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Time Traveler Caught On Film?!?!

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  1. Trebuchet

    Trebuchet Senior Member

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    Here it is, what say you?


    Longer version with some narrative . . .



    Short version . . .




    Have fun!
     
    #1 Trebuchet, Nov 7, 2010
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    It's an old woman hiding her face and talking either to herself or someone off screen.

    Well either that or a time travelling woman! lol
     
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    If it's a time traveler with a cell phone, who'd she supposed to be talking to? Another time traveler with another cell phone? And which cell phone company is providing the service? I'm sure not convinced.
     
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    Why is this such a big deal? I see stuff like this on Dr. Who every week.
     
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    Tony will answer that question for you . . . is it me or is it just coincidence that the answer is in the episode titled "42" LOL!


    The Doctor: Well, there we go, universal roaming.
    [tosses Martha her newly altered cell phone]

    The Doctor: Never have to worry about a signal again.

    Martha Jones: No way. This is too mad. You're telling me I can phone anyone anywhere in space and time on my mobile?

    The Doctor: As long as you know the area code.


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    http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Superphone
     
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    In order for her cell phone to work, there has to be cell towers. This time traveler has to bring the cell towers as well.
     
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    Same thing I said immediately to someone at work showing me this video at work last week USB...

    I thought of something like an ear trumpet while watching it, but it is still amazing how much it does look like a cell phone when watching it.
     
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    She's talking to herself? Not to mention that a cord is not visible.
     
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    Any sufficiently advanced time traveling civilization would have some fairly advance communications devices as well.
     
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    If she was from the future, she would have better looking shoes.
     
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    A long time ago the Chinese civilization bound feet believing smaller feet to be more attractive, obviously her civilization believed Ginormous feet to be attractive! :D
     
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    We can only hope Mrs Gulch never becomes fashionable.
    [​IMG]
     
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    I'm not buying the "ear trumpet" story.

    Naturally, she has crappy looking shoes - she is trying to blend in.
     
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    In Chaplin's day people walking on the street talking to themselves were considered deranged. Today they are believed to be talking on a phone (although they may still be deranged).
     
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    Definately looks like a cell phone device, but again no towers no cell phone. Probably just a mad guy in drag.

    Didn't Picard and crew go back in time to 1893 San Fransisco and that's how they met Guina, well Data did at first...

    Could be a similar situation :)
     
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    "Can you hear me now?" :madgrin:
     
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    So was this just a pointless joke or a stunt, or is the guy seriously deranged? I mean the film maker who claims the lady is a time traveler. I'm sure if you examined enough films and videos from any period, you could find plenty of little oddities like this.
     
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    I think it is much more likely that she is talking to a small faerie in a matchbox.

    But it also looks something like Dick Cheney, and he had ugly shoes too.
     
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