Excellent. You amuse me.

The win is strong in this one.

I recall a little of quantum physics... could this cause a causality violation? I.e. the guys five light years away decide to randomly smash all the detectors halfway after the photons start arriving, and back on earth suddenly you get nothing but wave pattern. Doesn't that imply that information that the detectors will have stopped in five years travelled faster than light (and therefore back in time) to you?