Is This Ancient Greek 'Laptop' Proof That Time Travel Is Real? [in short, no]

Yahoo -- ABC News Network ^ | February 5, 2016 | some wackadoodle

[SunkenCiv]

A statue showing a young girl holding up what appears to be a laptop -- complete with USB ports -- has sparked a frenzy among conspiracy theorists.

The statue, 'Grave Naiskos of an Enthroned Woman with an Attendant' is in The J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu, California.

'I am not saying that this is depicting an ancient laptop computer,' said YouTuber StillSpeakingOut.

'But when I look at the sculpture I can't help but think about the Oracle of Delphi, which was supposed to allow the priests to connect with the gods to retrieve advanced information and various aspects.'

In the gallery's description, the object is described as a 'shallow chest' -- but conspiracy theorists are having none of that.

StillSpeakingOut says it, 'depicts an astonishing object which bears a striking resemblance with a modern laptop or some hand-held device.'

The strange image is just one of many seemingly anachronistic objects picked out by conspiracy theorists -- below is a moment in a Charlie Chaplin film where someone appears to be using a mobile phone.

[SunkenCiv]

Even the Romans didn’t even have USB ports, but they did have MCCCXCVI ports.

[SunkenCiv]

No joke!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2110692/posts

[BenLurkin]

It's Murray Trevor, one of the "Thrillseekers"

[datura]

That was good!

[Zathras]

ABC News goes fishing for Conservatives to see if any will bite.
Nonsense.

[C210N]

Of course it’s a laptop. But those aren’t USB ports. They didn’t have USB ports in ancient Greece, come on, people...

I think you are right, clearly wrong timeframe.

Probably just serial ports.

[BenLurkin]

Would be a long way to the nearest cell phone tower.

[Resettozero]

Mirror. Aimed at her chin. Checking on progress of double-chin increase.

[Flick Lives]

Did Windows MCCCXCVI cause the fall of Rome?

[enduserindy]

Small am radio? When I was a kid (not black and white days) I had a small handheld am radio ran on a 9v battery.

[SkyDancer]

Two faced wax tablet for writing short messages on. Each side has wax and it closes for protection until delivered. Either that or it’s a cosmetic holder with polished silver for a mirror. Or it’s a time traveled PC notebook.

[enduserindy]

Wasn’t it firewire back then?

[Darth Reardon]

MCCCXCVI or MCCCXCIV?

Not that it matters, no one used it then, either.

[SunkenCiv]

L, which is the first letter in Lesbos?!? SATAN!?!?! /s

[Charles Henrickson]

Beware of Greeks bearing gifs.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Who was he talking to? Where was the cell tower?

[SunkenCiv]

also not the same thing:

• Stunning finds from ancient Greek shipwreck [Antikythera]
• 'Exosuit' Mission to 2,000-Year-Old Shipwreck Begins
• Wearable submarine to hunt for 2000-year-old computer
• Return to Antikythera: what divers discovered in the deep
• Famed Roman Shipwreck Could Be Two
• Astronomy Picture of the Day -- The Antikythera Mechanism
• Return to Antikythera: Divers revisit wreck where ancient computer found
• Lego Antikythera Mechanism
• Ancient astronomy: Mechanical inspiration
• Shining a light on the past
• Coast-2-Coast AM Saturday Sept 26th --Mysterious Artifact (Antikythera mechanism)
• Shocking Discovery: a PC in B.C.? (Antikythera Mechanism)
• Archimedes and the 2000-year-old computer
• Secrets of Antikythera Mechanism, world's oldest calculating machine, revealed
• Discovering How Greeks Computed in 100 B.C.
• Medieval Calculator Up For Grabs
• OOPARTS (Out of Place Artifacts)
• Astronomy Picture of the day
• Enigma of ancient world's computer is cracked at last
• In search of lost time (Antikythera Mechanism)
• Scientists Unravel Mystery of Ancient Greek Machine
• An Ancient Computer Surprises Scientists (2200yo Roman computer!)
• Ancient calculator was 1,000 yrs ahead of its time
• Were Greeks 1,400 years ahead of their time?
• The Antikythera Mechanism (Computer - 56BC)
• Kurzweil featured on new syndicated radio show "Science Fantastic" hosted by Michio Kaku
• Unearthing the Treasures of the Mediterranean
• The Antikythera Mechanism: Physical and Intellectual Salvage from the 1st Century B.C.
• Secret Handshake
• Strange stories, weird facts
• Did The Ancient Greeks Make A Computer?

[be-baw]

Can you please tell me what the second line in your sign-off says?

[GraceG]

[ A folding looking glass, somewhat like a very large rouge compact, is more like it. It would be available technology for the times, and it would be of a form similar to this.

A silver plate could easily function as a mirror. And calling it a “shallow chest” would rationalize its use as a container for facial enhancements, like some form of mascara or skin colorants.

Doubt if it was cigars, though. ]

I was intentionally mis-quoting Sigmund Freud

[Larry Lucido]

It’s an Etch A Sketch.