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I was also wondering about the watch. My smartphone does tell me what the temperature is, but that's not because it has a builtin thermometer; it's because it's downloading it based on my location. I can put in the name of a different city and get the temperature there. Do watches work the same way, or are they actually measuring ambient temperature? If the former, then since there are no data channels in the specified era, the watch is going to be showing that it can't download the information, right?
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07-09-2018, 03:40 PM | #33 |
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Given the future technology Special Branch would have to conclude that they are dealing with a time traveler. And probably an inadvertent time traveler because while he's equipped for violence, burglary, and undercover work, he's not equipped for undercover work in 1914 where he blatantly sticks out.
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07-09-2018, 08:21 PM | #36 |
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Why would quantum physics be necessary to decide "extraterrestrial"? We had ETs in fiction long before quantum mechanics, or even relativistic physics (The War of the Worlds was serialized in 1897, and the Great Moon Hoax, in which life forms were supposedly sighted on the Moon using powerful telescopes, came out even earlier, in 1835).
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Of course they'd be wrong. But they could think of the idea!
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Given Lowell's claims of martians, and Burroughs' novels... ... accusations of being a Martian are likely to fly pretty well. And, given US Xenophobia in the era... could be even somewhat hostile. Be harder to get common folk to believe time travel over martian, and harder to get the educated to believe martian than time traveler. (Lowell was widely considered a nutjob, since no one else could see his canals.) |
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