# Coould this work? How to see 2,000,000 years ito the past.
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/coould-this-work-how-to-see-2-000-000-years-ito-the-past/160325
**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [September 13, 2010, 8:22pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/coould-this-work-how-to-see-2-000-000-years-ito-the-past/160325 "2010-09-13T20:22:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@JDMSIR](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JDMSIR)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2010, 8:22pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/coould-this-work-how-to-see-2-000-000-years-ito-the-past/160325/1 "2010-09-13T20:22:25Z")
That would be great if it were possible, its fun thinking about it. Discuss.
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### Author:  [@dirtye30](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/dirtye30)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2010, 8:27pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/coould-this-work-how-to-see-2-000-000-years-ito-the-past/160325/2 "2010-09-13T20:27:33Z")
wheres the treadmill?
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### Author:  [@Mixmastermike](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Mixmastermike)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2010, 8:34pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/coould-this-work-how-to-see-2-000-000-years-ito-the-past/160325/3 "2010-09-13T20:34:58Z")
You would have to wait 1,000,000 million years after the mirror was in place for the light to reflect back.
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### Author:  [@ZOMGVTEK](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ZOMGVTEK)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2010, 8:44pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/coould-this-work-how-to-see-2-000-000-years-ito-the-past/160325/4 "2010-09-13T20:44:14Z")
If you could put a mirror 1 MILLION light years away, why not just put a damn person or camera there?
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### Author:  [@L8APEX1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/L8APEX1)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2010, 8:44pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/coould-this-work-how-to-see-2-000-000-years-ito-the-past/160325/5 "2010-09-13T20:44:20Z")
That would be like staring into the convex mirror on the trucker in front of you to see what he is doing
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### Author:  [@JDMSIR](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JDMSIR)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2010, 8:45pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/coould-this-work-how-to-see-2-000-000-years-ito-the-past/160325/6 "2010-09-13T20:45:47Z")
Thinkig about how crazy it would be to see in the past with a fucking telescope.
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### Author:  [@Jam](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jam)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2010, 10:20pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/coould-this-work-how-to-see-2-000-000-years-ito-the-past/160325/7 "2010-09-13T22:20:43Z")
it would be awesome
i also love how the satellite reflection is pointing at what looks like the middle east. wonder why :gotme:
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### Author:  [@Motocrossx23](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Motocrossx23)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2010, 12:02am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/coould-this-work-how-to-see-2-000-000-years-ito-the-past/160325/8 "2010-09-14T00:02:35Z")
Guarantee the plane doesn’t take off.
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### Author:  [@38stang](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/38stang)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2010, 5:23am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/coould-this-work-how-to-see-2-000-000-years-ito-the-past/160325/9 "2010-09-14T05:23:00Z")
But where do you plug in the flux capacitor?
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### Author:  [@OfficerK](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/OfficerK)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2010, 5:28am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/coould-this-work-how-to-see-2-000-000-years-ito-the-past/160325/10 "2010-09-14T05:28:59Z")
It’s all relative.
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### Author:  [@pirite](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/pirite)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2010, 5:32am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/coould-this-work-how-to-see-2-000-000-years-ito-the-past/160325/11 "2010-09-14T05:32:47Z")
> [@Motocrossx23](#):
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> Guarantee the plane doesn’t take off.
👏
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### Author:  [@theblue](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/theblue)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2010, 7:12am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/coould-this-work-how-to-see-2-000-000-years-ito-the-past/160325/12 "2010-09-14T07:12:00Z")
how is this any different than if I just make a movie with my iphone and somebody watches it 2 million years from now?
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### Author:  [@Gl1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Gl1)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2010, 7:16am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/coould-this-work-how-to-see-2-000-000-years-ito-the-past/160325/13 "2010-09-14T07:16:41Z")
it would take at LEAST 1 million years to get the mirror there, even traveling at the speed of light. then it would take 1 million more years for the reflection to make it back to earth. might as well bury a time capsule.
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### Author:  [@LAFENGAS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LAFENGAS)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2010, 7:35am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/coould-this-work-how-to-see-2-000-000-years-ito-the-past/160325/14 "2010-09-14T07:35:32Z")
this concept is severely flawed. to the point where i don’t know how the kid made such a great conceptual sketch with crayons.
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### Author:  [@Paulo](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Paulo)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2010, 7:49am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/coould-this-work-how-to-see-2-000-000-years-ito-the-past/160325/15 "2010-09-14T07:49:52Z")
While I agree it’s flawed, the concept is still valid.
It’s the same as saying that the stars we see at night are what was happening millions of years ago because of how far they are.
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### Author:  [@Gl1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Gl1)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2010, 7:58am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/coould-this-work-how-to-see-2-000-000-years-ito-the-past/160325/16 "2010-09-14T07:58:50Z")
If we could find some kind of reflective surface to see our refection in, then it could be a possibility. Maybe we should be putting a huger mirror into space so some alien species ca see their reflection in it?
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### Author:  [@OfficerK](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/OfficerK)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2010, 8:26am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/coould-this-work-how-to-see-2-000-000-years-ito-the-past/160325/17 "2010-09-14T08:26:17Z")
I am seeing into the past right now…light is so slow.
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### Author:  [@Viper966](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Viper966)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2010, 9:19am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/coould-this-work-how-to-see-2-000-000-years-ito-the-past/160325/18 "2010-09-14T09:19:07Z")
The light would be too diffused by the time it went there and back… and lets hope nothing got in between the mirror and the earth EVER…
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### Author:  [@Willybeen](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Willybeen)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2010, 9:24am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/coould-this-work-how-to-see-2-000-000-years-ito-the-past/160325/19 "2010-09-14T09:24:59Z")
“we dont have the technology” -tenacious d.
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### Author:  [@ultradriver10000](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ultradriver10000)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2010, 9:25am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/coould-this-work-how-to-see-2-000-000-years-ito-the-past/160325/20 "2010-09-14T09:25:39Z")
> [@Paulo](#):
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> While I agree it’s flawed, the concept is still valid.
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> It’s the same as saying that the stars we see at night are what was happening millions of years ago because of how far they are.
The stars we see is light from the “past”. If a star was to die we’d still see the light from it for x amount of years. The problem with this is that the light would be diffused, but if you could somehow get the light to not diffuse yes you’d technically see the past. This would be the same as watching a video though but you wouldn’t be able to rewind or pause it. LoL What a waste.
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