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The Earth is 4.5 billion years old. It is foolish to think that we are the first and only advanced civilization to have existed here. But there's a huge problem in trying to discover past civilizations. All traces of civilizations, no matter how advanced, disappear in about 250,000 to 1 million years. Regardless of the scale of the civilization, everything gets degraded and buried to undetectable levels in that time. All our millions of miles of roads, 100+ story skyscrapers, stadiums able to hold 100k people, cruise ships that can transport and feed 7000 people will be buried and become virtually undetectable in less than 0.2% of the history of Earth.
Now let's suppose we develop the ability to send objects back in time. How would we use that tech to truly learn the history of the planet we live on without changing the timeline? Anything that sits on the surface of the earth is out of the question. For one, it would only record its immediate vicinity and two, it would get destroyed and buried in just a couple of thousand years. And worse, if the object was ever discovered, it would change the timeline we live in.
The solution is so obvious, it hit me like a brick this morning. Send a self orbit correcting satellite 4 billion years into the past that takes a few pictures every year while orbiting the Earth. Billions of frames later, you have the entire history of the planet!
Think about it. A satellite will not interfere in any way with the timeline until a civilization is advanced enough to discover its existence, which at that point, doesn't matter anyway. A satellite is able to observe everything that is happening anywhere on Earth so if a civilization appears somewhere then dies, you will be able to see how and where it happened. The best part is that you can send the satellite, then immediately download the data because while only a couple of minutes have passed for you, the satellite is 4 billion years old. There's literally no better way to discover the true history of our planet and the people that came before us.
Posted by psy_raven
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It makes sense that the mysterious Black Knight satellite is a creation of our own. When we discover time travel, it would be the most sensical way to learn the history of our planet. Also, I am confused about the rules of this sub. Do I need to actually submit an SS when I wrote an entire explanation to my theory?
NASA made it, since it is just a thermal blanket from the STS-88 shuttle mission that they lost in 1998.
[https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/photo.pl?mission=STS088&roll=724&frame=66](https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/photo.pl?mission=STS088&roll=724&frame=66) NASA photo of the blanket drifting away from 1998. Black Knight believers use this photo but flip and zoom it.
Nasa report from 1999 about the mission mentions the blanket:
[https://www.orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/newsletter/pdfs/ODQNv4i1.pdf](https://www.orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/newsletter/pdfs/ODQNv4i1.pdf)
>During the first EVA two other objects were accidentally lost: a slidewire carrier (3.9 kg) and a foot platform Worksite Interface (WIF) with attached tether (< 2 kg). Fortunately, the slidewire carrier had already served its purpose, and the WIF was one of six such devices, of which only four were needed for the STS-88 mission. On the second EVA an insulation blanket also inadvertently drifted away.
Look at Beatriz Villarroel research.