Proof of time travel?

edited November 2010 in Chit chat
A woman is seen at a premier of a Charlie Chaplin movie, in 1920, talking into a MOBILE PHONE!!!

http://uk.movies.yahoo.com/blog/article/57334/time-traveller-spotted-at-chaplin-premiere.html

Well, it looks more like a bloke to me. And I'm not exactly convinced its a mobile phone, or even anything there at all.

Still, it's clearer than 99% of the photos of video that convince [/strike]lunat[/ strike] reasonable people that Big Foot/The Loch Ness Monster/fairies/aliens who fly around near bars at night in America and abduct drunken people to probe them and then release them to tell the world (those daft enough to listen) their "story".

Anyway, watch the film, it's an amusing "Yeah right" thing to show your mates.
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  • edited October 2010
    come off it, she's just scratching her face. besides mobile phones wouldn't work back then without the relevant network.

    if time travel is possible, how come we never meet anyone from the future? :-o
  • edited October 2010
    sceptics say that it is just a video-montage...
  • edited October 2010
    Thats awesomeness.

    Seriously. I don't care if she is or isn't, the suggestion alone is great!

    Oh that ones going to keep people aguing for years! :lol:

    Hey, maybe she's that woman who tried to warn the government about the hindenburg blowing up when she saw it in a vision of the future? maybe she saw people on mobile phones in a vision and was copting what they were doing?

    OR... maybe she's just some old loony who wonders round talking into a shell she found on the beach?
  • edited October 2010
    The "mobile phone" thing is an example of confirmation bias. If we see someone with their hand to the side of their head holding something, we assume it's a mobile so that's how it looks to us. In 1928 (when the film was shot) they would have assumed she'd cut herself and was holding a cloth to stem the bleeding or (more likely) she had toothache and was holding something there to soothe it. I'd go with the latter.
  • edited October 2010
    aaww... shame Cornish is banned... he would have loved this. :lol:
  • edited October 2010
    see here....

    http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=19984&page=199

    grey key mentioned it there...and then I posted a lovely pic of some other supposed time tourist...go on, click that bit above....

    Oh, and it's not a mobile phone...it's a walkie talkie... :lol:
  • edited October 2010
    Who was she talking to ?
    Did she travel with another Mobile phone bearing friend.
    Oh and whilst we're at it did they take a few transmitters/receiver antenaes with them back in time.
  • edited October 2010
    murtceps wrote: »
    Who was she talking to ?
    Did she travel with another Mobile phone bearing friend.
    Oh and whilst we're at it did they take a few transmitters/receiver antenaes with them back in time.

    nah, just needs a quick zap with a sonic screwdriver and your good for temporal roaming. :p
  • edited October 2010
    ghbearman wrote: »
    come off it, she's just scratching her face. besides mobile phones wouldn't work back then without the relevant network.

    if time travel is possible, how come we never meet anyone from the future? :-o

    The absence of a conventional cellphone network is irrelevant, since the time-traveller would obviously not be using a cellphone, it's some sort of transmitter, yes, but presumably single link directly to the mother-time machine, or at least the home base, almost certainly in the same time zone as the time traveller, as temporal communications would probably be fraught with difficulties.

    On the other hand, the hand that's not got eight pints of alcohol in it's blood stream, it's just an old film showing someone scrathing their head or holding their hat or straightening their wig, or perhaps it's just some eccentric old person clutching his/her ear and talking to themselves.

    I wouldn't trust the judgment of anyone who truly thought that this was evidence of time travel, I just posted the link as it's interesting since (a) it poses an interesting (albeit not too serious question - is (s)he a time traveller), and (b) it's a much better image that the black shape on a grey image that conspiracy theorists usually claim is absolute proof of Dracula/aliens from Saturn/government made military eighteen foot high androids/leprechauns that warned us all years ago about the impending financial mess the banks we getting us in to (but would we listen? Those poor leprechauns might as well of not bothered)/eighth century texts that predict the future with total accuracy (and yet, their meaning only ever becomes clear after the events take place, before hand none of their absolute believers can interpret the texts and say exactly what they mean..../etc.

    I do think it's fairly interesting, but I don't attach the slightest bit of credibility to it. I can't say that time travel is impossible, as I don't know, though I think it probably is, going by both what far cleverer people than me say, and also by the fact that I don't know of any timetravellers coming back from the future, although I realise that those two points don't exactly constitute definite, 100% solid proof.

    But that video is far to inconclusive and open to other interpretations, and indeed the fact that it's taken this long for anyone to notice it shows strongly how weak it is as evidence of any anachronism. Plus if (s)he was a time traveller, then even if that person needed to use a handheld communicator, surely they'd not only have not done so on camera, but not in front of anyone at all, and certainly not in the open street?

    Still an interesting thought, though, isn't it? Looking through an old photograph and seeing something that couldn't possibly have been around at that time? It would be weird, and a little unnerving, but very interesting.
  • edited October 2010
    I wonder how George's movies are selling now?
  • edited October 2010
    ewgf wrote: »
    as temporal communications would probably be fraught with difficulties.

    if you can move matter backwards and forwards in time, I doubt moving radio waves would pose much of a technological problem ;)
  • edited October 2010
    I've just popped back to that moment in time and I'm sorry to say that it's not a mobile phone. Bah. Ah well, we can dream.
  • edited October 2010
    I want to find a game! In this game you were a cowboy, but in the future, you could ride a saddle and it fly! I remember a map with gold mine... or something like this.. it was 20 years ago ..its hard to remember

    I dont know the egzact terminology but in this game you see your movements beside, in the same way as super mario, but here you can move to the left to! :D
  • edited October 2010
    Legjobban wrote: »
    I want to find a game! In this game you were a cowboy, but in the future, you could ride a saddle and it fly! I remember a map with gold mine... or something like this.. it was 20 years ago ..its hard to remember

    I dont know the egzact terminology but in this game you see your movements beside, in the same way as super mario, but here you can move to the left to! :D

    Wrong thread and btw ...
    Don't ask the same question 3 times!
  • edited October 2010
    Haha, just been on the last thread and seen the Western question... I thought, "eh? I wonder why Mister Beep has said that in reply." Then I see that the Time travel thread has been updated and I look to see what's new.... Only to find this! Wow, another example of time-travel! Now it all makes sense. Legjobban must be another Sam Beckett.
  • edited October 2010
    Although I'm a bit skeptical, here we have more 'proofs' of time-travels...

    Moscow underground:
    tn_8uz55051.jpg

    In one of the paintings in the picture there's an interesting thing...
    tn_KZp55097.jpg

    KZp55097.jpg

    errrm, maybe talking with a mobile phone while working with a notebook?????
    ... or maybe shaving in front of a mirror? :-)

    senseless, in both cases.

    Salamanca, Spain:

    If you visit the cathedral (built c XVI - XVIII) , you can see in one of the main doors:
    ZRX55154.jpg

    an astronaut???????
  • edited October 2010
    it seems this charlie chaplin video clip is all over the internet atm. there's suggestions it could be one of these

    http://hearing.siemens.com/sg/10-about-us/01-our-history/milestones.jsp?year=1924
  • edited October 2010
    Although I'm a bit skeptical, here we have more 'proofs' of time-travels...

    Moscow underground:
    tn_8uz55051.jpg

    In one of the paintings in the picture there's an interesting thing...
    tn_KZp55097.jpg

    KZp55097.jpg

    errrm, maybe talking with a mobile phone while working with a notebook?????
    ... or maybe shaving in front of a mirror? :-)

    senseless, in both cases.

    Salamanca, Spain:

    If you visit the cathedral (built c XVI - XVIII) , you can see in one of the main doors:
    ZRX55154.jpg

    an astronaut???????

    He's probably talking to the woman in the Charlie Chaplin movie:-)
    Every time I read that the oldest person in the world has died, I have to do a quick check to see it isn't ME..........
  • edited October 2010
    Looks like she's just hiding her face, she's a bit camera shy.
  • edited October 2010
    def chris wrote: »
    it seems this charlie chaplin video clip is all over the internet atm. there's suggestions it could be one of these

    http://hearing.siemens.com/sg/10-about-us/01-our-history/milestones.jsp?year=1924

    Or just an old-fashioned compact ear-trumpet.
    Joefish
    - IONIAN-GAMES.com -
  • edited October 2010
    That famous rabbit and dog duo, Sam & Max, seem to have done a bit of time-travelling...

    Here they are now....
    Sam--Max-XBLA-Xbox-Live-Arcade.jpg

    ..and here they are on a church built around 1140AD....

    461px-Kilpeck_hound_%26_hare_corbel.jpg


    ..and Mickey Mouse was found during the excavation of an Iron Age settlement that's around 1100 years old...

    Musse_140_79745a.jpg

    :lol:
  • edited October 2010
    ... and what about the "mysterious" hieroglyphs in Temple of Seti I, in Abydos, Egypt?

    El-Templo-de-Abydos2.jpg

    an hellicopter, a tank and a submarine?????

    I don't know if it is true or not, but as somenone said before, the suggestion alone is great!

    As for the Chaplin film, I think it's a fake. I have the rule of not believe most stuff that comes from Internet. Maybe viral marketing? a mobile company?
  • edited October 2010
    ... and what about the "mysterious" hieroglyphs in Temple of Seti I, in Abydos, Egypt?

    El-Templo-de-Abydos2.jpg

    an hellicopter, a tank and a submarine?????

    I don't know if it is true or not, but as somenone said before, the suggestion alone is great!

    As for the Chaplin film, I think it's a fake. I have the rule of not believe most stuff that comes from Internet. Maybe viral marketing? a mobile company?

    I think that the Seti I temple is a viral marketing ploy for a munitions manufacturer, they just simply travelled back in time and put it there, it just proves, don't believe everything you see, or read;-)
    Every time I read that the oldest person in the world has died, I have to do a quick check to see it isn't ME..........
  • edited October 2010
    Nice shot, little mouse! :lol:
  • edited October 2010
    So this person has the technology to travel, and make phone calls, through time - but they've never heard of Bluetooth headset?!?

    Bollocks! :p
  • edited October 2010
    This is the best evidence of time travel:

    http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/member.php?u=2

    Anonymous, who joined this forum in 1978!
  • edited October 2010
    ghbearman wrote: »
    This is the best evidence of time travel:

    http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/member.php?u=2

    Anonymous, who joined this forum in 1978!

    That's just a unix date fail. It stores time / date as one number (seconds since 01/01/70) :)

    This is an interesting thread though :) , have read with interest.
  • One i thing i don't understand about time travel. If the terminator had succeeded in killing John Connor then the resistance would've failed so the terminator wouldn't be sent to kill John Connor so he'd be alive? Therefore he'd command the resistance and a terminator would be sent back to kill him and so the resistance would fail... And on and on and ariston...
  • edited October 2010
    ah, I don't understand Unix. :-?
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