Mystery Time travellers

[ioppolo]

Time travel.....Really interesting topic. I was searching photos and found this

I have a few problems with this,

1. Im not experienced on photo editing but something tells me that the best of the best could pull this off.
2. Wouldn't anyone around them wonder what the hell this bloke is doing.

You do a quick search on the net and there is threads on military sites working on such thing. Crazy stuff if true

What year/event is this photo from?

 

[van peebles]

it does look like an old simon townsend wonder world t/shirt
credit to the person,if its installed for dressing the bloke in a cardy worn by most dairy farmers of the time

 

[speedybundy]

Yeah, I tend to agree that time travel backwards is impossible but we may be able to speed up forwards travel. This is of course that we are already travelling forward through time at a rate of 'one minute per minute'

Due to relativity we can change the speed that 'our' time elapses relative to other people's but as a few other posters have said you don't get any extra time in the bank so to speak, it just gets reallocated to a different date range.

The question of 'What is time?' is an interesting one, and one that we really probably haven't answered conclusively yet. My friend Matt has written a book on how he thinks that time doesn't exist and that all that happens is that things in the 3 spacial dimensions change.

So who'd go where? Would we all go forward to see if and when our teams win flags?

I love that question "what is time", no idea if there is a point in space where you can actually see time or, like I think you're talking about it's just things changing continuously (it's just something that's happening that you can't see).

There was a theory that time operates in lines, which I think John Titor claimed happened with him. For example there would be literally billions of new timelines occurring every second, all with different realities. The question 'Does the fact that Hitler lived prove that time travel will never exist?' is supposedly answered by that theory.

 

[The_Todd07]

What year/event is this photo from?

Bridge opening in British Columbia, Cananda in 1941

 

[DIG]

Looks like there's a cord around his neck. If it's a camera he's holding, the cord could join to that.

it does look like an old simon townsend wonder world t/shirt
credit to the person,if its installed for dressing the bloke in a cardy worn by most dairy farmers of the time

...which would mean he's not wearing those dark shades cos he's blind.

Likely he belongs there but they are strange looking sunnies for 1941.

 

[grizzlym]

Looks like there's a cord around his neck. If it's a camera he's holding, the cord could join to that.



...which would mean he's not wearing those dark shades cos he's blind.

Likely he belongs there but they are strange looking sunnies for 1941.

Apparently those sunnies were around in that day. I think, off memory, like army/airforce issue or something.

 

[speedybundy]

Read up on that photo, apparently that style of sunglass appeared in a movie a few years beforehand, and the shirt's logo is actually finally sown (hope that's spelled right, haven't used that word in years) not printed as it appears, and is the logo of a local hockey team.

Still, this guy is dressed literally 70 years ahead of his time

 

[grizzlym]

Read up on that photo, apparently that style of sunglass appeared in a movie a few years beforehand, and the shirt's logo is actually finally sown (hope that's spelled right, haven't used that word in years) not printed as it appears, and is the logo of a local hockey team.

Still, this guy is dressed literally 70 years ahead of his time

He is from our perspective. But probably not for the time - might have been the equivalent of a hipster or something.

In any case, presupposing that people were time travelling, you'd be making sure they either fitted in or weree ready to fit in before posing for photos. Sure way to stand out, which is presumably the exact opposite to what they want to do.

 

[MaddAdam]

The rest of the crowd are all looking one way at something and he's looking down and away. Like a blind man would. I actually think the body language plays a role in this - he kind of has the pose we now connect with a too cool hipster. We want to think, "Ah, look at this time travelling hipster having a bit of a laugh at the yokels."

A far more entertaining notion than: "Ah, that sucks, poor dude at a parade and can't even see what is going on."

As for time travel, it is entirely possible. I'm doing it right now. FFS, every time I go outside here in Belgium I feel like I'm in the early 1990s again.

 

[speedybundy]

He is from our perspective. But probably not for the time - might have been the equivalent of a hipster or something.

In any case, presupposing that people were time travelling, you'd be making sure they either fitted in or weree ready to fit in before posing for photos. Sure way to stand out, which is presumably the exact opposite to what they want to do.

Exactly what I was trying to get at, the facts about the sunnies and hockey team give a very reasonable explanation.

As with a lot of conspiracy theories, if you hear hooves think Horses, not Zebras

 

[MaddAdam]

What's that German movie about the man whose Mum is going senile, so he recreates her life pretty juch as it was in the old Communist East?

 

[Crows_United_FC]

Does anyone remember this video that surfaced a few years ago??

 

[DIG]

The rest of the crowd are all looking one way at something and he's looking down and away. Like a blind man would. I actually think the body language plays a role in this - he kind of has the pose we now connect with a too cool hipster. We want to think, "Ah, look at this time travelling hipster having a bit of a laugh at the yokels."

A far more entertaining notion than: "Ah, that sucks, poor dude at a parade and can't even see what is going on."

As for time travel, it is entirely possible. I'm doing it right now. FFS, every time I go outside here in Belgium I feel like I'm in the early 1990s again.

But why would a blind man have a camera? Make for some pretty ordinary pictures

It's a cool picture but grizzlym's right about it.

 

[Catfish Alley]

He doesn't look blind at all. His line of sight matches perfectly with the shorter guy to the left.

 

[TheKanga]

What's that German movie about the man whose Mum is going senile, so he recreates her life pretty juch as it was in the old Communist East?

Goodbye Lenin ?

 

[TheKanga]

Does anyone remember this video that surfaced a few years ago??

Hmm pretty interesting.

I suppose though it would be fairly easy to get your dad or older relative to get the same tat.
They did look quite alike though!

 

[DIG]

Hmm pretty interesting.

I suppose though it would be fairly easy to get your dad or older relative to get the same tat.
They did look quite alike though!

They were uncannily alike!

Still, he should've filmed more or brought something tangible back like a sports almanac if he wanted to be convincing.

 

[little graham]

There's just something about the edges of peoples bodies in photos when they're real compared to when someone is photo shopped next to them. It's like a photoshop loses any 3d like qualities an untouched photo has. You can see most of those time traveller pics on the site the pic in this thread is from, are phoshopped.

 

[grizzlym]

Does anyone remember this video that surfaced a few years ago??

This was a clever advertising campaign for life insurance. Seriously.

 

[Druitt Soldier]

A little off topic maybe. But here is a story from a very interesting theoretical physicist named Michio Kaku.

The year is 1945. A stranger emerges from the darkness carrying a baby girl that he leaves at an orphanage. Well, the nuns find this baby girl, they don’t know where this baby girl came from, so the nuns call her… Jane. So Jane grows up at the orphanage wondering, “Who is my mother? Who is my father?”
When Jane is seventeen years old, she’s a beautiful young woman and finally has her first boyfriend. A drifter comes drifting into her life, but it just wasn’t meant to be. They quarrel. She argues with her boyfriend. It’s a very sad story. First, she finds out that she’s pregnant. Her boyfriend has left her. She’s abandoned and pregnant. She’s rushed to the hospital 9 months later and she delivers a beautiful baby girl. But somehow, somebody breaks into the hospital that night, kidnaps Jane’s baby girl, and vanishes into the darkness.
Wait, it gets worse. Jane is bleeding very rapidly and death becomes a real possibility. The doctors must perform an experimental emergency operation. They have to change Jane into Jim.
Well, Jim wakes up the next day with a huge headache and he’s told the bad news. First, the boyfriend left her pregnant, somebody stole her baby, and now she’s not even Jane anymore! She’s… Jim??
So Jim grows up to become a bar room drunk. Every time someone asks, “Who are you, Jim? Where’d you come from? Who’s your mother or father?” He just didn’t know.
Finally Jim one day is once again stone drunk at the floor of the bar right after a bar fight. The bartender comes up to him and says, “Jim! Jim! Wake up! Hey, guess what? You see, I’m not really a bartender. I’m actually a time traveler. Let’s step into my machine and see who is this Jim/Jane.”
So they go back into the past. Poor Jim, he doesn’t know where he is in the past. However, he meets this beautiful seventeen year old girl and it’s love at first sight. But it just wasn’t meant to be. They quarrel. Then Jim finds out that his girlfriend is pregnant. Jim says to himself, “Holy crap. History is repeating itself! This happened to be me! Well I’m going to make sure that my baby gets the best education possible.”
That night, nine months later, Jim goes to the hospital, breaks open the window, and kidnaps his own precious baby girl. Then Jim, holding his baby girl, goes back into the time machine back, waay back into the past until it’s 1945. It’s a dark and stormy night. Jim comes in from the darkness carrying his precious baby daughter and drops her off at an orphanage.
Well, the nuns don’t know what to do with this baby girl the next day so they just decide to call her Jane. And Jane grows up wondering, “Who is my mother? Who is my father?”
Anyways, Jim finally gets it together. Well, I don’t want to be a drunk for the rest of my life. So Jim decides to join the TTC, or Time Travelers’ Corps. So Jim has many wondrous exploits in the annals of time.
Now Jim is an old man. He thinks to himself, “I’ve had a good long life. But I want to give myself one final mission. For my last mission, I’m going to go back in time, put on a wig, and impersonate a bartender. To meet a certain bar room drunk who just got into a fistfight because someone said, “Who are you Jim? Who’s your mother? Who’s your father?”

 

[grizzlym]

A little off topic maybe. But here is a story from a very interesting theoretical physicist named Michio Kaku.

There's a great video of him explaining this idea and other time related things.

 

[Druitt Soldier]

There's a great video of him explaining this idea and other time related things.

I know the one you're talking about and you're right. It is really good.

 

[pantskyle]

Probably going to spend a lot of time reading up on this bloke

Safe to say that in 2011 the USA is in a big civil war was a bit of a flop

Also noted he talked about using viruses to kill cancer which I remember hearing about lately

Could you argue that the big civil war didn't occur because it was known so it was avoided?

I'm yet to read up on him but felt like replying first.

 

[JuddsABlue]

Could you argue that the big civil war didn't occur because it was known so it was avoided?

I'm yet to read up on him but felt like replying first.

there could be a lot of reasons why it didnt happen, he said it might not even happen althought it would be better for us if it did

Anything thats different is defensible because of his world line theory. Someone here in a position of power couldve woken up feeling differently and as a result a civil war was avoided because he conceded his political viewpoint or something similiar

Its an interested read. His story is amazingly solid and consistent.

 

[pantskyle]

there could be a lot of reasons why it didnt happen, he said it might not even happen althought it would be better for us if it did

Anything thats different is defensible because of his world line theory. Someone here in a position of power couldve woken up feeling differently and as a result a civil war was avoided because he conceded his political viewpoint or something similiar

Its an interested read. His story is amazingly solid and consistent.

I just read through the wiki page on him. Will dig deeper later.