Thursday, October 28, 2010

Time Travel...Do You Believe?

I've always been a fan of time travel stories and movies. Everything from the classic H.G. Wells' The Time Machine and Back to the Future to the recent The Time Traveller's Wife. It's always fascinated me. What would you do if you were able to go back and be on that grassy knoll in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963? Or how about trying to get people to believe you on the eve of September 11, 2001? Think about it. How trippy, and ultimately frustrating, would that be?

Anyways, nothing monumental here. No great revelations or discoveries, but there is some clips provided by the sites that does make my brain perk up. Now I'm no physicist by any stretch, but I believe time travel to be possible. I have absolutely nothing to back it up, just a belief, faith if you will. I think we can go into the past because it's already been set, it's already happened, but not forward because it has not. It's got nothing to do with taking a trip around the sun at light-speed a la Star Trek. I don't know what it has to do with, I just don't think it's that.

Anyways, check out the first story (in a link within the second) about someone spotting a "hipster" in a photo taken set in circa 1940s. He looks a little out of the ordinary, given the wardrobe of the rest of the crowd, but as you can see when you scroll down, it's been satisfactorily explained for the most part. Also that piece reminds me of a scene in 12 Monkeys in which Madeline Stowe's character, who plays a psychiatrist, sees Bruce Willis' character, a patient of hers, in a photo taken in World War I.

As for the Charlie Chaplin DVD seen showing a woman walking by the camera, she appears to be talking on a cellphone-like device...in 1928! Check it out.

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