Don't know why I bothered turning the volume up.

I love how he starts sounding like Filthy Frank.

And?

Then don't do the video as a fucking youtube short?

That's like writing a ted talk on toilet paper.

Thanks! Almost wasted my time.

I wouldn't say scary - A more apt description would be Harrowing.

Seeing people so blissfully unaware of what's all around them, what they're breathing - and what it'll do to them is extremely unsettling.

but that's the point.

Lots of things are now being crudely edited and cut down for the sake of shorts, and then people go and post that crap on reddit.

Because shorts are fucking garbage - they're objectively inferior in every single way.

They're made for devices with less detail control, so no video seeking, no audio control, limited video real estate.

They're made for the sake of the "try to make you swipe for hours and hours" algorithm.

And the single worst thing about them - They're forced on me, I can't avoid them - I try to hide them on youtube but that only "temporarily" hides them from the front page. The youtubers I generally follow now spam shitty shorts too and reddit doesn't let me filter out all youtube shorts.

Shorts, tiktok - all that shit can go burn,

Sure, You'd never find earth though. And you'd need a telescope the size of a planet at least, and even that probably won't be big enough.

Derp, You're right - I meant 5 lightyears away (roughly near proxima centauri, but went with 5 rather than 4.2 because meh) and 10 for the whole journey back and forth.

But you're right, I'll change it! :)

Technically, yes.

Realistically, no.

Have one gigantic galaxy sized & perfectly calibrated refracted mirror 10 lightyears away perpetually focused on us at all times.

Point a gigantic planet sized telescope at it. done, you can now see Earth Live from 10 20 years ago.

You mean the one that gets posted on reddit almost every day, "Think about what we'll know tomorrow"

Yeah, but Time travel is a whole different thing.

People keep regurgitating "yeah but we also didn't think people could fly" Yeah but we knew it was possible, Birds fly. Nothing in the universe travels through time.

Yes "That we know of", but inadvertently, if something like that is so hard to find, it might just give credit to just how outside of the realm of possibility it really is for gigantic, living creatures such as us to do it.

Science fiction and television have made the prospect seem so tangible, when in reality it's a lot like asking "Will we ever be able to shoot giant beams of energy out of our hands and destroy mountains like in Dragon Ball Z?"

The answer is no. Not just because "we don't know how to do it yet" but because it's literally impossible to the point where it doesn't make any sense at all.

Should we just stop trying? Lol no, That's not what I'm saying and that would be ridiculous, I'm saying it's not an active field of study, because the road to get to it either doesn't exist, or is so so so so unimaginably far out of reach, it may as well be impossible.

In the way you're thinking

Short answer: no

Long answer: No, probably not - Obviously we can't say exactly what we'll find out/discover/invent in the future, but from everything we know so far the universe has rigid and strict laws about anything remotely like that.

We don't even know if the "past" or the "Future" exists. We assume just because we have a recollection of places, things and events that they must be somehow tangible or still exist somewhere.

That's a huge assumption - For all we know Time could be like a burning candle, Everything below us is unlit and doesn't exist in time yet and anything above is gone.

And you can't un-light a candle to exactly what it was before. Entropy doesn't work that way.

Depends on the conditions required to allow humans to survive on pluto.

If you're talking every human suddenly being able to withstand -300 degree weather and breath in space etc - Then probably a couple hundred million max.

If you're talking bio-domes or subterranian structures. up to one or two million max probably.

first immediate effect would be a pretty spectacular view - Really depends on a lot of factors like angle/trajectory/velocity of the asteroid.

But more than likely the first few hours, nothing much - but after a short time tidal waves, extreme flooding, possibly even earthquakes. Hard to say exactly but it won't be good.

Then comes the shrapnel, after a few months there will be a pretty significant increase in impacts around the world, how large they'll be and for how long - I have no idea. But some will absolutely spiral down towards us.

After that our rotation might speed up, a day could last significantly less time - Seasons may go out of whack.

The title was obviously intentional.

Proxima Centauri is 4.2 light years away - There's no possible way your math checks out. You would need to be travelling at Light speed the entire length of the trip to get there within 4 years, You're also completely neglecting time required to slow down, which would be significant.

Highly unlikely. It might if we ever get to a point where we discover insanely fast interstellar travel.

But the unfortunate fact is that we do not prioritize discoveries like that. We do not fund the necessary technologies or research anywhere near enough.

We're very much a "oh someone's discovered it? Buy buy buy buy, invest invest invest - Own all the patents so nobody else can profit off of it. Good now we try to fuck everyone we can out of ever using this technology without paying a fortune"

I Don't see it ever happening, We're far more likely to build a bomb out of it somehow and blowing ourselves up.

If I had that money I'd put it towards far more urgent things in my life.