Could Aliens See Dinosaurs on Earth with a Telescope?
Cool Stuff Daily
Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff
4.6 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:53.5 | On today's episode, we're going to start with dinosaurs, |
| 0:57.0 | jump to aliens, and somehow end up with a telescope the size of a solar neighborhood. |
| 1:03.4 | As we ask the question, could aliens looking through a telescope see dinosaurs on Earth? |
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| 1:15.6 | That question, if aliens lived 66 million light years away, could they see dinosaurs on Earth? |
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