Invest in the future

Travel through time to collect your investments

[Syzygy]

For the best return on your investments, don't think of the long term as being 15-25 years. Consider the gains you can make over five centuries - yes, you read that right - five centuries. Indeed, why not even longer?

This company can make your dreams come true if you want to invest in the future; your future and maybe even the future of a loved one - your pet for example - and believe in the possibilities of...

Time Travel [timetravelfund.com]...

You have to read it to believe it - and even then you won't...

Syzygy

[Leosghost]

Luv it ...luv it....wish I'd thought of it ...hope they make oodles!

[TheDoctor]

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe sounds a lot more fun, and it's cheaper. A meal at the restaurant only costs a penny, while this little lot want a whole ten dollars.

[edit_g]

We should see some results fairly soon then... So most of the fools and their money in the world should soon disappear... This could work out pretty well for all concerned. ;)

[Syzygy]

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe...

A meal at the restaurant only costs a penny...

But that's a long way to go to spend a penny ;-)

Syzygy

[trillianjedi]

Genius. I like the Q and A section, especially stuff like:-

Q: Wow!
A: Yeah, Wow!

It's a beautiful thing.

TJ

[Go2]

An absolute master piece in terms of creative income opportunity thinking. But they never answered how the money is going to be refunded if time travel is proved impossible...

[SEOMike]

Q: How much will this cost me?
A: Our fee is only $10, of which a percentage is placed into the fund, to grow and earn interest, and the rest is used to pay for overhead in running the website, covering legal fees, paying for your certificate, and maintaining the database of members.

Beautiful! 99.9% will probably go to pay "overhead" haha.

If it costs ten billion dollars to bring you into the future...

I thought they said it would be economical! haha

Boy... they almost had me by the end of reading that page. However, at that point, my color perception was so messed up by peering at the black text on a blue background, that I completely missed the join now button and clicked "X" instead. Oh well.

What a GREAT find!

[trillianjedi]

I've just thought of a better idea - how about you "invest" $20, of which half goes to the scientists in the future to bring you back, and the other half goes into an investment fund in your name, for when you get there?

Let's face it, if it's going to work, then the instant I send them my $10, someone from the future will be knocking on my door inviting me to step into the machine, right?

Even better idea, I'll run a book on the number of posts that WebmasterWorld will have accumulated by the time.... hang on - knock on the door.....

TJ

[graywolf]

It seems there is no limit to people's creativity or stupidity.

[greenleaves]

That was a work of genious.

You also get a signed certificate on acid-free paper mailed to you

Pure genious

[SEOMike]

how about you "invest" $20, of which half goes to the scientists in the future to bring you back

TJ-

I'd be happy to accept your donation to the cause of time travel. A percentage of it will go to time travel research (been wanting a DeLorean for a long time!) Just be sure to wear a tin foil hat all the time so the people from the future can locate you :)

[oldskool79]

Many time travel scenarios that allow time travel to the past only work up to the point that the time machine was created. In that case, the fund will be worthless.

Also, there is a contradiction in the first paragraph of the site where it answers "How does this work?". The site states "time Travel will get less expensive as time goes on". Once time travel is possible, then people can just go to the future and get the cheaper time machines and bring them back. Who needs to wait for the price to come down?

Also, if time travel were possible, money would become essentially worthless so this invesment fund would be useless. It would be impossible to invest money if everyone knew the future. Example, I buy stock A, and then see in the future it is going to go down. So I go back in the past and don't buy it, etc. etc.

In any case, this is a pretty creative way to raise money.

[Teshka]

Wait, wait, I saw this on Stargate.... We'd all cease to exist if the person who came to get me was my grandfather's uncle's brother-in-law's next-door-neighbor's former roommate's pool boy...

Uhm, what was the question?

[Syzygy]

Once time travel is possible, then people can just go to the future and get the cheaper time machines and bring them back. Who needs to wait for the price to come down?

oldskool79 - yeah, but that's working on the premise that, should time travel be possible, it will be available to anyone. Like we'll all have our time machines parked in the garage...;-)

Can you imagine the ultra-insecure US government allowing any ol' crackpot from East or West to travel backwards or forwards in time - or even own a time travelling device? Doubt it (well, unless they were to do it themselves of course ala Stargate).

Surely time travel in the early stages of it's practical existance would solely be utilised and controlled by the military. Indeed who's to say that the fact we could time travel would even be made public. Hey, then perhaps we can already - maybe THEY are here already. Alternatively, maybe we are already THERE...

Just imagine George Bush time travelling back to lands with current oil reserves and 'conquering' them in the past...

Syzygy

[oldskool79]

Syzygy - It would be impossible for the US Government to regulate time travel once its possible. Remember, with a time machine, time is irrelevant. Unless the government regulates time travel for eternity, then someone from the future can always come back with more time machines.

And if they somehow did manage to stop this, then the Time Travel Fund would still be useless.

[Syzygy]

And if they somehow did manage to stop this, then the Time Travel Fund would still be useless.

Damn, that's $10 wasted...;-)

Syzygy

[trillianjedi]

Just be sure to wear a tin foil hat all the time so the people from the future can locate you

Yup, still waiting though.

Did you put fuel in the DeLorean?

TJ

[hannamyluv]

You also get a signed certificate on acid-free paper mailed to you

See, I was thinking that for the certificate and the laugh I would get in presenting it to a loved one as a gag gift would be worth the $10. ;)

[SEOMike]

Did you put fuel in the DeLorean?

Yep, but couldn't afford all the parts for the Flux Capacitor in order to produce 1.21 Jigawatts... which is why we need your help folks.

I was thinking that for the certificate and the laugh I would get in presenting it to a loved one as a gag gift would be worth the $10

It'd be even better if the certificate said something to the effect of "This certificate proves that the bearer is a complete idiot and will throw money at anything"

[trillianjedi]

Yep, but couldn't afford all the parts for the Flux Capacitor

Walmart have these on sale for $12 in the year 2087.

So the other guy in the silver hat tells me.

TJ

[TheDoctor]

Did you put fuel in the DeLorean?

An old-style British police box has a lot more room inside IMHO ;)

[Leosghost]

It'd be even better if the certificate said something to the effect of "This certificate proves that the bearer is a complete idiot and will throw money at anything

depends on the value you put on a smile ..I think 10 bucks is reel cheap to see my loved ones ( or anyone for that matter ) smile ...:)