[farico]

I don't get it - even if you use a mirror, the distance is still the same. Light needs to go to the mirror, reflect and come back to your eyes, there's no difference if you're n lightyears away or just n/2 and use a mirror.

me ------| <- mirror

me ---|--- me

Do I get it wrong?

[rkalla]

farico, you are exactly right, and that is the point. You just add mirrors to make the distance needed shorter and shorter.

I was just taking the example to a logical absurdity to reason that we could potentially make a small array of millions of mirrors, here on earth, that could see back in time in "real-time" if you pointed it at something.

But as I soon realized, this is basically a video camera =(