[alzer81]

..... in a 1920's Charlie Chaplin film.
Can You Hear Me Now? Charlie Chaplin Time Traveler Caught on Tape from 1928

[alzer81]

found another one here:
forgetomori » Time Traveler Caught in Museum Photo?

[socreative]

this guy is an idiot, who will that woman be talking to on a mobile phone in 1928? there were no mobile phone towers

[Rik]

yawn

[oli]

Spotted a few more...

[StisterMeve]

Genius.

[Rik]

.. good on the man promoting his wee film though.

[Dusty]

haha, demt is from the future... if only we could understand his dire warnings for the future of mankind.

[KingCraig]

If someone was going to invent a time machine, why would they send a fat middle aged woman back to the twenties?

Apart from that, I'm sold.

[scrooble]

ZOMG!!!! thx for sharin

[OD]

Originally Posted by KingCraig

...why would they send a fat middle aged woman back to the twenties?

So she can call you in the future to tell you that the time machine didn't turn her inside-out?

[steveb]

Originally Posted by KingCraig

If someone was going to invent a time machine, why would they send a fat middle aged woman back to the twenties?

Er, to get rid of her?

If time travel were ever to be possible in the entire history of the universe, we would already know about it. It would be a well-known phenomenon and would have always been, right from the beginning of life on earth. But it isn't, so it won't be.

[KingCraig]

I heard it's how AIDS started. A dinosaur time travelled to the 80s and had sex with a monkey and Freddie Mercury.

[OD]

Originally Posted by steveb

It would be a well-known phenomenon...

Why?

What makes you think that people in the future would want to reveal themselves as time-travellers to people in the past (or do you mean something else)?

[steveb]

No, I don't - but how could it have been keep a secret if they can walk among us in the fashion shown in the 1940 photo?

Then there are the times in history which would be warped out of existance because of all the time travel traffic messing up the spacetime vectors. Things like the Battle of Trafalgar and The Coronation of QE2 would be almost invisible even when they were happening because of all the disturbance caused by trillions of visits from the future - which is a very long time still for life on earth. Nearly a billion years before the sun becomes too hot - but shucks, I'm telling you the plot!

[Derek Smalls]

Light – The Possibility of Time Travel « Sense or Science

[Dusty]

Steves avatar was taken whilst he was watching Jack The Ripper at work.

[OD]

Originally Posted by steveb

...but how could it have been keep a secret if they can walk among us in the fashion shown in the 1940 photo?

Simples.

Don't send people back in time who'll whip out their iPhone200 while they're supposed to be walking about incognito in the 1920s.

[steveb]

Or could it be that Jack the Ripper (or Jaakko Riipinen) is actually from the 1888 future which is why we've never been caught, I mean him. Him. They never caught him.

[steveb]

Originally Posted by OriginalDisco

Simples.

Don't send people back in time who'll whip out their iPhone200 while they're supposed to be walking about incognito in the 1920s.

Oh, they aren't SENT. It's quite voluntary. With most of the surface of the world being storm-ravaged desert and a few million people living in the Antarctic coastal cities, travelling back in time is the only way our descendents will be able to visit Venice or Paris or the Boardwalk in Atlantic City.