also. Prophecies that prove to be true, yet, even more so.

Your headlamps would shed the light backwards and the drivers/pilots of other space vehicles would think they are going in the wrong direction. Space police will write you a ticket for:
1. Careless driving for going reverse on the spaceway.
2. Going faster than the speed of light speed limit.
3. Talking on the space phone while flying(driving).
4. No headlights.


And that folks was the canuck humor for ya

The universe is estimated at 13 to 18 billion years old.

If you had a telescope that could see 19 billion light years would you see god or the next universe over?

constantly
expanding

The jury is still out on those.

We may yet find god or the next universe over.

Better keeps your lights on or you might run into some dark matter or dark energy.

And whatever you do don't get too close to black holes.

Hubble space telescope recently spotted a galaxy 13 billion light years away, what we're looking at is what was there 600 million years ago, it might not even be there anymore, aliens may even have nuked each other into oblivion, we're just going to have to wait another 600 million years to find out, does that make sense
http://dvice.com/archives/2010/10/hubble-telescop.php

We'd probably meet others along the other way, then it would be come and stay at ours for a couple of days you must be tired with all the travelling, which would end up weeks, it's gonna take forever, don't talk to strangers would be my only advice aliens

If there's intelligent life other than us out there, and they have the technology to be looking at the earth, the nearest planet they could be living on is so far away that they would be looking at the renaissance.

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Intelligence as we know it maybe, we're still bamboozled trying to figure out mystery's left to us from ancient civilizations...nasca lines, pyramids the word over, easter island statues, ancient batteries from Iraq, read about the Sumarian's 6,000 bc and tons more, I don't think it would be too hard for a higher intelligence to pull the wool over our eyes, we've only just crawled out of the swamp as far as space travel is concerned, we've only recently found dwarf planets in our own inner solar system

Religion and science on one thread, huh? Risky. OK: I'll bite...

How many Christian Scientists does it take to change a light bulb?

Two. One to change the bulb and one to tell Tom they cost six thousand dollars each!!!

Cheers - C

"Top Gun" Tom is a Christian Scientist Nevin, I think that I saw a video clip of him telling that to Oprah. Is she a Christian Scientist too? If she is they could charge like 26K for the light bulb

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