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Interesting vid on what looks like a person in a old Charlie Chaplin film is talking on a cell phone:

The guy just keeps on talking and talking.

I found out the answer in about 5 seconds by reading the comments, though.

Contemporary hearing aid + chewing gum is my guess.

Unless the phone can transmit through time.

snoopy wrote:The guy just keeps on talking and talking.

I found out the answer in about 5 seconds by reading the comments, though.

No offense, m8, but this really makes me wonder about you and your thought process because:

1) 99% of the comments in that video are silly.

2) I didn't have to be told anything in order to know what the deal is (from comments, word of mouth, etc.)

A '20s trumpet-style hearing aid was the first thing I thought of.

Whatever lets you sleep at night ;)

Nice way for the video author to start a viral ad campaign for his movies. Very sly.

Blaze, what are you talking about?

This might be close. 1920's Hearing Aid

Even if the idiot assumes it is a cell phone.
How does he assume she/he would be talking on it ?
Did she/he time transport cell towers, cell networks, etc ? Oh I know maybe it was a special cell phone that communicated across time...

I take dumps more interesting than this theroy.

Xamindar wrote:Nice way for the video author to start a viral ad campaign for his movies. Very sly.

Jason Statham is the star in one of his films. =)

Blaze, what are you talking about? :?

Oh, dear... now I'm scared...

If it's a hearing aid, why is she talking into it?

Are you seriously considering the fact that a DeLorean DMC-12 with a flux capacitor isn't considered company equipment at AT&T as proof that it's not a cell phone?

Well, I guess everyone understands what I'm talking about, since no one replied to this.

(bump)

Isaac wrote:It is not a time traveler. Such a silly idea is impossible.

Do you think time travel is impossible?

I once heard Stephen Hawking speak about time travel. Even if one could do it they would only be able to travel back as far as when the machine was first turned on. Also time travel is allowed by the laws of physics.

National Geographic has a very good article on time travel.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news ... ravel.html

Heretic wrote:

Isaac wrote:It is not a time traveler. Such a silly idea is impossible.

Do you think time travel is impossible?

NO no no... Sometimes I act silly on this forum, just to be silly...

Heretic wrote: Even if one could do it they would only be able to travel back as far as when the machine was first turned on.

Interesting. Link please?

I saw it on Stephen Hawking Universe but it was based on Dr. Ronald L. Mallett's work in physics on time travel.

http://www.strangemag.com/timetravel/timetraveler.html

Isaac wrote:It is not a time traveler. Such a silly idea is impossible. No, clearly, this is a shape shifter from "the other side", who has found a soft spot between our universes to cross over!!!

Shape shifter, or observer, is the question.

snoopy wrote:

Isaac wrote:It is not a time traveler. Such a silly idea is impossible. No, clearly, this is a shape shifter from "the other side", who has found a soft spot between our universes to cross over!!!

Shape shifter, or observer, is the question.

"There's only one god in this lab and he is not yours!" >:3

This doesn't explain why there's a person who looks like a woman in 1928 talking into a cell phone that you all said was a hearing aid. :P

Look let me explain it for you HARD of HEARING peoples.

THERE IS NO TIME TRAVEL.


'Nuff said.

That woman there had a common problem that people had back then. There was a bedbug in her ear. NOW, move along, nothing to hear here.

I said nothing of time travel. ;)

YOU WILL NEVER WIN! :P

You've all got it wrong.

She was an alien shape shifter talking to the mother ship.

It's clear that Bush captured aliens which crash landed in AREA 51, and they eventually escaped when one of the guards forgot to put his tin hat on. Then they immediately contacted Google who provided them with information on the most focal point in time. The aliens then clearly proceeded to steal the secret time machine from the bowels of some hidden base on a remote island in order to travel back in time and prevent humans from discovering tin hats as a defense against their mind beams. Thats why it's merely discounted as an \"old wives tale\" nowadays.

Or was she Phyrexian?

nah, she's a myr.

zeta reticulan

It's part of the Temporal Cold War

She's nonchalantly trying to obscure from the camera the fact that the actor playing her is MALE.
(the movie industry did have \"extras\" back then right? This is an extra and not some random civilian just passing by while they film yes?)

So many plausible explanations, why choose a non-plausible one like time-travel?

The guy was pretty annoying, he just goes on and on repeating himself for 8 minutes. He's pre-biasing the audience before he shows them the evidence.
I saw no \"thin black device\" in this terrible footage. Also i don't wrap my fingers around my phone like that - i press it flush against my ear.

...but Occam's Razor doesn't mention anything about playing the \"crazy\" card when one can't explain something.

Jerry, what do you think?


Oh snap!