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You need to read 'The Light of Other Days', detailing the use of microscopic wormhole lenses to observe ancient earth: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Light_of
by fsiefken 14y ago
You need to read 'The Light of Other Days', detailing the use of microscopic wormhole lenses to observe ancient earth: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Light_of_Other_Days http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Light_of_Other_Days
- geuis 14y agoGood book. I still have the paperback on my shelf.
- shill 14y agoI had an idea to write a story about this when I was a kid. In my version, planets made of pure mercury were sought by detectives for their potential crime-solving reflections of Earth at various points in history.
- salgernon 14y agoThis book has come up several times in several recent (unrelated) hacker news threads. I find the prescience of the privacy concerns (and how people react to never ever having privacy again) relevant to today's world of drones and oversharing via social media. And of course it's just got that good Clark science tone.
- comex 14y agoThis is really off topic, but once - I think I was 13 or 14 - I found a book just lying around somewhere at what passed for my summer camp. I read the whole thing; I guess I must have tried to return it, but I don't remember that part. The book was interesting enough that I wanted to read it again at some point, but I had long since forgotten its name. This is that book. I guess I could have found the name of the book by actively asking around, but still - I love the coincidence. Thank you.