{"id":90,"date":"2003-04-18T10:11:16","date_gmt":"2003-04-18T16:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/?p=90"},"modified":"2003-04-18T10:11:16","modified_gmt":"2003-04-18T16:11:16","slug":"timetraveller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/2003\/04\/18\/timetraveller\/","title":{"rendered":"TimeTraveller?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, here&#8217;s a new angle&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/tv.yahoo.com\/news\/wwn\/20030319\/104808600007.html\">news story from Yahoo<\/a> about a guy who claims to be a time traveller who &#8220;knows&#8221; what the market is going to do.  He started with an $800 portfolio and in two weeks made over <b>$350 <i>million<\/i><\/b>!  What&#8217;s interesting is that no one can seem to find any record of the name this guy is using prior to December of 2002.  He&#8217;s apparently claimed that he&#8217;ll tell us where Osama Bin Laden is and how to cure AIDS as proof that he comes from the future.  Well, I&#8217;m game!<\/p>\n<p>This does point out, though, why that old sci-fi favorite of travelling back in time to buy the right stocks on the stock market wouldn&#8217;t work.  You&#8217;d have to be pretty darn careful or someone, somewhere would notice.  On the other hand, it could just be an interesting plot twist.  Of course, there&#8217;s still the old lottery gambit.  You know, going back and getting a ticket with the winning numbers on it.  Hmm&#8230;  That one has some possibilities.  Oh, and combine the two and you&#8217;d have an interesting tale of greed!  Of course, time-travel is really more the realm of fantasy than science-fiction.  Asimov came up with some <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/naran500\/features\/time_travel.html\">rules about time travel<\/a> that seem pretty solid to me.  He was, after all, an actual scientist and a genius to boot.  Also, he&#8217;s still one of the most prolific writers of our time.  Still, those time travel stories have always piqued my curiosity&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>[ <i>Posted by mail via mail2mt.pl<\/i> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, here&#8217;s a new angle&#8230; Here&#8217;s a news story from Yahoo about a guy who claims to be a time traveller who &#8220;knows&#8221; what the market is going to do. He started with an $800 portfolio and in two weeks made over $350 million! What&#8217;s interesting is that no one can seem to find any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,16,14],"tags":[185,183,184,154,91],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-e-mail-entry","category-fiction-and-its-kin","category-news-and-current-events","tag-osama-bin-laden","tag-time-travel","tag-time-travel-stories","tag-usd","tag-yahoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}