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Originally posted by Sicilian Smaug
Do you think in our life time, their will be a telescope powerful enough to peer right through the atmosphere of planets orbiting another star? Maybe we could watch other life forms this way, without interfering with them or their way of life, and risking annihilation or enslavement by said aliens.
No, but we do have psychedelic drugs that are far cheaper and have more or less the same effect.

You might even get that alien invasion feeling. The good thing, it wears off after awhile so you go on a new trip straight after!

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Originally posted by Sicilian Smaug
Maybe we could watch other life forms this way, without interfering with them or their way of life...
The way they used to live.

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Originally posted by Sicilian Smaug
Do you think in our life time, their will be a telescope powerful enough to peer right through the atmosphere of planets orbiting another star? Maybe we could watch other life forms this way, without interfering with them or their way of life, and risking annihilation or enslavement by said aliens.
Yes, but the telescope will be on one of our ships orbiting their planet.

BTW, there's a reason God put all the other life forms so far away from us... so we couldn't force our 'democracy' on them. 😲

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Originally posted by mosquitorespect
The way they used to live.
good point everything would be millions of years in the past

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Originally posted by arrakis
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BTW, there's a reason God put all the other life forms so far away from us... so we couldn't force our 'democracy' on them. 😲[/b]
or islam

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Originally posted by General Putzer
or islam
Islam will be wiped out by the Cheney-Bush administration! 😳

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There's a theoretical limit to what one can make out with a telescope based on the wavelength of light and the size of the scope.

http://astrosun2.astro.cornell.edu/academics/courses//astro201/diff_limit.htm

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Originally posted by Sicilian Smaug
Do you think in our life time, their will be a telescope powerful enough to peer right through the atmosphere of planets orbiting another star? Maybe we could watch other life forms this way, without interfering with them or their way of life, and risking annihilation or enslavement by said aliens.
If we had a telescope with an effective size of about 1 billion Km wide, maybe.

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Originally posted by AThousandYoung
There's a theoretical limit to what one can make out with a telescope based on the wavelength of light and the size of the scope.

http://astrosun2.astro.cornell.edu/academics/courses//astro201/diff_limit.htm
So you are saying... Size does matter! 😲

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Originally posted by Sicilian Smaug
Thanks for that. I cant quite make sense of the equation. But I'm guessing it means that the high powered telescope would not see into other planets 🙁
What about High Powered Binoculars?

They might help. 😉😛

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Originally posted by Sicilian Smaug
Do you think in our life time, their will be a telescope powerful enough to peer right through the atmosphere of planets orbiting another star? Maybe we could watch other life forms this way, without interfering with them or their way of life, and risking annihilation or enslavement by said aliens.
Ignore things that we think are impossible for a minute.

What would be cool is if we could get a telescope a few hundred (or more) light years away from earth instantly then we could look into history and find out everything we could want to know and see. I know it is not going to happen but it is interesting to think about, well I think it is. (I know matter can't travel faster then c)