Posted on 02/06/2016 2:35:49 PM PST by 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.
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Walkie-talkie? Transistor radio?
Or she is scratching her face and that is her hair you see.
Second one is an ear trumpet. You can see a picture of one which would look like a cell phone when folded:
http://www.eartrumpets.co.uk/pretties1.php
This trumpet was made around the time of the video.
A couple years ago when the issue first came up I found a picture which showed the ear trumpet looking exactly like a cell phone but I cannot locate it now for some reason.
The first one is definitely a lap top, though. You can tell from the expression on the woman’s face that she is reading Trump threads on Free Republic. She is so overcome with emotion she needs her daughter to hold the computer.
She’s trying to do that suggestive tongue in cheek move, she’s just not doing it very well, or to put it another way, she really blew it.
Lol. Y1k?
upright part is a mirror
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3393802/posts?page=57#57
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3393802/posts?page=31#31
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3393802/posts?page=3#3
I'm returning to my normal dimension now.
Apparently there is video of that, too (along with that ear trumpet thingy, too).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vwy6gSs-ljA
Time Travelers in 1928 and 1938 film caught talking on a cell phone
Oh my gosh Apple was around back then?
This guy:
https://ezillmer.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/059.jpg
totally unrelated sidebar:
Horatio Greenough made a really ill-considered tribute statue to George Washington that was immediately lampooned even at the time it was unveiled. One wag captioned it, “my body lies on Mt Vernon, my clothes are upstairs.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:George_Washington_Greenough_statue.jpg
Assuming there are extraterrestrials who are far more advanced than we are, why would one expect their computers to look like ours? Isn’t it just as likely their computer development may have been entirely different than ours?
(Cue Twilight Zone music)
Holy Moley its a Toshiba Satellite. :-)
Who's that beauty...Oh my...it's me.
It’s a Hephaestus, named after the Greek god of Kindling.
That’s him! I think it’s a Nokia phone. Too thick for a 6s. Although it might be a 6 in a marble case.
I wonder if AT&T sucked even back then.
Can you hear me yet?
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