Some think it’s impossible… but others say it’s inevitable. As far out as something like time travel might appear, perhaps the inherent inevitability would be, rather than its existence, the expectation that some would go so far as to claim that they are living proof, having traveled to the past on missions overseen by future Earth societies.

For as long as sci-fi pulp magazines have published the adventures of space wanderers and time travelers, fringe weirdos have engaged in a healthy doses of claims of this sort of thing themselves. Historically, such instances often deal with UFO abductees claiming to have ridden on advanced craft capable of warping both space and time, having interacted with aliens who depict future cataclysms here on Earth by unsavory political endeavors in our future. In at least one incident, Andrew Carlssin, a man accused of Wall Street insider-trading, skipped town after claiming his information came from knowledge of future events, which he garnered from his “home” era: the year 2256!

The notion of time travel also began to overlap with various theories surrounding the alleged (and infamous) “Philadelphia Experiment,” asserted through a series of correspondences by a shady character calling himself Carlos Allende. But arguably, one of the more popular “controversies” to have arisen in recent times pertaining to time travelers from the future deals with the story of a man calling himself “John Titor.” Popularized by the late night radio program Coast to Coast AM, Titor became a controversial figure after posting information about himself on various Internet message forums years ago, detailing a bizarre story about traveling to our time from the future and meeting his immediate family members, as well as his own youthful alternate-self.

If you hadn’t guessed already, what is the number one thing these wild claims always tend to lack? Indeed, it is far more seldom than professed time traveling abilities that those who make such assertions present evidence with their claims. And yet, from time to time strange bits of evidence, such as odd photographs depicting out-of-place events, do appear that have caused historians and scholars to wonder.

Recently, a couple of photographs from the early 1940s taken in British Columbia, Canada, have been making the rounds. In particular, the popular website Forgetomori has done some nice write-ups about a “hipster” seen at the re-opening of a bridge. In the image below, can you spot the individual who simply doesn’t appear to belong with the rest of the crowd?

Take a second look at the man on the right side of the page… he’s wearing dark sunglasses and a sweater with a printed shirt underneath that just doesn’t seem to fit the setting or circumstances. Might this decade-dodging individual fit in better alongside the college-aged youth of today? Is this real proof of time travelers lurking around throughout history?

Mori, the blogger at the site in question, offers a different perspective:

Even taking this photo for granted, as depicting an authentic scene, a real man with his curious glasses and outfit in Canada 70 years ago, there’s nothing that can be seen that is actually out of place or time. He looks different from other people, but it has already been suggested that he’s using welding goggles and a glove.

“This,” he concludes, “is not much of a proof of time travel, and more like evidence of the cyclic nature of fashion. These days, even a beggar can be mistaken for a trendy fashion model.” Even for the 1940s, let alone today, I don’t know that I’d go so far as to say that welding goggles were the accessory of any fashion models I recall ever seeing! But to be fair, maybe this wouldn’t be the case for a time traveler… what if he was merely visiting from a future where the breakdown in the ozone layer causes Earth to be bombarded with radiation so dangerous that welding goggles must be worn by everyone during daylight hours?

Nah… weighing the options, I’m 98.7 % certain this character was just a hipster; a slightly eccentric young observer who never would have guessed that his presence the day this photograph was taken might fuel such bizarre speculation about his origins more than half a century later. Regardless of the truth surrounding his presence in the photo above, it’s always fun to speculate about such things, right? After all, with physicists drawing nearer each day to understanding the science behind such things as time travel, we may be closer than we realize to unraveling this long-pondered mystery of space and the cosmos.

The Exopolitics world is alight with the recent claims of two separate whistleblowers, who’s independent stories both refer to top-secret, classified missions to Mars. They both claim they have “teleported” to the planet on several occasions since the 70′s.

Expect to hear more from these two as they will appear at Project Camelot’s Awake and Aware conference next week.

Also on this week’s episode we have all the recent UFO sightings from China, new Cryptozoological expeditions to Malaysia, and the latest in Science news to keep our feet on the ground.

Hit the jump for show notes and music.

Boomerang-shaped UFO reported near MacDill Air Force Base

UFO over Ohio town shape shifts from football to crescent shape

UFO ‘filmed for 40 minutes’ by Chinese scientists during solar eclipse

UFO video from China eclipse leaked

Amazing UFO video taken above Beijing revealed

UFO sighting was fertiliser fire

Three ‘gray aliens’ spotted in woods at Unicoi State Park, Georgia

Two whistleblowers independently report teleporting to Mars and meeting Martian extraterrestrials

‘Henry Deacon’, a Livermore Physicist

The Barcelona Exopolitics Summit

Part 1/39 A Conversation with Andrew D. Basiago Part

Mount George NSW July 2009 – Yowie Sighting

Davies Expedition To Depart

Lost world of fanged frogs and giant rats discovered in Papua New Guinea

Ancient Chinese Remedy May Work for Flu

The story of humans unravels

Derren Brown to reveal lottery secrets

How Derren Brown ‘predicted’ the lottery

13 REAL Haunted Places That Will Make You Cry for Mommy

BORLEY RECTORY

‘Smell of space’ strong, metallic and unique

No strain for Andromeda: Galaxy is cosmic cannibal

Monk Fly, Camilla Hill
“I Saw You First” (mp3)
from “An Afternoon with Camilla”
(The Frequency Lab)

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Stefan Mallmann
“Daily Dose” (mp3)
from “Daily Dose”
(2600 Music)

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Craque
“Tlit” (mp3)
from “Supple”
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Karen Young, �ric Auclair
“Circle of Seasons” (mp3)
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Final Track

Yelle – Ce Jeu (The Twelves Remix) via Electric Avenue

Recent advances in theoretical physics are making Star Trek style transporters a reality.

Separate research teams in the US, Australia and the UK have started making significant advances with the development of teleportation technology.

Described by Albert Einstein as “spooky action at a distance”, scientists have started exploiting the theory of quantum entanglement to facilitate the transportation of information and simple sub-atomic particles such as photons.

In broad terms, quantum entnaglement suggests that two photons (particles of light) can be created to behave as a single object even when separated by vast distance. Scientists in the UK have been successful in teleporting data over a distance of 89 miles through free space.

While “beaming” to and from work is far from being as common as a mobile phone, scientists believe at the very least the technology will revolutionize the information technology and telecommunication industries. Exploitation of quantum entanglement may allow the development of super fast quantum computer, never ending data storage capacity and unbreakable data encryption.

Rest assured thought, with continued research you might just be beaming out of dinner with your mother-in-law soon.

Beam me up Ben!

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