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As per this Article a mural is seen to be having smartphone in it which was created back in 1937. What is your opinion on this? Do you think it is evidence of time travel?
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It does not depict a cell phone. Cell phones did not exist in 1937.
Interpretation through modern eyes, nothing more.
You do not have the capability of time travel right now.
If you assume that in the future you, in fact, will have the ability to travel backwards in time, do you really believe you will still be using smartphones then?
I’m gonna suggest it was Photoshopped.
It’s just something other than a phone. Why not a mirror or a map or notes on a wood block or any number of things that are not phones
(Allegedly) true story:
On June 28,2009, Stephen Hawking held a party open to anyone, complete with hors d’oeuvres and champagne, but sent the invitations only after it was over so that only time travelers would know to attend.
Sadly, nobody showed up….
This is about Umberto Romano’s mural that he painted in the Springfield, Massachusetts post office in 1937. It is not photoshopped. In the foreground is a Potomtuc Indian, a real estate sales rep a the notorious tribe of time travelers, reporting back to his chieftains the completed sale of land to William Pynchon of what became Springfield, Massachusetts.
“Oh, my god, you’re not going to believe this. These idiots just gave us 18 hoes, 18 containers of tradeable wampum each 6 feet high , 18 coats, 18 hatchets and 18 knives in return for “ownership” of the land, but we retain the use of it as always. So, nothing has changed, we’re just a tad richer is all. As you know, until repairs can be made, we are still unable to ship large inanimate objects from base via the transporter, so the manufactured goods are something we desperately need. But the hoes are without expertise and cold as ice. Absolutely useless as hoes. LOL. Puritan hoes. What an oxymoron from a moronic race. I accepted them only in order to not piss Pynchon off. Nobody likes it when you diss their women, right? They might make good house slaves, though.”
Or you can believe that the Potomtuc is simply reading a wooden or stone tablet.
I’m gonna suggest it was Photoshopped.
I thought that might be the case. But I found a copy on a Smithsonian web site that was posted long before the “controversy”.
The Charlie Chaplin movie wasn’t photo shopped.
I’m with @AYKM and @EC that it’s just tablet of some sort. The article even says it’s likely a mirror, since mirrors ”‘were presented often in such exchanges.’”
I’m pretty sure the lady in the Chaplin video is just holding a jacket collar up against the side of her face. Then she looks furtively towards the camera. As the video gets closer and slows down, you can see what looks like dark material on either side of her hand.
I think it’s a clickbait article for the mentally deficient.
But it is also actually totally a Star Fleet officer incognito, using a communicator.
And ya that other one’s “totes” a time-traveling laptop. How else could two rectangular things have been hinged and held that way in the distant past?
O… M… G…
Time travel or not what use would a smartphone be in the 17th century? No phone network, no internet, no-one to text and most important no electricity. As already said probably a mirror. Imagine the wonder for the native seeing his own face for the first time.
@basstrom188 That’s how I know he must be calling the starship Enterprise or something.
We see what we expect to see. I once saw a speech given by JFK to a room full of people seated at tables trapped in white.
I kept thinking some thing was “wrong”. Then I realized not one person had an electronic device. Until that hit me consciencely, I would have sworn that they did.
Also say it WAS a time traveler. A cell phone would useless without the technology to run it.
Not so, you don’t need a network to play angry birds.
You need electricity to change it tho.
I finally was able to load the picture where I could blow it up to see the object in question. I think it’s photo shopped too.
@Dutchess_III Be sure to pack some portable solar panels before you travel that far back in time.
Right? Because it’s really important to play the games that are in your phone and internet independent in the middle of a buffalo hunt. But you could get some great pictures.
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