NASA: We’ve been getting a lot of footage of you being cringy in high school.
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But only after 10 years. You couldn't see anything that wasn't visible from the viewpoint of the mirror beforehand, as from earth's point of view the mirror isn't there yet. And if you're there anyway… you can just look at Earth with the craft that's on the position of the mirror already.
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You can already do this with the light bent around black holes, it's just a bit hard to make out the image... make sure you wipe down your black hole with a damp cloth, you don't want a smudgey black hole
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and if you look through the butt end of the telescope, you can see in the future
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It'd actually be cool as fuck if we could make some kind of Paycheck-style time machine that lets you see into the past by simply looking at light reflected off other celestial objects.
It could theoretically work looking backwards, but not forwards as it was used in the film. Of course, it'd have to have insane resolution for it to be like a video of what happened on the planet and not just a dot of light.
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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.
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Big brother called, you weren’t supposed to leak this hack.
If only they did work into the future then they could have stopped you from spilling the beans.
Yeah, but it'd take us strictly longer than N years to place a mirror N light years away form Earth, so kinda useless.
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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.
Or youd see 20 years into the future... Let that one bake your noodle for a spell...
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