Mr. N and I were talking about it at dinner tonight -- I do think it's kind of a fun thing to speculate on. *g*
And if they really were a Time Traveller, surely they would have a more discrete communication device!
Yes, this! Some kind of implanted device, or perhaps even some way of making themselves essentially telepathic. Whatever it might be, it's entirely possible we wouldn't understand it at all. As Arthur C. Clarke said -- "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
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Date: 2010-10-29 02:43 am (UTC)And if they really were a Time Traveller, surely they would have a more discrete communication device!
Yes, this! Some kind of implanted device, or perhaps even some way of making themselves essentially telepathic. Whatever it might be, it's entirely possible we wouldn't understand it at all. As Arthur C. Clarke said -- "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
:-)