Teleportation mystery, or just bad cameras?

At the drugstore today, we developed film from three disposable cameras. Cole and Owen used two of the cameras in DC a couple of weeks ago, while the third held photos that have to be at least three years old.

One photo taken in DC appears to show me eating Chinese take out just as I'm beamed up to a UFO:

While another, from the older camera, shows a younger version of me on the deck of the flying Saucer:

The mystery—how could I appear on the UFO before I was abducted? And why can I remember none of this actually happening?

Googlechat with Cole

4:25 PM Cole: hello
me: hi
Cole: :(|)
4:26 PM me: :(|)
Cole: :):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):
me: remarkably similar to our last conversation
Cole: when in doubt, emote
me: ah
;-)
Cole: }:-)
4:27 PM <3 :P :D
me: }-)
whoops
}:-)
whoops again
}:-)
Cole: hold on mommy is calling
4:28 PM I'm back
me: ok
P)
4:29 PM Cole: :(:):(:):(:):(:):(:):(:)
me: B)
Cole: B-)
me: B-)
Cole: thats better
me: B(
B-(
Cole: +/'\
me: ;)
it winks
;)
Cole: look at the cowbell
4:30 PM me: cowbell?
Cole: +/'\
me: +/\
Cole: run over it with your mouse
me: + /\
+/ \
4:31 PM Cole: that is not it it's + / ' \
me: +/'\
aj
aj
ah
Cole: yesssssssss
apple juice
me: bye I have to send an email
Cole: gtg

Amazing

According to flickr:

(You're the only person who has used 'water polo' as a tag)

What?! I only went to my first water polo game today. It's hard to believe no one else has tagged a photo that way.

no seer ever prophesied more truthfully

One hundred years ago in Nature magazine:

[OK, maybe not exactly one hundred years ago. I've got a big stack of magazines I'm trying to wade through..]

14 Feb 1907 issue:

Death has been very busy of late among the army of men of science [...] Our immediate concern is with Dmitri Ivanovitsch Mendeleeff [...] he was a Siberian, born at Tobolsk on February 7th (N.S.), 1834. He died, therefore, within a week of his seventy-third birthday. he was the seventeenth and youngest child of Ivan Paolowitch Mendeleeff [...] The story of the rise and development of the Periodic Law is so well known that it is unnecessary now to dwell upon it. By a good fortune, which some may regard as evidence of predestination, Mendeleeff lived to see the verification of his predictions in the discovery, in rapid succession, of gallium, scandium, and germanium; and no seer ever prophesied more truthfully.

[from the 14 Feb 2007 issue]