Topic: Time Travel Debate

She's just scratching her head...

How can there be a debate about this? At this point in time, there were no base stations that would allow cellphones make calls.
In addition, if this really was a time traveler, he/she'd be really stupid.
Why would the person use the cellphone in publicity?
Another person was walking just a few steps in front of him/her.
Would he/she really risk taking out his/her cellphone and even attempting to use it when he/she's obviously not alone?

Epic fail. How would this even make sense?

I think we SHOULD be debating why they turn invisible and that zebra becomes an elephant. Someone's messing with science.

LOL it could be any number of things s/he's holding. For all we know, s/he might off his/her rocker and talking to him/herself. It was not an uncommon sight in the old days.

Don't you just love the clarity of black and white film lol.
Belfast filmmaker George Clarke, a Chaplin fan, says he was watching the "behind the scenes of 'The Circus' " and was "stumped" at what he saw.

"I kept winding it back, playing it; winding it back, playing it back, and I couldn't explain this," he says. "I want to get this out there to let people try and give me an idea, because right now the only conclusion that I can come to -- it sounds absolutely ridiculous, I'm sure, to some people -- it's a time traveler." Although, as Clarke notes, the "old woman ... looks like a man in drag ... on a mobile phone."

Some who have seen the clip and commented online say it's not a phone the woman is holding, that perhaps she's holding her hand up to her ear to shield the sun from her eyes, or to shield herself to stay out of the camera's gaze.

Source is from link above.

It's a hearing aid...

That's awesome. A time traveller pulls out the only mobile phone in existance in 1928 and... calls who exactly?

THE FUTURE

You saw it here first, folks. Apple has found a way to call back and forwards in TIME. iPhone 5 officially leaked.

EPIC

My time reading this thread has been validated.

EDIT: Better get out the tin-foil hats again, people!

Anyhow I think anything is possible, and because we don't know the limits of the universe. Especially since we are a grain of sand.

"Back in my day we had to walk 50 miles to get a cell phone signal!"

Damn straight.

Not anything is possible. That's a fallacy of logic that Hallmark perpetrates.

I'M READY

what is this, i dont even--. there was no time traveler that went back to the 20s and wanted to call his wife. you guys are under the Texan Sharpshooter Fallacy. theres no meaning in information until you manipulate and interpret it so that it does. you say "hey! that dude is holding his hand in a weird way! waaaait a second! thats how people hold cell phones! there were no cell phones back then, so that dude must be a time traveler!!!" no, hes not, hes just holding his hand in a weird way...

_{i learned about the Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy from a book and it honestly is a real thing}

Everything is possible man, in some way shape or form. Thought is a powerful tool. Perception becomes reality. Don't mock your own limits.

Hey tbd, can i borrow one of your tinfoil hats?
Oy.

Y'all get back to me when the video shows a Blue Box that appears from thin air accompanied by a woosh woosh wooshy noise.

going the speed of light is impossible
touching the very edge of the universe is impossible
and tons of things in video games are impossible (remember the whole debate about the lara croft nude code?)