Okay, I've just thought this after wondering what I'd be able to use the Endeavor telescope for if I got one - but it might just work:
Once mankind has Faster Than Light technology (or can put a something really far away and control it instantly) we can solve crimes with nothing more than a big-ass telescope.
Imagine this:
A crime occurs - lets not be specific and just call it Crime X as not to get involved in any major controversy by raking up things that have happened or by accidentally predicting something like The Simpsons have done so many times it looks like Matt Groening is a time traveler.
So Crime X has happened and people have theories but no one knows for sure what happened... well, no one but the criminals who committed the crime but they are probably dead, executed by whoever got them to commit the crime in the first place.
So, really bad thing, no one knows how it happened exactly they just know it happened. Cue the good ship Clouseau, the police forces Faster Than Light ship with a big ass telescope strapped to its back. We know where the crime happened, and probably about when it happened too.
So you just fly Clouseau out far enough from earth and watch with the telescope waiting for those light rays to reach it. The inspectors line the 'scope up with where it went down and watch the event unfold, and then where the perpetrators went. If the crime ended at that scene, the recording of the event would give enough clues as to where they should aim the telescope at next and fly a little further out and record some more... Before too long Crime X is solved and the crew of Clouseau come home covered in glory!
Doesn't have to be a FTL ship either - Mars is about 21 minutes away by radio (depending on where it is in its orbit), which means it's 21 mins away by light too. If we had a big enough telescope sat on Mars we could see back in time 21 minutes - if we could come up with Quantum Communications to cover that distance instantly we would be able to tell the operators where on the planet to keep an eye on.
I, NaffNaffBobFace, have solved crime.
Unless its cloudy.
Once mankind has Faster Than Light technology (or can put a something really far away and control it instantly) we can solve crimes with nothing more than a big-ass telescope.
Imagine this:
A crime occurs - lets not be specific and just call it Crime X as not to get involved in any major controversy by raking up things that have happened or by accidentally predicting something like The Simpsons have done so many times it looks like Matt Groening is a time traveler.
So Crime X has happened and people have theories but no one knows for sure what happened... well, no one but the criminals who committed the crime but they are probably dead, executed by whoever got them to commit the crime in the first place.
So, really bad thing, no one knows how it happened exactly they just know it happened. Cue the good ship Clouseau, the police forces Faster Than Light ship with a big ass telescope strapped to its back. We know where the crime happened, and probably about when it happened too.
So you just fly Clouseau out far enough from earth and watch with the telescope waiting for those light rays to reach it. The inspectors line the 'scope up with where it went down and watch the event unfold, and then where the perpetrators went. If the crime ended at that scene, the recording of the event would give enough clues as to where they should aim the telescope at next and fly a little further out and record some more... Before too long Crime X is solved and the crew of Clouseau come home covered in glory!
Doesn't have to be a FTL ship either - Mars is about 21 minutes away by radio (depending on where it is in its orbit), which means it's 21 mins away by light too. If we had a big enough telescope sat on Mars we could see back in time 21 minutes - if we could come up with Quantum Communications to cover that distance instantly we would be able to tell the operators where on the planet to keep an eye on.
I, NaffNaffBobFace, have solved crime.
Unless its cloudy.
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