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The trouble with time travel is that if you go to the past and step on a butterfly, that butterfly’s family will then travel to the future and murder you and everyone you love.
We can’t remember how that old adage goes, actually. That makes the Chronovisor,?invented by Father Pellegrino Ernetti, quite convenient. On it, you see, you can view the past without disturbing it – TV style.
The paranormal world can stand impressively on it’s own two feet until you ask for concrete evidence of this or that. When that happens the whole thing can crumble right before an unbeliever’s eyes. Believers though – well they’re busy making evidence of their own – like the Spiricom – remember that thing? It was the machine that communicated with the dead. A few conversations using it were?caught on tape – including one where the dead guy talked carrots. It’s fascinating, really.
And then there’s the Psychomanteum. That’s used for dead talking too, but it uses a lot less wires and circuit boards than the Spiricom.
Now the Chronovisor, on the other hand, it doesn’t talk to the dead – but it will let you see them. In the past we mean. Because it’s a time travel machine. Not the kind that leaves flaming skid marks – no – those one’s actually transport you to the past. Hypothetically. The Chronovisor just lets you view transpired events from the comfort of your favourite arm chair.
This according to Wikipedia:
“The chronovisor was portrayed as a large cabinet with a normal cathode ray tube for viewing the received events and a series of buttons, levers, and other controls for selecting the time and the location to be viewed. It could also focus and track specific people. According to its inventor, it worked by receiving, decoding and reproducing the electromagnetic radiation left behind from past events, though it could also pick up sound waves.”
Now if you had a machine like that, what would you tune in to first? The murder of JFK? Roswell? Your horny parents conceiving you?
Well if you were a Catholic priest, you’d probably want to watch the crucifixion. And photograph it. Like it says the machine’s inventor Father Pellegrino Ernetti did here on Wikipedia:
“He said that he observed, among other historical events, Christ’s crucifiction and photographed it. A photo of this, Ernetti said, appeared in the May 2, 1972 issue of La Domenica del Corriere, an Italian weekly news magazine.”
Obviously there was a lot of doubt and scepticism regarding Ernetti’s claims. The picture of the crucified Christ (see attached), for instance, looked an awful lot like a wood carving made by?some famous or not-famous pocket knife sculptor.
To top it off, there were rumours that on his death bed Ernetti took it all back in a last ditch effort to not walk through the pearly gates with a weird lie in tow.
Also, he said the machine got dismantled in the Vatican or something – so just because nobody can show it to you doesn’t mean it never existed. If you’re the type of person who?needs to see it to believe it, well, you’re probably never gonna believe it, and you’re stupid anyway. Right, Ernetti?
If it did exist it’s a real shame it’s been reduced to a pile of pieces. Think of all the murders that could be solved with something like that. Also – you could keep rewinding and watching that one awesome game-saving catch you made in the seventh grade that caused your teammates to hoist you on shoulder and carry you briskly through a shower of ticker tape and the keys to several cities.
Man, back then you were good, weren’t you?
If only your dad had brought his stupid camera.
Your kids will never believe you.
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Lu Glasso says
That’s awesome
Jean Luc says
First, obviously the Chronovisor is a hoax.
Second, did you ever study grammar? Is this website called hecklerspray because you want US to heckle YOU? That article read like it was written by a 7th grader. Ah, but this is the internet, you probably ARE a 7th grader… And a rather dumb one at that.
GrammarQueen says
Hey, Jean Luc: you just got pwned by grammar.
Write me back for a line-by-line discussion on your mental poverty, and possible cures.
Stick that in your dilithium crystals and smoke it, baldy.
Wil Edison says
First, Jean Luc.. Your a total Hoax, and being your a gay Star Trek Next generation Fan, I could Only say your a failed Musician, and are probably a Flowerbower.
Drums are gay. Your gay. a crappy teacher of nothing
chris says
you’re*