slightly going off-topic but I've always found
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Given that light takes an extraordinary amount of time to reach the planet you are looking back in time when you see stars in the sky. Many of these stars may have been long extinguished and you are watching recordings of their death. Time is relative and space is a living, breathing portal.
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fascinating. I remember the physics lesson where our teacher just dropped "theoretically we could all die any second" because of the time it'd take for some supernova or something to appear to us. That was a fun night's sleep