# Spot the Time Traveller **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 1, 2011, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spot-the-time-traveller/591017 "2011-08-01T08:13:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Full\_Metal\_Lotus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df705f/32.png) [@Full\_Metal\_Lotus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Full_Metal_Lotus)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2011, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spot-the-time-traveller/591017/1 "2011-08-01T08:13:48Z")
So, out of history and upto the present, who (and why) do you think is a time traveller? Half the wierded out homeless bums or street people. They really have little social connection so their “mad ravings” don’t create paradoxes, and they get to see a lot. Its a “low budget” time-tourist trip for them. Sure every down town has a core of genuine homeless people, but among them move time travellers, mostly as “Chrono- tourists”. ---
**Author:** ![Shakester](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shakester/32/437_2.png) [@Shakester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shakester)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2011, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spot-the-time-traveller/591017/2 "2011-08-01T09:47:55Z")
Untreated mental illness =/= time-traveller. ---
**Author:** ![Alka\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2011, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spot-the-time-traveller/591017/3 "2011-08-01T09:59:40Z")
Anyone who wins the lottery is clearly a time traveller. Really, the odds against picking the winning numbers are millions to one. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2011, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spot-the-time-traveller/591017/4 "2011-08-01T10:02:53Z")
> [@Alka\_Seltzer](#): > > Anyone who wins the lottery is clearly a time traveller. Really, the odds against picking the winning numbers are millions to one. That’s because they’re taking the good ones. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2011, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spot-the-time-traveller/591017/5 "2011-08-01T12:22:52Z")
I reckon that big muscley guy with the Austrian accent is suspiciously… I won’t finish that lame predictable joke. I reckon that the [John Titor](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Titor) situation really could work as a movie, where it’s completely ambiguous right up to the end of the film, where they finally reveal if he was real or not. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2011, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spot-the-time-traveller/591017/6 "2011-08-01T12:57:55Z")
[This guy.](http://forgetomori.com/2010/fortean/time-traveler-caught-in-museum-photo/) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Alka\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2011, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spot-the-time-traveller/591017/7 "2011-08-01T16:33:06Z")
> [@Ranchoth](#): > > [This guy.](http://forgetomori.com/2010/fortean/time-traveler-caught-in-museum-photo/) 😃 Nice one. ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2011, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spot-the-time-traveller/591017/8 "2011-08-01T19:19:24Z")
Leonardo da Vinci. Obviously.