What if poop particles from a fart traveled faster than sound? You’d be standing across the room from somebody, the smell would hit your nose, you’d look at the person suspiciously, and before you had time to say anything: PFFFttttttt. Kind of like thunder and lightning. Maybe you could even count the seconds after you smelled a fart to figure out how far away the farter is.
So dinosaurs went extinct about 65 million years ago. Picture an advanced alien species living on a planet that is 65 million light years away, and these aliens have incredibly advanced telescopes that allow them to see with such detail that they could spot an ant on planet earth. What would these aliens see, if they were looking right now? They’d see dinasaurs roaming the earth!
This is why every so often you’ll see me lift my head to the sky and scream, “The dinasaurs are extinct! Humans are now the dominant species!” (just in case they can hear me. And, ummmmm, just in case sound travels faster than the speed of light….okay maybe I should rethink that.)
Anyway, so really if you think about it, although dinosaurs have long since died, and all of us will die, a “photograph” is theoretically sent into space for all time, a tiny wave that will travel through space forever. And YOU’RE in it.
(just watch out for black holes)
“what, did the poodle give you that one?”