Granted, I haven't watched the clip, but really? I doubt that the footage a guy from Belfast found of someone in the 1920s apparently talking on a mobile phone is evidence of time travel
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There's nothing like seeing criticism of something prefaced with the 'I've not watched/read this yet' clause ;) While I very much doubt it is a time traveller, it's fun to entertain the notion. Obviously calling it a 'mobile phone' is a misnomer, a walkie-talkie or radio would make more sense. While the case for miniaturisation is pretty strong you never know what period in time they bought the device ;)
The overweight, heavily breathing woman with a toothache, you say?
See, I reckon if we had time travel, we'd probably have reached a point where you didn't need a mobile phone. Or, at least, where you didn't need to take a fat-ass anachronism back with you (Yeah, you might get away with it if you knew you were going to the 1920s - and why wouldn't you be? - but it'd be no help if you were going back much further, because people would either nick it or kill you, or both. So you'd need something less obvious anyway, and by that point why would you take a mobile?)
Also, if this is us busting open the time travelling sneakery of our descendents right now in 2010, how come it's still there? I've played Chrononaughts, I'm pretty sure that Premier never happened - it got cancelled after the reels exploded and set off the great California Firestorm of 1928. Y'know, the one where the Mexicans annexed their ancestral lands and put out the blaze with apache helicopters scooping water out of the Pacific...
I have now watched it (I'm not going out till 6 and apparently homework is even less enticing than youtube) and the bloke has a point with the resemblance to a mobile phone. The user isn't just touching her/his (this filmmaker seems doubtful as to the figure's gender) ear and even appears to have that slightly unfocused expression one acquires when talking on the phone. Can't say I'm taken with the time travel theory but one never knows.
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See, I reckon if we had time travel, we'd probably have reached a point where you didn't need a mobile phone. Or, at least, where you didn't need to take a fat-ass anachronism back with you (Yeah, you might get away with it if you knew you were going to the 1920s - and why wouldn't you be? - but it'd be no help if you were going back much further, because people would either nick it or kill you, or both. So you'd need something less obvious anyway, and by that point why would you take a mobile?)
Also, if this is us busting open the time travelling sneakery of our descendents right now in 2010, how come it's still there? I've played Chrononaughts, I'm pretty sure that Premier never happened - it got cancelled after the reels exploded and set off the great California Firestorm of 1928. Y'know, the one where the Mexicans annexed their ancestral lands and put out the blaze with apache helicopters scooping water out of the Pacific...
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