For example if the Betelgeuze system had a planet, with a theoretical large telescope on that planet and looked back at earth. It would see life and civilizations from the 15th century a.d. (~500 light years distance)

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    2 questions:

    1. How would the probes travel faster than the light information from way back when?

    2. How high were you when you guys came up with this idea?

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      1. Who knows! It wasn’t going to be hard sci-fi necessarily, but more food for thought. Not everything in sci-fi has proven scientific stuff behind it. They travel faster than light in Star Trek and Star Wars…

      2. We weren’t, and that’s probably why we didn’t question the idea too much 😅