[The Cajun]

Over the next few million years much of Orion's dust will be slowly destroyed by the very stars now being formed, or dispersed into the Galaxy.

If the human race last that long and the ongoing pictures survive, somebody's going to have a heck of a time lapse movie to watch.

[SunkenCiv]

One big attraction to FTL travel would be to “time travel” into “the future” — it would enable a time lapse video to be made well in excess of real time. Frame one from here, frame two from one light year, frame three from two light years, etc, until the gap is nearly closed. :’)

[TheOldLady]

Our lives are like brief candles compared to the light years it takes for these images to reach Earth.

Now would be a good time to start the recordings of these images for that time-lapse movie in the far future.

In the meantime, it’s 24° and snowing lightly. It has backed off quite a bit from the seeming blizzard earlier.