In a time when "connecting" with people across continents is as easy clicking a little red button beside a screenname, Paul St. George is offering a more "analog" method of encountering others. 

On Thursday, "an optical device called a "telectroscope" was placed at the Fulton Ferry Landing in Brooklyn and another one on the Thames River in London" enabling counterparts on the two continents to interact without the benefit of video conferencing or cable tv.  The exhibition continues through June 15.

"Spectators stepped up to the machine on both sides of the Atlantic and waved and wrote greetings to each other in real time on wipe-off message boards.  They told knock-knock jokes, asked about the weather and found time for a few shout-outs to Queen Elizabeth and the Manchester United soccer team."

Publicists will say only that it uses fiberoptic communication.  St. George is sticking with his own version.  Weaving a tale that begins with finding plans in his grandmother's attic, he sticks to his story that he discovered a secret tunnel under the Atlantic Ocean from New York to London which his great-grandfather began over a century ago.

Click the photos below to enlarge and check out the official website for more information and to read about this incredible "discovery."

via FoxNEWS and NYTimes

 

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