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Maybe this should go in hoaxes, but I wasn't sure. I'll stick it here for now. I was poking around that back alleys of the internet and came across a
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Maybe this should go in hoaxes, but I wasn't sure. I'll stick it here for now.
I was poking around that back alleys of the internet and came across a website for a time travel investment fund. The gist of it is that you pay $10 a month, a "percentage" of which is then banked for you. Then, 500 years in the future or in some equally nonsensical timespace, that "percentage" has collected so much interest that you're rich. You're future rich, that is. Then, since they obviously have time machines in the future, they come pick you up in one and bring you back, or perhaps forward, to your super-cool mansion of the future. I'm sure there are lots of hot cyborg clonebabes too, and we all know cyborg clonebabes love money.
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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. Further, the fund may even pay to have you "rejuvenated" medically (assuming this is scientifically possible at that time,) and support you financially for a number of years. (Note: Retrieving you just before the moment of death is just one possible scenario, but one that would avoid any Star Trek(TM) type paradoxes. There are an unlimited number of other possibilities, and we do not know what they will do, we can only make reasonably informed guesses.)
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Hmmmm! sounds familiar. that was the premis behind being able to eat at "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe" ... a Dougla Adams book. I like the idea!
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I remember this used to be an affiliate or something way back when we were the Time Travel Forum. It's an interesting idea, but it smells like a scam to me.
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I saw this awhile ago I wonder if its still going on .If they have time machines in the future than maybe its a big company in the future. Maybe we started it in the the future?
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I saw this awhile ago I wonder if its still going on .If they have time machines in the future than maybe its a big company in the future. Maybe we started it in the the future?
At least the scammers had the consideration to be unique in their approach
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Once you realize you pissed away your money, you're already dead
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I have to say that I like the inventive nature of this particular hoax.. It kinda reminds me of another such program called Social Security. The simularites are about the same. You invest a small amount of money, wait X amount of years for it to mature, and whammo! You are pitifully old and realize that you wasted your time. Someone needs to unfreeze Walt Disney for this one....lol
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Maybe this should go in hoaxes, but I wasn't sure. I'll stick it here for now.
I was poking around that back alleys of the internet and came across a website for a time travel investment fund. The gist of it is that you pay $10 a month, a "percentage" of which is then banked for you. Then, 500 years in the future or in some equally nonsensical timespace, that "percentage" has collected so much interest that you're rich. You're future rich, that is. Then, since they obviously have time machines in the future, they come pick you up in one and bring you back, or perhaps forward, to your super-cool mansion of the future. I'm sure there are lots of hot cyborg clonebabes too, and we all know cyborg clonebabes love money.
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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. Further, the fund may even pay to have you "rejuvenated" medically (assuming this is scientifically possible at that time,) and support you financially for a number of years. (Note: Retrieving you just before the moment of death is just one possible scenario, but one that would avoid any Star Trek(TM) type paradoxes. There are an unlimited number of other possibilities, and we do not know what they will do, we can only make reasonably informed guesses.)
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I have to say that I like the inventive nature of this particular hoax.. It kinda reminds me of another such program called Social Security. The simularites are about the same. You invest a small amount of money, wait X amount of years for it to mature, and whammo! You are pitifully old and realize that you wasted your time. Someone needs to unfreeze Walt Disney for this one....lol
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