Buzz,
Agreed on those points as the light that we see from the stars left there many years ago and as you said they may not even exist any more.
And how do you get around the theory that nothing can exceed the speed if light? This has always made me wonder as all of our short history has been filled with that can't be done and it was. Men can't fly and they do. In airplanes or other means but taken literally, men can't fly like Superman. Also the nothing can ever go faster than 100 MPH.
I have studied several theories about why nothing can exceed the speed of light from the fact the mass would become so huge to the fact that if you reached the speed of light there wouldn't be anything left to give the extra little boost top go past it.
Please explain in a little more detail how a person on another planet with a scope could look back here and see things in real time. Unless you are using the time delay in the light from there to here, which I still believe would depend on when they looked back.
Ron
