Awesome Or Off-Putting: Time Travel Devices For Sale - Cheap

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This week: Time Travel

Steven Gibbs is a man who claims he was contacted by time travellers and given the schematics for how exactly to build his own era-jumping machine. He's since built one, and claims to have successfully travelled. Not only that - but he sells the machines so that you can travel too.

Other people have bought the time-devices and even successfully used them, or so goes the claim anyway.

For just $350 you could be the proud owner of a time machine invented/modified by Steven Gibbs, a man who built his first device in 1985. He believes in his apparatus so much he's listed his personal cell phone number online so that you can call him directly to talk about it, and/or place an order.

From what we gather, for the invention to work you have to be standing in one of many exact-right spots called grid points. The device opens a bubble of sorts when activated, and transports you.

Once you arrive in the new time, you can leave the bubble but you have to be in it when it collapses back to the original time - or you're stuck.

Radio show Coast to Coast sums up Gibbs' description of the time travelling process:

"In order to physically travel through time, Gibbs explained, the device must be activated near a vortex for three minutes. The user will see a flash of white light or feel a sinking sensation and be projected into another time. The HDR has a 500-year limit, Gibbs noted."

Gibbs once told a website called American Antigravity about a time he almost got stuck in 1977. It's an interesting read:

“We fired the machine up but didn’t seem to notice the effect, and we eventually got bored and went shopping. Fortunately, the time bubble stayed open, because as it turns out we’d gone shopping in 1977. My first clue was when the person at the bookstore’s cash-register told me that the date on my check was incorrect, but she didn’t make me fix it and I neglected to find out what the correct date was. However, when we got back to the house we realized that the receipt and all of the brand-new books that we’d purchased were dated 1977, and realized how close we’d come to getting stranded.”

He also spoke of a client of his who allegedly travelled back to 1850. That gentleman brought back some coins as a souvenir - he gave one to the machine's inventor.

Not all people who purchased the machine could get it to work, however, as Rob Dyrdek of MTV's Rob and Big will testify. He owns two machines and tried one of them out on his show. You can guess the results from the paragraph's first sentence.

Whether or not the machine works we can't say - but if Gibbs wants to send us one we'd be happy to look into it.

Read More:

Successful Time Travel? - Think-About It.com

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