http://www.unexplainable.net/Simply-Unexplainable/Is-This-a-Time-Traveller.shtml Be careful of scriff :-P
HOLY--!!! THE MULTIVERSE EXISTS!!
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Wed Apr 21 2010 11:01 pm #
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I found it off forums while watching Unforgotten Realms.
Thu Apr 22 2010 1:11 am # -
JohnA1nut
MemberI saw something on Ebaumsworld.com. It was a guy who supposedly traveled 20 some years into the future, and met himself. He had (as proof) a cell phone video he took with his older self in the future. Good luck finding it on the site (and if you do, point me to it) I thought you might be interested.
(Doing Therapy)
Thu Apr 22 2010 1:43 am # -
This is me being skeptical.
I think it's unreasonable to suppose that people didn't wear clothes like that in the forties, just because they weren't the primary fashion. They're not really the primary fashion today, but I wear them, and people wore them in the fifties and sixties. The only thing that is questionably anachronistic in the photo is the camera, and the image of the camera is so poor that I couldn't find it in the photo.
Much of the article's thoughts about time travel are poorly considered. If this is multiple dimension theory, then there's no logic to a time traveler making changes to the past as suggested, for the very reasons given: you can prevent Hitler's birth in a new universe, but that doesn't change the events of the universe from which you originated, so you haven't accomplished anything for your own family and friends. If it's fixed time, then the visit's only point would have to be to gather information about the past, and it must be accepted that the one gathering the information has always been there for that purpose. Only if it's replacement theory does it make any sense at all, and unless you accept the popular interpretation of Niven's Law (which is pretty weak on all counts) time travelers would know that changing the past is a recipe for disaster.
I think the question "Is this a time traveler" is silly. A time traveler is going to do what he can to match the time and place he is visiting; Poule Anderson's Time Patrol understood that. You vary from that only if you don't know where you're going. If there were a time traveler in that photo, no one would notice him.
That's my take.
--M. J. Young
Thu Apr 22 2010 7:27 pm # -
The camera was really far down and looked more like a square block to me. Although, a time traveler would stick out, in my opinion, also if they didn't have the proper look on them. The only reason why I somewhat fit in when I went to your place is because I thought it better to look older then way newer from the time period. That and Gothic loves Victorian for the other one. So I just looked like a prostitute. :)
Fri Apr 23 2010 1:53 am # -
JohnA1nut
MemberI think the question "Is this a time traveler" is silly. A time traveler is going to do what he can to match the time and place he is visiting; Poule Anderson's Time Patrol understood that. You vary from that only if you don't know where you're going. If there were a time traveler in that photo, no one would notice him.
Ya know MJ, I had a thought on this. Doc Brown had money from 1885, and so was able to buy clothes when he arrived. What if someone just happened to snap a photo of him as he was walking into the clothing store? He would still be wearing what he had on at the moment of departure, which would have been 1950s clothes if I recall. Any other clothes he had in the car would have been either 1980s or 2015 clothes. That's why the clothes I carry in the VSP were just olive drab jumpsuits. Generic, plain, and won't really stand out, no matter where I happen to arrive. The point is, someone could snap a photo of a time-traveler wearing anachronistic clothing.
(Doing Therapy)
Thu Apr 29 2010 5:06 am # -
My problem, John, is I'm not really certain just how "anachronistic" the pictured supposed "time traveler"'s clothes actually are. Jeans were common in the nineteenth century; T-shirts are relatively easy to make and have been around a long time. They weren't stylish, perhaps, but they certainly existed. And we've got a guy trying to get pictures in a disaster area--he probably threw on whatever was handy and ran.
--M. J. Young
Thu Apr 29 2010 10:06 pm #
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