Back in 2004, SLW wrote about the mysterious disappearance of FAQ 19--the securities equivalent of "Area 51"--from the SEC's website.  FAQ 19, of course, was the following playful (?) Q&A about a time-traveling insider trader that read as follows:

"Question: Is the Andrew Carlssin case for real?

Your Answer: Many investors and other members of the public have asked us about news reports concerning the Andrew Carlssin, an alleged "time-traveler" who supposedly made a fortune in the stock market by trading in the year 2003 based on information gleaned from his travels to the future. The reports appear to be a hoax. The SEC has not, in fact, brought an enforcement action against any such person."

FAQ 19 vanished from the SEC's website at some point in 2004 (but can be seen here on this cached version if you are patient enough to let it load), prompting me to joke in this post that "Clearly something is going on.   If the SEC has now confirmed the existence of this time-traveling insider trader, then doggone it, just tell us.  We can handle it.  I think."  (That post from November 2004, in turn, prompted MANY people interested in time-travel to visit the SLW blog then and to this day, helping me to realize that the number of people interested in time-travel exceeds the number of people interested in securities litigation).

All of this is a long-winded way of saying that the SEC should not shut down its time-travel enforcement program just yet.  According to this article, a professor at U. Conn.  has designed a time machine and he says that, after he completes about a decade's-worth of experiments "and depending on breakthroughs, technology, and funding, I believe that human time travel could happen this century.”