Time Traveller Caught on 1928 Charlie Chaplin Film?

koolpc said:
If it were a mobile phone, where would the satelites etc be as they wouldn't have been invented!!! lol
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50 years ago, when there were no live TV feeds, you would probably ask, "How is possible to view images, live from half way round the World. This makes no sense. lol".

Assuming this is a time traveller, they could well be using technology which we are still a few hundred years away from - a technology that does not require a mast.

In general, humans lack imagination and until new technology is physically shown to a human, that human is always likely to be sceptical about it. I'm sure when the first motor vehicle prototypes were introduced to the public, the public were sceptical of these vehicles and wouldn't have trusted themselves. However, in time, people accept technology once early adopters start using the technology and show others that the said technology does work and is beneficial.

At some point in time, I'm sure you would've been locked up in an asylum if you had suggested that you were able to fly in a vehicle (aeroplane).

To use the point of "where are the phone masts" is plain ridiculous.
 
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The person who is talking in that video, could well be talking to themselves. This is plausible.

I was merely pointing out that the lack of phone masts is a very silly argument against that person being able to use a communication device.

In 1910, to travel across seas, you needed a boat/ship.
In 2010, to travel across seas, you no longer need a boat/ship.

Similarly,
in 2010, you need reception to/from a phone mast to connect to the network and another user.
in 2110 (or beyond), it is VERY likely that we will not need a mast to speak to another user.

Technology moves forward and renders previous technology obsolete - this is a concept lost on some people.
 
DRZ said:
I reckon that is John Titor and not a woman at all.
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What ever happened to Titor.

I remember reading some of his posts. He made a few predictions. One prediction he made was that the USA would go through a MAJOR civil war a few years back. This never happened.

Is he still around or has he vanished?
 
Skyfall said:
The biggest question that appears to have escaped the Irish idiot is if it is a mobile phone it must be some kind of "time phone" who is she going to talk to with no cell towers or infrastructure around? Hence it's not a phone at all.
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I've already given an explanation on phone/cell masts.

Skyfall said:
Also his theory would suggest that there are time machines in existence right now or in the near future, and whilst I cannot 100% disprove this I personally believe that Human technology has not reached the point at which anyone could time travel yet, not for a good many decades at least or at least until the singularity.
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I'd go along with this.

Skyfall said:
Further to that point, if it were a time traveler why have we not seen more of this in other films or photos?
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You probably have. However, in the last decade, if we'd seen (or filmed) someone on a mobile phone, you wouldn't have thought twice about it. Using a mobile phone does not mean you are from the future.

Skyfall said:
Why go through the hassle of wearing period clothing and then talk on a mobile phone?
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It could be that she was caught out by the camera. If I were time travelling to 1928, I would be confident that I wasn't going to be filmed while walking on the street, so would feel quite confident to walk down the street, talking on a communication device. If anybody heard me, they would assume that I was talking to myself and/or was mad. The thought of me being a time traveller and using an advance communication device would be the last thing anybody from 1928 would think.

She was obviously careless though and should not have been caught on camera.

Skyfall said:
The fact that the person is old also casts doubt on the situation, if there were a singular time traveler (as we have not seen more) then surely he didn't simultaneously create a time machine and a completely unnecessary "time phone" in his basement.
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Just because she is the only time traveller, which we have seen so far, does not mean that there haven't been 100s of 1000s of time jumps made by others.

The only reason why she is suspected of being a time traveller, is because she might be using a communication device. Had she been in any other point on the planet, at that given moment in time, she probably wouldn't have been filmed and nobody would ever known about her existence.

Skyfall said:
His claims of showing it to 100 people who could not offer one explanation as to what it could be only further strengthens the stereotype of stupid Irish people.
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Just because somebody has an outlandish theory which does not conform to public (or your) opinion does not make that person stupid.

When inventors began to invent flying vehicles, people like yourself would've called them stupid. 100 years later, we now know that they were geniuses and in fact those who debunked those inventions were the stupid ones.

Skyfall said:
There are many more plausible theories to garner from that section of film, the least likely and least logical being that he/she is a time traveler.
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Agreed 100%.
 
6min 38sec:

"I wish I'd recorded the audience's reaction at the festival whenever I screened it to the hundred-strong audience, I went through it for 30 minutes, back and forth, slow motion, zoomed up, frame-by-frame - there's just no-one in that audience that could give me an explanation..."

Probably because they were all asleep after seeing the same tiny piece of footage for 30 minutes, back and forth, slow motion, zoomed up, frame-by-frame...
 
Surely if she was a time traveller, she would have seen the utter mess she looks on the big screen and would have went back again and wore a pair of lacey tights, 6 inch stillettos and a push up bra?
 
brendy said:
Surely if she was a time traveller, she would have seen the utter mess she looks on the big screen and would have went back again and wore a pair of lacey tights, 6 inch stillettos and a push up bra?
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I think the main aim of getting in costume, is to adorn similar clothing to other people, of that time period and blending in.

What you don't want to do is get dressed up, look fantastic, etc, as this is likely to attract attention when you are walking around with the natives.

So, why is the time traveller an old lady?
Perhaps in the future, companies out there allow customers to use their time travel equipment, to visit different times in history...like tourists.

Logically, the most likely people who would be able to afford to pay the time travelling tourist companies, their asking prices are those who have earned a good wage throughout their lives, have saved up and retired. This would be similar to Virgin Galactic Holidays, which only the rich (normally older) people can afford. Certainly, very few younger people who are still "making it", would be able to afford to go time travelling.
 
I wonder if she would have turned it off when going into the cinema as there would not have been prompts to remind her. Could have been quite an embarrassing situation if she had forgotten to turn it off.
I know it's one of my biggest worries in life that's for sure.
 
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