I just received this rather non-humorous letter from the folks over at the
Time Travel Mutual Fund:
Hello Alex,
I see you have our site, The Time Travel Fund, listed in your museum
of hoaxes.(www.TimeTravelFund.com)
I am writing you to ask that you remove us from your site. We are not
a hoax; we are serious in what we are attempting to do. Your site
lists us as being a hoax as if it were a fact, not as simply being
your personal opinion.
While you are certainly entitled to your opinion, presenting it as a
fact and not an opinion is slander.
This raises a dilemma for me. I do, in fact, list the Time Travel Fund in my gallery of hoax websites, having assumed that the site was a kind of cute, tongue-in-cheek idea whose main purpose was to sell $10 certificates that people could hang on their wall as a joke, rather than really being in the business of fund management. But if they're perfectly serious about their time travel fund, then that makes it a kooky site, rather than a hoax site. Should I keep the site on the list? I'm not sure.
I'm inclined to keep it on there just to annoy them because I don't like their legalistic threat about me slandering them. But I think the best thing to do would be to keep their site in the list, but add a disclaimer noting that while I thought the Fund was a joke, the fund managers themselves seem to take their task very seriously.
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Also, the disclaimers have "scam" written all over them. The most obvious states that there is no guarantee that it will work. So if doesn't work, you can't even sue them because they already have a disclaimer saying there's a good chance it won't work.
If I want to go back in time, I want to go back in time to a time I WANT. I would want to use a time machine to go back to a set date that I want.
Cheers,
Jastin from <A >panama</A>
They might "revive" you when you really wanted to die too!
yahoooooooooooooooo........
Inorder to complete full time travel...first you need an old Delouren and a flex copasatator, make sure you have ajug of gasoline just incase you run out in a year were that has not been produced....then turn on you car and gun it to 88!!!
really?
To those who said it's a scam because it's not guaranteed, well DUH, it's not guaranteed! No one can know if time travel will be possible in the future or not. You should be happy with them for being very clear about this in the disclaimer.
It would be pretty silly to sue them. You know it's a risk you're taking when you join; personally, I think $10 for a small chance at visiting the future is a risk I'm willing to take.
Its a little bit more expensive than timetravelfund.com
And by the way, I've heard professionals with years of "schooling" and experience misuse libel and slander... slander is a more broad term and both come under the heading of defamation of character... if you defame someone's character in the form of some media, you are being libelous AND slanderous - ie, if someone defamed you in print, and someone else asked you what happened, you wouldn't say, "they libeled me by writing something bad about me", you'd say, "they slandered me by writing something bad about me." The use of the those terms, while not interchangeable, is understood, except by the self-righteous, who just have a need call out the mistakes or misunderstandings of everyone else. And as far as the "I don't see ANY legitimatacy in this." Criminy, (refer to the 'fun'and 'lighten up' comment).
I linked to your website because i found it funny and thought you would like the publicity.
Sorry for any damage done
I think that time travel holds great potential but also great thret to human kind if someone was to get control of this device and use it for evil or to change people time lines then we would all be seriously screwed. I think that the government should clamp down on sites like this for the saftey of the future and the poeple living in society. Dont get me wrong im sure they are really nice guys but if youre asking me to trust my entire life history and probable historys to them, I think it is a gamble only the fool harted should take.
I would not call this site a hoxe as anything is possible if we can imagine it and concieve it then i guess it should be taken seriously. What if somone has already gone back in time and puposely flawed are time line history and future, it has to be the only explanationa s to why great disasters like the titanic etc has been allowed to take place. I am still sceptical about the whole idea but people are good at keeping things a secret and i bet we will never know if time travel is in fact possible even if we do infact manage to survive as a human race into the future.