Hoax Site: Time Travel Mutual Fund

[coriolis]

http://www.timetravelfund.com/

Billed as "Your Ticket to the Future"

Q: How does this work?
A: Current scientific theory states that Time Travel may be possible, however the technology is a long way off, perhaps hundreds of years in the future. Now, assume it does become possible in say, 500 years. As with any technology, Time Travel will get less expensive as time goes on. Just as the price of a VCR has dropped to less than $70 from the several hundred dollars it cost just ten years ago, Time Travel, once it becomes feasible, will initially be very expensive yet it will become more and more economical as time goes by.
Click here to join!
Q: How does this help me?
A: The concept is that one day, it may be possible for people living far in the future to retrieve you from your current frame of reference (their past - your present) and bring you into the future (their present - your future.)

More info on this page!


Q: Why would they want to?
A: That is the purpose of the fund. The simple answer is, we pay them to bring you into the future.
"A hundred years ago, few people believed it possible for humans to travel through outer space. Time travel, like space travel, was merely science fiction. Today, spaceflight is almost commonplace. Might time travel one day become commonplace too?"
Paul Davies, "How to Build a Time Machine"

Q: How?
A: We establish a fund in current time. You make a small contribution to the fund, and in a few hundred years that small amount grows to a very large amount. From that fund, moneys will be taken and used to retrieve you, perhaps seconds after you join, perhaps even moments before your recorded death, perhaps some other point in your lifetime.

[Ed Mahmoud]

Anyone stupid enough to send money, well, the economic version of the Darwin Award.

[Ed Mahmoud]

I don't know if anyone actually e-mails back their bank account information to someone supposedly trying to smuggle large sums of money out of Nigeria, but if they do, ditto.



Unrelated, but 'Quantum Leap' was one of the last network shows I watched on a regular basis. I do watch 'The Office' with my wife. It is kinda funny.


Don't know what happened to Don Bellisario (sp?), but he could produce some good TV.

[coriolis]

more to come. I found a mother lode.

[Jack8631]

http://www.timetravelfund.com/

Billed as "Your Ticket to the Future"

Count me in! Instead of going to the future, I want to go to the past. You know, make some investments to cover my expenses so that when I actually join everything is taken care of beforehand. I should do well enough that when I get back to the present, there will be money left over to go back even further next time. Suppose I could go back further the first time, but it would take longer to get back to the present so maybe I'll take a stab at the future and elect an option that will put me somewhere between having enough to cover the investment and learning what happened to Jimmy Hoffa.

What where we talking about?