Does it say something about our priorities as a species that before space tourism has even been proven safe for and desirable to the masses, people are already coming up with ways to spend money in zero gravity? Well according to a group of researchers from the University of Leicester and the UK's National Space Centre, the payment methods we use here on Earth would not make for viable space currency -- due to sharp edges or radiation-prone magnetic strips -- and would need to be replaced with something more suited to the environment. Enter the Quasi Universal Intergalactic Denomination (or QUID -- clever Brits), a stackable, molded chip made of the same material used in non-stick pans, and lacking the chemicals or sharpness inherent to paper, plastic, and coins. The inventors peg the current exchange rate for the QUID at £6.25 to 1Q, which seems not only completely arbitrary, but fairly unnecessary, considering that we'll have already spent all our Earth money (and probably re-financed the house) to pay
Sir Richard for the damn flight. Keep reading to peep all five colorful denominations...
[Via
BBC]
posted Oct 8th 2007 11:06AM
I reading comment and alot say damn american naming it after british coin last I checked UK's National Space Centre is part of the united kingdom which is england the damn british people can't even read to see their country made the new currency.
who uses actual money these days? im sure itll be all stored in some sort of digital form by the time we get out there long term. either by some sort of mobile pda/phone type deal or some sort of smart card.
It's so english to come up with a universal currency and call it a quid (slang for pound), peg it to the pound in their attempt to put an english stamp on everything.
But, didn't they vote against a unifying currency the Euro?
Yeah that's mostly because we (brits) didn't invent it and didn't think of it first. :P
Moreover, it's not even a 1:1 exchange rate quid to QUID. Quid Pro Quo, so to speak.
Sorry, the pun potential here is unfathomable.
There has never been a referendum on the euro.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_economic_tests
Psst... guys... not trying to rain on your parade but... ever heard of the internets, virtual cash, and all that? I am afraid by the time we need them, your QUIDs will have become Quasi Useless Intergalactic Denominations.
@Jean-Michel Decombe
Ummm.... so you're going to wait 32 minutes for the round-trip signal to PayPal from Mars are you? Way to think on a large scale. Did you even read the linked article?
@Jean-Michel
Yes I agree this is useless, but never underestimate this species' capacity for vices.
And nothing keeps your vices under wraps like good ole' untraceable cash; in any form.
Virtual cash can come but it won't replace cash.
@Jean-Michel
Yes I agree this is useless, but never underestimate this species' capacity for vices.
And nothing keeps your vices under wraps like good ole' untraceable cash; in any form.
Virtual cash can come but it won't replace cash.
@Mike:
Sorry, the Man doesn't pay me to think on a large scale, he just pays me to say funny things.
Anyway, the limitations you suggest will be overcome. It's nice to think on a large scale but, as history has proven many times over, it's much better to think out of the box.
Yes, I'm sure that pesky speed-of-light limitation can be overcome with enough effort. Maybe the Americans can do something constructive along those lines instead of just blowing the crap out of everything on this planet?
Well, I don't want to dwell on that issue forever (there are researchers out there already hard at work brainstorming on the "intergalactic internet", as Vint Cerf dubbed it) but if you can't beat the speed of light, you can still use replication and delayed synchronization to achieve your goals. That is a first trivial, 10-second attempt at thinking of a solution, so I can only imagine that the problem will indeed be solved.
I won't even touch your unfair characterization of what America is all about.
Where do you think the technology we have now comes from? It was learned from looking for more efficient ways to blow the crap out of everything!
Yeah, and everybody knows that the galactic currency are "Credits" ;)
@ Cagrino
Untracable cash? Which century are you living in? Both the U.S. and U.K. are printing bills with embedded RFID tags in them. And once the National ID (which will also have RFID) goes live here in the states next year, it will easy to associate cash with people. Just add scanners in the registers' cash drawers linked up to a national database and you'll be able to trace that "untracable" dollar bill all the way back to the mint. The paper trail has been redefined.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/022904rfidtagsexplode.html
@John
Wow, just wow, do I even need to touch that one?
First off, the RFID in these bills in EURO are not individual, they have 20 ID's, 50 Id's, 100 Id's etc. etc.
Also, the strips in american money are not behind Jacksons eye, but off to the right. Also, the composition of this strip is polyester, a plastic, which would be the WORST anteannae ever.
So plz, from now on before you try to post myth as fact, look it up on trusty ole' snopes. also, a link to the article pertaining to this.
http://http://www.snopes.com/business/money/strip.asp
Wahay!
At last I get to see my home town mentioned on engadget.
I'm so happy - I think I could just cryyy!
Yeah... I don't see how those would fit in a cash register. Those would get turned down simply for the fact that the whole world would have to throw away cash registers, and that alone would have to be made into it's own landfill. In doing so, the whole world's orbit would shift a degree, stopping 'global warming', pissing Al Gore off so much that he will actually go and hunt down the ever elusive 'ManBearPig', pegging it as the single greatest threat to the UNIVERSE!
You dont need to get rid of registers, if you've ever noticed the part of the register that actually holds the money is just a plastic insert, so replace the inserts. No problem.
You're an idiot.
I bet you 100 QUID that you're wrong and the QUID will be in our foreseeable future.
So much for small pockets... I wonder if they realize that money will likely not be in the form of physical objects in the future...
And what's up with the "stackable" property assigned to these? They look like they'd fall over if you stacked them.
things fall in zero g?
No, but they definitely float. The "sock" idea they had would hold them together, but you still have the non-flat surfaces and overly fat currency to deal with. It would be like carrying around billiard balls in a sock. Tell me the police wouldn't be keeping a close eye on you if you walked into a bank with a sock full of billiard balls or soap. If they were truly, "stackable" they'd have a flat surface with some sort of attraction method like a magnet or something like Velcro.
>> things fall in zero g?
When in orbit you are in a constant state of free fall. So yes - they'd be falling all over place, along with you... and likely your breakfast if it is your first trip up.
Haha. That's pretty cool. And I like the name, QUID.
it does have pretty colors...
Will be great to get a pint of lager for less than a QUID again at least.
This is an idiotic idea. The exchange rate is not 6.25 GBP to 1 Quid because Quid is not a real currency, that's just the cost for this plastic piece of $hit. If you think this is a fun idea you're a moron.
Jesus... way to spoil a morning with vehement hate and unbridled, unrequited rage.
That said, I think this definitely sounds more like a joke than a serious research project... I mean, come on, will space money REALLY have a tiny solar system printed on it? At least it's funny.
Leave it to the Brits to come up with something useless.
@TJ
Like America?
Yeah, and what about that stupid Internet, and now the Semantic Web, and who knows what else? Oh wait...
Actually, should have said "that silly Web", not Internet (
I'd just use paper money.
Here Jeff, lend us a couple of hundred quid, I need to fill up the rocket so I can visit the inlaws on Mars.
Its funny how anyone outside the UK thinks its stupid, the world hates the UK...
Well we invented the TV, Telephone, Radio etc. and we make better music than the US,
Brits ftw
Yes, but how does your music become famous? America
Where do the majority of real motion pictures come from? America
Music is famous here in the UK, but because the US is so freakin' huge bands get real big when they make it in America
America may make alot of the films but the only ones i ever see in the charts are the cheesy comedies, or naff action films - mind you saying that i think we do the same.
Still UK ftw
I'm sure there are people in the UK that think it's stupid too.
You should check your facts before you make comments like that or you look like an idiot.
1 - Invention of television creditted to many individuals, most of which were NOT British
2 - Radio (See number 1)
3 - Telephone inventor was Scottish
Scotland is part of the UK
Here are the actual inventers:
TV: Georges Rignoux and A. Fournier (France)
Telephone: debated. Contenders: Antonio Meucci (Italy), Johann Philipp Reis (Germany), Alexander Graham Bell (USA), and Elisha Gray (USA)
Invetion of Radio: Guglielmo Marconi (Italy)
Ignorance, prejudice and megalomania: UK
I live in the UK and I don't care what u say about it, or for that matter anything.
Anyway, I like the pretty colours on the new money
Actually, all Rignoux and Fournier managed was the transmission of still duotone images, not true television. Credit for that goes to John Logie Baird, a Scot and, thus, a UK citizen.
Anyway, I think George Bernard Shaw summed up the basis of all the arguments here:
"Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it…"
Here's the full wikipedia article: Plenty of nationalities to choose from.
The origins of what would become today's television system can be traced back to the discovery of the photoconductivity of the element selenium by Willoughby Smith in 1873, and the invention of a scanning disk by Paul Gottlieb Nipkow in 1884.
German student Nipkow proposed and patented the first electromechanical television system in 1884. Nipkow's spinning disk design is credited with being the first television image rasterizer. Constantin Perskyi had coined the word television in a paper read to the International Electricity Congress at the International World Fair in Paris on August 25, 1900. Perskyi's paper reviewed the existing electromechanical technologies, mentioning the work of Nipkow and others. The photoconductivity of selenium and Nipkow's scanning disk were first joined for practical use in the electronic transmission of still pictures and photographs, and by the first decade of the 20th century halftone photographs were being transmitted by facsimile over telegraph and telephone lines as a newspaper service.
However, it wasn't until 1907 that developments in amplification tube technology made the design practical.[1] The first demonstration of the instantaneous transmission of still duotone images was by Georges Rignoux and A. Fournier in Paris in 1909, using a rotating mirror-drum as the scanner, and a matrix of 64 selenium cells as the receiver.[2]
In 1911, Boris Rosing and his student Vladimir Kosma Zworykin created a television system that used a mechanical mirror-drum scanner to transmit, in Zworykin's words, "very crude images" over wires to the electronic Braun tube (cathode ray tube) in the receiver. Moving images were not possible because, in the scanner, "the sensitivity was not enough and the selenium cell was very laggy".
On March 25, 1925, Scottish inventor John Logie Baird gave a demonstration of televised silhouette images in motion at Selfridge's Department Store in London. But if television is defined as the transmission of live, moving, half-tone (grayscale) images, and not silhouette, duotone, or still images, Baird first achieved this privately on October 2, 1925.[3] Then he gave the world's first public demonstration of a working television system to members of the Royal Institution and a newspaper reporter on January 26, 1926 at his laboratory in London. Unlike later electronic systems with several hundred lines of resolution, Baird's vertically scanned image, using a scanning disk embedded with a double spiral of lenses, had only 30 lines, just enough to reproduce a recognizable human face.
In 1927 Baird transmitted a signal over 438 miles of telephone line between London and Glasgow. In 1928 Baird's company (Baird Television Development Company / Cinema Television) broadcast the first transatlantic television signal, between London and New York, and the first shore-to-ship transmission. He also demonstrated an electromechanical color, infrared (dubbed "Noctovision"), and stereoscopic television, using additional lenses, disks and filters. In parallel he developed a video disk recording system dubbed "Phonovision"; a number of the Phonovision [1] recordings, dating back to 1927, still exist. In 1929 he became involved in the first experimental electromechanical television service in Germany. In 1931 he made the first live transmission, of the Epsom Derby. In 1932 he demonstrated ultra-short wave television. Baird's electromechanical system reached a peak of 240 lines of resolution on BBC television broadcasts in 1936, before being discontinued in favor of a 405-line all-electronic system developed by Marconi-EMI.
In the U.S., Charles Francis Jenkins was able to demonstrate on June 13, 1925, the transmission of the silhouette image of a toy windmill in motion from a naval radio station to his laboratory in Washington, using a lensed disk scanner with 48 lines per picture, 16 pictures per second. AT&T's Bell Telephone Laboratories transmitted half-tone images of transparencies in May 1925.
However, Herbert E. Ives of Bell Labs gave the most dramatic demonstration of television yet on April 7, 1927, when he field tested reflected-light television systems using small-scale (2 by 2.5 inches) and large-scale (24 by 30 inches) viewing screens over a wire link from Washington to New York City, and over-the-air broadcast from Whippany, New Jersey. The subjects, who included Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover, were illuminated by a flying-spot scanner beam that was scanned by a 50-aperture disk at 16 pictures per second.
[edit] Electronic television
In 1911, engineer Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton gave a speech in London, reported in The Times, describing in great detail how distant electric vision could be achieved by using cathode ray tubes at both the transmitting and receiving ends. The speech, which expanded on a letter he wrote to the journal Nature in 1908, was the first iteration of the electronic television method that is still used today. Others had already experimented with using a cathode ray tube as a receiver, but the concept of using one as a transmitter was novel.[4] By the late 1920s, when electromechanical television was still being introduced, inventors Philo Farnsworth and Vladimir Zworykin were already working separately on versions of all-electronic transmitting tubes.
The decisive solution — television operating on the basis of continuous electron emission with accumulation and storage of released secondary electrons during the entire scansion cycle — was first described by the Hungarian inventor Kálmán Tihanyi in 1926, with further refined versions in 1928.
On September 7, 1927, Philo Farnsworth's Image Dissector camera tube transmitted its first image, a simple straight line, at his laboratory at 202 Green Street in San Francisco. [2] By 1928, Farnsworth had developed the system sufficiently to hold a demonstration for the press, televising a motion picture film. In 1929, the system was further improved by elimination of a motor generator, so that his television system now had no mechanical moving parts. That year, Farnsworth transmitted the first live human images by his television system, including a three and a half-inch image of his wife Pem with her eyes closed (possibly due to the bright lighting required).
Farnsworth gave the world's first public demonstration of a complete all-electronic television system on 25 August 1934 at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. Other inventors had previously demonstrated components of such a system, or had shown an electronic system using still images or motion picture film. But Farnsworth was the first to coordinate both electronically scanned television cameras and electronically scanned television receivers, and present live, moving, half-tone (grayscale) images with them. Unfortunately, his cameras needed too much light, so his work came to a stop.
Vladimir Zworykin was also experimenting with the cathode ray tube to create and show images. In 1931 he and his team at RCA created their first successful electronic camera tube, dubbed the Iconoscope. Farnsworth believed it to interfere with the 1927 patent for his image dissector, and in a 1935 decision the U.S. Patent Office examiner agreed, finding prior art for Farnsworth against Zworykin. In November 1939, after losing in the courts, RCA gave Farnsworth a check for $1 million (USD) (the equivalent of $13.8 million (USD) in 2006) in order to license Farnsworth's patents.
In Britain Isaac Shoenburg used Zworykin's idea to develop Marconi-EMI's own Emitron tube, which formed the heart of the cameras they designed for the BBC. Using this, on November 2, 1936 a 405 line service was started from studios at Alexandra Palace, and transmitted from a specially-built mast atop one of the Victorian building's towers; it alternated for a short time with Baird's mechanical system in adjoining studios, but was more reliable and visibly superior. So began the world's first high-definition regular service. The mast is still in use today.
Wow, i wasn't expecting that response lol
Anyway, i DO think the money is stupid.
@Alexis - Why say "Ignorance, prejudice and megalomania: britain" You had to make an attack at the country, you think britain is prejudice? We have tons of people from all over the world living in britain, we get along fine with them! And megalomania - where are you from?
As for the invetions thing, it seems everyone has there own thoughts on it, apologies if i got it wrong...
Al @ Oct 8th 2007 12:46PM
Such a long post and a total wast of real estate.
Next time post your comment and then post the link/reference to your comment underneath it or your post will be removed!
@aaronbareford : Yes, my post is just a stupid insult. I spend too much time on the internet.
One caveat though: there is surprisingly little information about other countries available in England (I am discounting the constant bombardment of US=stupid/Germany=Nazis/France=lazy epicurians), and this leads to negative side effects.
@Al
Britains past is horrible really, it givees us bad rep now. Our history lessons are full of how bad we have been with slave trade, and wars etc. The world wars are covered very biased though.
Media in the UK does take the piss out of france alot :) Id say britains view of america is more that they are a bit "we are the only country that matters" or "we are the world, what europe? Is it a city or type of food?"
I'm not exactly sure who invented what and where, but I'm pretty sure they were all human.
What are you going to buy in space? An "I went to space and all I got was this stupid t-shirt."
Considering that there are already places showing up where you can just swipe your credit card and go, and in some places like Japan it's already the common way to pay, why would we want to go back to coins??
RTFA
It talks about possible radiation from magnetic strips, thus making a credit card useless.
Not only is this currency worthless at present, but methinks the Brits are getting a little ahead of themselves. Last I heard, we still need to achieve viable intra-system travel from the Earth to orbit, as well as interplanetary travel within our solar system and interstellar travel long before we entertain notions of going intergalactic. Would someone please inform these gents that "inter" means "between," as in "between galaxies?"
@ Andir
Long live physical currency. The second we go to an all-digital economic model is the second my financial security becomes a question of the best hacker's present need for money. I use a bank, sure, but the only way I'm having $100 in cash stolen from me is by a person no farther than three feet away.
You don't have/use a credit card? If you do, you can have $100 stolen by someone over 1000 miles away and not know it for days. Even then, you usually get your money back and the bank tried to go after the thief. The same would occur in a digital money society. They'd be better off spending the research money creating holographic "IDs" that replace the magnetic strips used today. Instead of carrying around large oval paperweights, you'd have a small key fob that you hold up to a holographic reader or something of the like.
Damn! Here I was believing all currency should be digital in the future. How much cash can I possibly be carrying to get a space pocket full of these?
I guess time is circular. Once coins shrunk down, the sizes are increasing again.
or you could just use electronic currency?
Why is current currency tech going towards cloud money (credit cards, RFID, etc) and yet future currency tech is going back to coin bags and such?
I think it's space-retro cool. :)
like mathmos lava lamps!
The concept is cool, but both size and security of this 'currency' seems to be problematic. The nice thing about coins (especially British) is that you can carry quite a bit of money in your pocket. I'd bet you'd be hard pressed to fit even two of the larger QUID in your pocket.
Secondly, if they're made of plastic, what is keeping people from making a couple hundred of these out of old non-stick pans.
Lopsided marbles to replace paper and plastic? No thanks.
However, if this does come to pass people who have stock in the fanny pack companies are going to make a killing. Of course they'll no longer be called "fanny pack," instead "intergalactic wallet." But a fanny pack by any other name still makes you look like a dork.
OH I KNOW - why not copy that US money - those green bills.. aren't they all the same coloUr and size? Now THAT is a really clever idea....... (Borat-type pause) Not.
:)
mebbe i'll go bet on quidditch (sp?) with my quid :P
They are worried about the radiation-prone magnetic strips on bank and credit cards?? I think by the time we manage to have space travel, Visa and MasterCard would have already created credit cards that have smart cards, and have radios embeded into them...oh wait, they already have?
I was at oshkosh when Sir Richard announced his partnership with Burt Rutan to build the space craft. Yes, tickets are only going to be for the rich, but it will come down, just the same as flying on an aircraft. It started out expensive, but now almost everyone can afford it. This is something that needs looked into, because by (in my opinion) 2020 space flights will be regular.
O the credulity. O the asininity.
Please note the following "scientific" equation: press release + cutting a check = press release that starts "Scientists have..."
At least Engadget, unlike the BBC, didn't name the corporation.
You say it's all in good fun, I say it contributes to the the public's misunderstanding and mistrust of what scientists do.
why does it matter if it's stackable in zero-gravity...
Oh, because we will have artificial gravity by that point!
which render the whole idea pointless..
so why not just use credit card again?
This is just a way to get free PR with a press release that might get piicked up as news. I think its a cool design but should be thinner. Id like to buy some just for fun. And get them pefor the USD loses even more value.I checked out their website and they have nothing about this listed. Maybe ill just switch my paypal account to Euros.
Why not jsut use marbles? I mean they'll take up less space then these tree bark plastic coins. I'll keep my flat debit card the next time I travel to Mars.
Hell Yeah! Space Pogs! Awesome
But will these work in Doom arcade machines?
its a shame its not a "Ningey" or a "Pue" ;)
( HHGTTG space currency )
why cant we just use our finger prints??
Yes, but can they be exchanged with the Triganic Pu, and at what rate?
Not a far cry from the Drogna - the currency used in the cult 80's TV series, The Adventure Game.
Drogna The currency used on Arg was the Drogna, coloured pieces of plastic with seemingly random values. There was however some logic to the currency. The value of a piece was calculated by multiplying the number sides by the piece's colour in the rainbow (Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet). So a blue pentagon was worth 25 points (5 time 5) and a red circle was worth 1 point (one side and the first colour in the rainbow).
What next, talking Aspidistras
Frankly, if we're changing coinage systems, I'd rather move to sweet sweet gemstones, carried about in a small drawstring bag.
This is the dumbest thing I've ever seen. Intergalactic money? WTF. There is no use now nor will there be in the next hundred years. We haven't even found life, no less malls on other planets.
Although it does look like it would be cool for intergalactic gambling, those really don't seem very easy to carry around. I guess it would be like the old days where we'd all carry around bags of gold or corn or marbles.
I'm sure if it were just a normal space vacation, it could work like a cruise ship where you just sign for everything and get a huge bill at the end. I still don't think we'll be using actual currency in the long run.
And yes, QUID is not a very universal name. Let's just call them "Credits" like they do in most movies based on the future and get on with our lives. I'm sure either that ... or Starbucks.
"In the fullness of time we will have to adopt a universal currency if we are going to carry out serious commerce in space. It's an interesting initiative."
Pardon me Sir... We already have a "universal currency" here on earth. It's called gold and silver! Except our current leaders took that away from us and gave us some worthless paper sh*t.
Simply give Americans back *THEIR GOLD & Silver* from which President Roosevelt (and the banking elite industry) executed Executive Order 6102 to confiscating all gold and silver from American citizens. President Richard Nixon (and others) removing the U.S. from Bretton Woods agreement, the gold exchange standard, on August 15, 1971. Shape the currnecy in the from or some roundish *QUID* of some sort so it wont have any sharp edges to hurt us people in space, and once again you will have a currency which people will want! Non of this transparent roundish plastic crap which is missing a string attach to the center of if so we can really have something to play with! Hum... I wonder if it will light up if you move it around at high speeds...
It looks like it would. Only then we would have a currency that everybody would agree too... except the rich!
Bretton Woods system
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system
Franklin D Roosevelt: Executive order 6102, Requiring Gold Coin, Gold Bullion and Gold Certificates to Be Delivered to the Government.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=14611
Book: The Transfer of Wealth
http://www.amazon.com/Transfer-Wealth-Nationwide-Concealed-Handguns/dp/1420896210
Great, I can already see the 419 Spam emails now:
GREETINGS DEAR SIR HUMAN,
What happen? My designation is Xorklar of Altair VI, third proto-son of Marklar "THE GREAT AND TERRIBLE", the late- and exiled ruler of Tanagra VII. Mr. Human, I am needed your helping to correct great injustice to me and my 27 broodmates.
Briefly before my broodfather was exiled to the barrened wastelands of Tau Alpha Ceti VI, for riding the great moon worm, he hiddened a great fortune of more than 20 Xorn (31,415,926,535 QUID) in the intergalactic bank of the Argolis Cluster. Unfortunate TURM-OIL has effected mine homeworld and to much saddness, my ears have learned that the Intergalactic Bank will never transfered the 31,415,926,535 QUID to mine broodmates' accounts.
Señor human, GREAT NEWS: the Intergalactic Bank WILL transfer the 31,415,926,535 QUID to an account on EARTHs.
Noble, delicious, honorable Monsieur Human, us, the rightful rulers of Tanagra Prime, we have sought champion from across galaxy, discovering you through your heroic exploits in "Local Man Eats 47 Hot Dogs in 20 Minutes". Kind Edible Human, would you be pleased to assist I by allowing me to transfer 31,415,926,535 QUID to your EARTH account of your EARTH bank? Then you might be able to send we the 31,415,926,535 QUID to us's account on Altair Banking and Loan. If so doing, we is pleasured to provide you, as token of thanks, 20 per-cent of QUIDs, plus 5% of any our future conquest -- PRAISED BE TO XENU -- should HE smile up on us with fortunes and buffets.
Man-y thanks to you for the helping, Herr Human, for great justice.
WITH GREAT RESPECT,
Proto-Son Xorklar of Altair VI
Second Zarniwoop of the Versenwald Clan, Holder of the Sacred Chalice of Garkbit, Heir to the Wisdom of Grunthos
what the ... why don't just use glass marbles instead!! they have more colours and look prettier you know .. /sarcasm
this currency will be issued against what? do we have an inter galactic gold standard?
For us Americans that read this site, 1 QUID = $12.72
Let's move to gold-pressed latinum!
You're QUIDing me! When I was in elementary school we had cardboard round credits and the kids beat each other up to get them. Just like real money!
So if you carry these around your neck like jewelry, you'll light up like an Atlantic City casino payout. Better check if Mr. T's Pity School of Defense is up and running for training your Sparkle Money Boy! OR: Hey Universal military Overlords: Earth is rich, just see our colors and thank you for robbing us!
Mike
mdcnet1@gmail.com
First I think we need to have a global currency. If we could somehow do that, I think the world would be a step closer to being better.
a: How are you supposed to get them out of your pocket with those big bulky gloves?
b: If they create a biodome type of habitat with artificial gravity and airlocks and stuff why wouldn't the normal form of currency work with the exchange rates the same as the do now?
c: If it was truly and intergalatic money whos going to determine the exchange rate to alien money?
You got to be quidding. ;D
You are all losers, arguing over money that nobody has even heard about. Come on. Why on Earth are you pretty much insulting all of Britain just because someone has a cool "outside of the box" idea. I think you are all just jealous that you didn't come up with it. By the way... this came from a 13 year old.
I'm not exactly sure how these are supposed to be used to I have 2 questions.
1) If it is just supposed to be universal on Earth then what was wrong with paper/metal/plastic?
2) If it is supposed to be used intergalactically when why are we assuming that other planets or whatever would accept our stackable money?
so when you go to "exchange" for this money, youre pretty much buying a stupid piece of plastic (albeit cool looking) that won't be able to be spent (who the hell would accept this as payment?)
they are not quis, they are DROGNA
Richard of York gave battle in vain....
BTW, these look an awful lot like the "free pint" tokens (with 2-3 ounces of Guinness in the center) that you get at the Guinness Museum in Dublin.
One thing that i've learned from the movies and videogames is that in the space you don't really need money but bullets (a lot)
Meh, I'll stick to my gold-pressed latinum.
/rubs lobes
"Due to sharp edges or radiation-prone magnetic strips."
Huh? Sharp edges? Yah because I've nearly slashed my wrist with my credit card. And god knows that if a credit card gets loose on a space station it could poke out someone's eye. Oh no! They are ruffled! And what the hell is up with radiation-prone magnetic strips?
I call bullshit marketing on this.
It amazes me how something as infinitely enthralling as space can be reduced to a vacation destination and exploited in the name of capitalism.
I am not sure why, however, as we continue to pillage our Earth and deplete its natural resources in order to drive around tanks and print mobile phone bills.
wow, this gonna be the a big hit ~
for fairparks~
When someone makes Warp Drive a reality, then come talk to me.
*imitates Patrick Stewart* ENGAGE!
Well, they look quite trippy, I suppose. "Trippy Space Coins".