You can buy a star or buy a plot on the moon (Neither of these are legal by the way), but did you know you can deposit $10 and, when time travel is perfected, be retrieved moments before your death and taken to the future?

That’s exactly what the Time Travel Fund promises.  Deposit $10 and they will put it in a “Trust Fund” along with all the other deposits they receive to earn interest for hundreds of years.  This money will be used to finance your life in the future, assuming that interest is 5%, in 500 years you would be a billionaire in today’s dollars.  That, of course, also assumes money will be used 500 years from now.

So, how does this work?  well the site goes into detail but here is the short version:

You deposit $10 and when time travel is perfected (say 500 years from now) the money will be used to finance an effort to go back in time, perhaps moments before your recorded death, and bring you to the future.  Here, technology permitting, you will be restored to a young age and have perhaps several hundred years of life left ahead of you.  Enjoying that life with the money that has, for 500 years, compounded interest.

Could you imagine how this would go down?  You deposit the $10 today and 20 years from now, you’re on your death bed, having completely forgotten that you were stupid enough to fall for this crap, and out of nowhere a couple of guys appear at the foot of your bed, maybe attach something to your ankle, and you are transported to the future where you are placed in another hospital and magically restored to youth in some fountain of youth scenario.

Of course they make no guarantees that you will be “retrieved”.  Who knows, maybe mankind will blow up itself and in 500 years be back in the stone age, or aliens might take over the planet making all humans slaves.  Or monkeys might fly out of everyone’s butts and the smelly monkeys will take over the world in some scary, stinky Planet of the Apes thing.

The things people will fall for amazes me to no end.  I see more chance of having my head cut off and frozen in the hopes that some time in the future they might be able to pop my head on some android body and bring my brain back to life.

Enjoy the future!

UPDATE:  When I found this rather unusual site, I was actually surfing looking for information on the physics and other things it would take to travel back in time.  From that searching, I discovered that, according to most theoretical scientists like Steven Hawking, if the ability to go back in time was discovered and perfected, it would never be possible to go back in time beyond the date that the time machine was invented.  This, according to Hawking, is why we do not see “Time Tourists” running around.  So, if the time machine was invented tomorrow (8/25/08), then you could never go into the past beyond that time, say to 8/24/08 because at that time there was no such thing as a time machine to allow it to happen.  All of this, of course, is theoretical.  So, in order for this site to achieve what it wants to, the time machine would have to be invented some time before your death.  After that, they would never be able to go back in time to a point where you were alive.

Just something to think about.  Let me know your thoughts on time travel.