... how to emerge ill-equipped (if at all) in 500 years time ;)
Time Travel Fund is a real company. Their concept is that people living far into the future will be one day able to ‘retrieve’ you from your current frame of reference (their past - your present) and bring you into the future (their present - your future).
For the nominal fee of $10, an unspecified ‘percentage’ is placed into the fund, and the remainder is used for “website overheads, covering legal fees, paying for your certificate, and maintaining the database of members”.
According to their website, “you make a small contribution to the fund, and in a few hundred years that small amount grows to a very large amount”.
How ?
“As long as the interest earned out paces inflation and taxes, the money will eventually build to where the costs of retrieving, rejuvenating and supporting you are fully covered”.
('As long as' being the operative words). So then what happens ? ... Oookay, well, here’s where it starts to get sticky.
“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”.
Hmmm ...
"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".
It gets better ...
"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".
Yes. Course we can. Guesses. Super effort, that.
"There are no guarantees. None whatsoever. This is pure speculation, but it is a chance. Should something happen such as the people of the earth bombing themselves back to the stone age, you probably won't be retrieved'.
I see. Bummer !
Perhaps a "clone" of your body will be grown and inserted back in time to your point of death to take your place for the funeral".
Nassssty !
"The fund is not just limited to the living; you can contribute for a deceased loved one".
Dodgy ?
"They could be retrieved moments before their recorded death, just in the scenario above, or some other point in their lifetimes, and you meet them again in the future. The beauty of Time Travel used in this way is that it doesn't matter if they have already died or not. It's all relative".
It’s all relative !. Get it ... relative ? hehe
"The other person must be a close family member. Sorry, but we don't want you bringing Adolf Hitler or someone else evil like him back".
Oh, bother. There goes my plan. Criminy !
The scary thing is, they’re utterly genuine. All quotes from: Link