[4eyes] [random] Inspirational Past: Retronaut

[Saiph Savage]

A website I just discovered, very lovely. Tons of old photographs and
imagery organized into categories such as “Things That Time Forgot” and
“Famous People Hanging Out”.



Here of course was my favorite set:

http://www.retronaut.co/2011/11/black-cat-auditions-in-hollywood-1961/





>From a CNN article about this site:

“

*Become a Retronaut**
This one might be a cop-out, but many scientists (including Hawking) argue
that time travel to the past is paradoxical and potentially impossible. In
lieu of a Wayback machine, we can turn to the work of Chris Wild, who
created a website about his experiments with being a being a Retronaut.
That is, a person who travels into the past by exploring perceptions of
time. Whether by looking at old pictures juxtaposed with new ones (which we
experimented with at CNN iReport a few weeks ago) or hunting anachronisms,
Wild’s site hints that time travel may be all in your head.”*

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Saiph Savage
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