Joseph Matheny: [We thought], "Let's pick some things that might actually happen. John Titor, in an Art Bell forum post from February 1, Titor's predictions were met with a healthy mix of skepticism and excitement on the Art Bell forums, with dozens of other readers asking hundreds of follow-up questions.
Charlotte Boren, in an Art Bell forum post from February 6, Please list the price of gold for the last 20 of your years and I can tell you the condition of the stock market in the future. Will it still be fairly lawful for me to own and use handguns when are beginning your time travel adventures?
Is it possible for you to bump into yourself when you are time travelling? Saw a Jean Claude Van Dam [sic] movie about that once. I think it was called Time Cop. You melt. John Titor, in an Art Bell forum post from January 30, Traveling through time is tricky business. Titor claimed that the technology, based on the far-out, cosmological work of mathematical physicist Frank Tipler , would be figured out after a breakthrough at the CERN particle accelerator, and by his era it was commonplace.
Titor's machine was manufactured by General Electric and installed in a Chevy Corvette. But no crackpot thinks he is, right?
An astronomer once published a list of the rules for determining a crackpot. Well, if you read Darwin's Origin of the Species , you'll find he was a crackpot by some of the criteria. I'm very conservative scientifically. I'm just changing the boundary conditions in cosmology from the beginning of time to the end of time.
I accept all known physical laws, and just change the point of view. Emmanuel Kant claimed the three fundamental problems of metaphysics are: Does God exist?
I turn those questions of metaphysics into problems of physics, and solve them, answering yes, yes, yes. The history of science is typically about turning insoluble problems of metaphysics into problems of physics and solving them. Like one of Kant's problems: Has the universe existed forever, or only a finite time? Kant thought this was fundamentally insoluble too, and had a purported proof of this. But in this century, we've turned this supposedly insoluble metaphysical problem into one of physics and solved it, to find the universe is 10 to 20 billion years old.
I'm just taking the next step. My reductionist belief is that a problem that can be solved can be solved by physics. And only by physics. John Titor, in an Anomalies. The complex diagrams for Titor's time machine have baffled investigators -- they're obviously made by somebody with a knowledge of electronics, but they have no understandable function.
That didn't stop a man named Marlin Pohlman from trying to patent it in I work for a large software company have no profit motive.
Marlin Pohlman is currently spending six years in prison for drugging and raping four women. According to police, he mixed a cocktail of LSD, ecstasy, and nitrous oxide into spring-loaded syringes and injected his victims in their necks before having his way with them.
Marlin Pohlman, during his trial via The Oregonian : [I patented the time machine because] I had to do something while I was going through chemo [for Hodgkin's lymphoma about ]. I had nothing better to do. I think I made a mathematical error. Pohlman pled guilty in and was sentenced to 75 months in prison.
Titor's purpose in traveling back to the past was apparently to retrieve an IBM , one of the first portable computers. The hit the market in weighing in at 55 pounds and sporting an internal 5-inch CRT monitor.
Oliver Williams, John Titor archivist on The Moore Show on April 5, He claimed to be part of a military group whose job it was to go back to the year and get a small personal computer -- it was actually one of the first portable computers made, and it was in Rochester, Minnesota.
Well I have a good question for you in do you still use toliet [sic] paper to wipe your ass. John Titor, in an Art Bell forum post from February 1, condensed :. Joseph Matheny: The in the story I started my career as an IT person, and two of the people involved were older IT people. I didn't come up with it, but when I saw it proposed I thought "that is so funny, we have to do that.
Oliver Williams, John Titor archivist on The Moore Show on April 5, Some IBM engineers came forward and said "I don't know if that guy was a time traveler or not, but everything he said about that machine is true," and maybe only 20 people knew about [the computer's true functions]. Of all the people who communicated with John Titor, no one came closer than Pamela Moore. She engaged in multiple chat conversations with the time traveler throughout the early s.
But the truth was I had a detailed dream of a time traveler in Before Titor disappeared in March , he shared with her a "secret song" that she could use to identify any impostors. The identification of this song has been an obsession with researchers. Perhaps whoever he was he never told anyone else.
He said his name was John Titor, and he wrote about the dystopian future from which he came; a time of war, famine, and destruction. He warned that his future was also our future, suggesting we prepare by stockpiling weapons and food.
He also explained how his time machine works, offering up diagrams of the device. The year is Sixteen years after a surprise nuclear strike by the Russians in , the United States infrastructure has collapsed. If anything, I learned that life is full of mysteries if you just pay attention. Lawrence Haber. A photograph from deemed to be genuine--shows a guy in what appears to be modern clothing modern sunglasses, a printed T-shirt?
Researchers, though, determined the sunglasses had been around since the s, and the shirt is probably a sweater with a sewn-on emblem, maybe from the now-defunct Montreal Maroons ice hockey team. And that tiny camera hanging from his neck? Kodak was producing those by as well. In extra footage from "The Circus," a Charlie Chaplin silent film from , a woman walks by holding her hand to her ear in the same way people do with cell phones.
It set the Internet abuzz when the footage was rediscovered in Though experts say she was probably using a portable hearing aid. Also, we're guessing her reception would have been spotty, since cell towers would not yet have been invented.
The painting, though, was completed in Time travel? Plenty of people on the Internet thought so! In the early s, reports surfaced of a recently discovered sculpture--apparently showing an astronaut--at a cathedral in Salamanca, Spain.
A cathedral dating back to In , archaeologists unearthed an ancient mummy, who had died maybe 1, years ago, high in the mountains of Mongolia. Wearing boots over her Adidas? Well, no. The boot material and style matched the era, and the woman was probably a seamstress, and she was found with a sewing and embroidery kit, an ancient clutch bag, a mirror, a comb, a knife, and more.
Find 5 people within miles that you trust with your life and stay in contact with them. Consider what you would bring with you if you had to leave your home in 10 minutes and never return. He had come from the year to help save the world. And he was heading to Rochester for the IBM Written By: Steve Lange am, Oct. Suggested Articles. Rochester Magazine. Businesses To Follow. He even showed off his cool futuristic military insignia.
He was never heard from again. In , members of George Mason University threw together a multimedia rock opera based on Titor. A summary of the tale at io9. What seemingly should have been dismissed as a four-month hoax, the work of some nerd killing time at his boring temp job, somehow turned into a phenomenon. George Noory, who replaced Bell in , has continued carrying the torch, devoting entire episodes to the ongoing mystery, fielding inane questions from callers and somehow answering with a straight face.
I'll hang up and listen. An interview followed between Noory and Kay—with Haber acting as a phone go-between—and it ended up answering, well, pretty much nothing at all.
After that episode, the show intermittently tracked Titor's proposed timeline, looking at current events like tea leaves, possible harbingers of a nuclear armageddon. The Italian investigative TV show Voyager took up the case in , hiring a private eye to locate the folks behind the LLC, and a search led back to the aforementioned Lawrence Haber, who was listed as the company's CEO.
A group of friends with some downtime between gigs at their production company checked out the P. Box themselves but found nothing worthwhile. At some point, JohnTitorFoundation. This started another round of speculation that Pohlman, himself, was the original Titor poster.
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