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Looking out at galaxies wondering if they are also looking at civilizations of the past and present that are thriving like they are.

Eerie but odds are in your favor.

What if.. I was born in one of those places instead?

Maybe we were…

Might it be possible to see an image of the Milky Way itself, diverted back on to us with sufficiently strong gravitational lensing?

Not only that, we might be able to see events from our past. There was a SciFi short story on that. Can't recall if it's Asimov or Philip K. Dick.

for few thousand out of a few billion years just like us?

and sometime between when the current light hits us and now?