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by martinko 1385 days ago
> I can say, we will never know what the first human that got to North America had for lunch on their 20th birthday, and I think that’s as true as it could reasonably be.

if there is a large mirror a few hundred light years away we might be able to see his lunch in the reflection ;)

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Not necessarily. The signal-to-noise ratio drops the farther you get away.