Breaking News! Time Traveller goes back in Time to attend Chaplin Premiere!

[Tref]

http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z1/Tref_foto/104800-time-traveller-3.jpg

... an Irish independent filmmaker has gone public with what he says is footage of a time traveller caught walking through a scene on a recent DVD release of Charlie Chaplin's 1928 film, The Circus.

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To read the article, click [URL="http://www.news.com.au/technology/could-time-traveller-caught-on-film-in-the-circus-mean-future-day-has-arrived/story-e6frfro0-1225944037896"]here (http://www.news.com.au/technology/could-time-traveller-caught-on-film-in-the-circus-mean-future-day-has-arrived/story-e6frfro0-1225944037896#ixzz13ZzyFQZg)

To see the clip, click here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6a4T2tJaSU)

[Moonliner]

Oh pluuzzeeee.

Like a time traveler wouldn't be using Bluetooth.

[DreadPirateRoberts]

Some good viral marketing there.

[Moonliner]

I also wonder if he/she knows this guy (http://forgetomori.com/2010/fortean/time-traveler-caught-in-museum-photo/).

http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/imperfectclarity/kuArIyyepHyyHbrnbCCfdHcIaDeEagBsJtcfCkJFvfvmuEJbmt AkxhCEwGFA/media_httpforgetomori_xBtrf.jpg

[JWBear]

Gee... This sounds familiar somehow... (http://www.loungeoftomorrow.com/LoT/showpost.php?p=335642&postcount=2063)

The consensus on Snopes is that she is holding an early electronic hearing aid. They were available in the 20's, and about the size of a cigarette pack.

[JWBear]

I also wonder if he/she knows this guy (http://forgetomori.com/2010/fortean/time-traveler-caught-in-museum-photo/).

http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/imperfectclarity/kuArIyyepHyyHbrnbCCfdHcIaDeEagBsJtcfCkJFvfvmuEJbmt AkxhCEwGFA/media_httpforgetomori_xBtrf.jpg

The article you linked to debunks it being a timetraveler.

[Moonliner]

The article you linked to debunks it being a timetraveler.

I really need an irony emoticon.

[Gn2Dlnd]

The article you linked to debunks it being a timetraveler.

NO IT DOESN'T!!!! That article is full of "maybes" and "probablies" and "most likelies." NO PROOF AT ALL THAT THESE AREN'T TIME TRAVELERS!!!!

Happy day after Time Travel Day (http://www.google.com/#hl=en&expIds=17259,24416,24472,26095,26562,26637,27060,2 7147,27182,27270,27283,27293&sugexp=ldymls&xhr=t&q=time+travel+day&cp=14&pf=p&sclient=psy&safe=off&aq=f&aqi=g4g-o1&aql=&oq=time+travel+da&gs_rfai=&pbx=1&fp=9a951961ff9ba31d)! :D

[Gn2Dlnd]

Oh pluuzzeeee.



Irony tag? I'm still trying to make sense of this.

[Moonliner]

Irony tag? I'm still trying to make sense of this.

I was casting dispersions on the idea of a time traveler being in the Chaplin film by relating it to another example of a supposed time traveler. One that had been thoroughly debunked in the very article I linked it to. Only to have it pointed out to me that it had been debunked.

The "bluetooth" comment was pretty much the same idea. What's the term for taking an argument to an extreme in order to make a point?

[Gn2Dlnd]

I made it worse! Nooooo, silly! I was referring to your creative spelling of the word, "puhleeze!" I italicized "this," and I'm overpronouncing the word as I type it, how could you not get that?

[Moonliner]

Good! I thought you we being awfully dense. Glad we finally figured it was me not you.

Oh wait....

[Moonliner]

This thread does make we wonder, what would it take to convince you a time traveler was captured on film in 1928?

Assuming they were trying to blend in (so no waving "Hillary in 2012" signs) what would you look for?

Digital watch, an LED? The same person 50 or 100 years apart?

Would finding a odd bit of clothing, like a modern looking baseball cap be enough?

Huh. I might have a new hobby. Sneaking into various archives and planting photo-shopped documents for people to find years later....

[Alex]

What's the term for taking an argument to an extreme in order to make a point?

Reductio ad absurdum.

[JWBear]

I was casting dispersions on the idea of a time traveler being in the Chaplin film by relating it to another example of a supposed time traveler. One that had been thoroughly debunked in the very article I linked it to. Only to have it pointed out to me that it had been debunked.

The "bluetooth" comment was pretty much the same idea. What's the term for taking an argument to an extreme in order to make a point?

I didn't catch that. Sorry. I'm sick; my brain is all muddled.

[Moonliner]

While I do not accept the central premise of the individual in question being a time traveler, it was interesting to see that transvestites have been around on Hollywood blvd. since at least the 20's.


Wait a second..... Time Travel, Transvestite, movies, Is that..... :eek:

[Alex]

Since practical time travel would violate much of what we believe to be true about the fundamental rules of the universe the first question would be how would you convince me that a photo that seems to contain irrefutable evidence of time travel wasn't a fake.

And assuming they're trying to blend in, it would be hard to say what would be proof because anything to obvious as a digital watch you'd have to wonder how they could be so stupid to leave it so visible.

One thing that comes to mind as something more likely to slip notice would be a polio vaccination scar (though that would place the time traveler as from a very specific future time). But that probably wouldn't be clear enough in most photographs to be certain of what it was. In a validated audio recording I imagine the occasional anachronistic form of speech couldn't help but slip in.

[Gn2Dlnd]

While I do not accept the central premise of the individual in question being a time traveler, it was interesting to see that transvestites have been around on Hollywood blvd. since at least the 20's.


At least? Puhleeze! (see what I did there?)

Trannys in Hollywood could be a 14 episode Ken Burton documentary series!

[flippyshark]

I looks to me like she's holding on to the rim of her glasses to steady them. (Cheap prop glasses are a pretty commonplace bane to actors.)

[JWBear]

This is not a scene from the movie. It's from footage of crowds outside the theater at the premier.

[flippyshark]

Ah. I'll amend that to "cheap eyewear is a commonplace bane to humanity."