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NASA: We’ve been getting a lot of footage of you being cringy in high school.
Meh, amateurs. Being cringy as a kid at times is pretty much inevitable. That’s when you learn your ways.
You can watch me being cringy as an adult for decades.
You may need to squint a little.
If you did this quickly with a warp drive or whatever, you would still need at least ten years to see the results, so you could only see as far back as when you put the mirror up at the most.
No, you can see 20 years into the past, but only in 10 years. If you managed to will it into existence now, the light that left us 10 years ago would arrive at the mirror now and start heading back. That light would hit earth 10 years from now, so in 2035 we’d be able to see 2015
It would be neat to record the mirror as it was going.
Ignoring physics of moving a mirror near the SoL, having a recording of it would both be cool to watch and would help confirm on a macro level the effects of speed-related dilation.
SoL
Satellite of Love?
Sandwich of Lettuce
How long would a sandwich of lettuce stay fresh in space?
Science! and about $70 million dollars oughta do it. Ladies and gentlemen: the intergalactic sandwich bag!
Who wouldn’t love the crisp freshness of frozen solid lettuce?
Sound of Linguine
Squish of Lumbago
Yeah, but it’d take us strictly longer than N years to place a mirror N light years away form Earth, so kinda useless.
We just need to point our telescopes towards the phantom zone where Zod and his buddies can reflect the light back.
Or youd see 20 years into the future… Let that one bake your noodle for a spell…
No that’s not how light works. It’s not 20 years either direction otherwise you could use your bathroom mirror to see into the future
No you always see into the past.
Light cannot travel back in time. The reflection you’d see in the mirror is the light that left the Earth 20 years ago.
The mirror always looks back… (insert annoying spooky laugh)
But, just to be less of a Halloween spookster. The mirror is placed in a rather exotic location in space, and between the mirror and the Earth is… wait for it… youre going to hate this lol… a naturally occurring closed timelike curve! See, I told you youd hate it lol.
