Seeing the past: A somewhat realistic idea

[Zageron]

Personally, I'm completely against the belief that time travel will ever be possible. However, I think that viewing the past will!

Topic:
Think of it this way.
- Scientists develop warp speed, or a speed that surpasses that of light. (In the aspect of human flesh being torn to shreds at such a high speed let us say that we create a robot, space ship, strong enough to withstand the pressures of warp.)
- Scientists also develop a telescope powerful enough to see earth from a great distance, and at a great resolution (enough to see individual grains of rice).

Now, travelling at faster than the speed of light one would be racing against the time it takes for an image, light, to reach it's destination. So let us say this robot was equipped with the warp drive, and telescope.

It is then sent in a single direction for 20,000 light years. (Of course traveling at faster than the speed of light means it would reach it's destination MUCH sooner. Let us say... 20 years.)

Discussion:
Do you think that this telescope equipped robot could then capture footage, if aimed directly at earth, of things that happened 20,000 years in the past?

Now if you say yes, you would also say it is pointless because after seeing 20,000 years of time 20,000 years has passed, making the information gathered useless to it's original "gatherers". (Seeing as they are dead 19,9xx odd years)
But, what if the robot could travel at warp speed, back toward earth, keeping a direct focus on the activities of earth's light. By doing so it could capture footage at... 1,000 times the speed. When it returned home it could simply be slowed down by 1,000 times.

Of course the camera, or recording device, would have to be able to record about 3,000 frames per second, ... I could go on about this but you get the point.

Ideas? Disagreements? Do you think it would work? (Of course lets presume that no obstacles or obstructions get in the way of earth's light or the robots trajectory.)