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(BBC)   Scientists, with obviously nothing better to do, have come up with a new currency designed to be used by inter-planetary travellers   (news.bbc.co.uk) divider line 124
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2007-10-06 12:35:18 PM
Interesting idea, but I don't really think it's going to be an issue any time soon.
 
2007-10-06 01:10:26 PM
I tried to buy a cheeseburger once with a hunk of plastic. "Why don't you go look in the dumpster?", she said. "So where do you suppose I found this?", I replied. She said, "Security! Over here!".
 
2007-10-06 01:27:17 PM
What's the exchange rate for the Quasi Universal Intergalactic Denomination to the quatloo?
 
2007-10-06 01:37:35 PM
it took 'scientists' to come up with this.

/and by 'scientists', I mean some douchebag and his lawyer
 
2007-10-06 02:09:17 PM
It's not news, it's... a repackaged press release.
 
2007-10-06 02:09:49 PM
I wager 40 quatloos that this will not catch on...
 
2007-10-06 02:17:47 PM
I thought Love was the currency of the universe?
 
2007-10-06 02:38:54 PM
...and he still won't accept them. Dick.

www.starwars.jp
 
2007-10-06 02:55:10 PM
www.startreksite.com

Take your pog the next generation someplace else. Gold pressed latinum or no service.
 
2007-10-06 03:47:20 PM
Still no cure for cancer.
 
2007-10-06 03:51:07 PM
Is it the Euro?

/drtfa
 
2007-10-06 03:51:36 PM
Quid? Quatloos are where it's at.
 
2007-10-06 03:52:18 PM
what's the exchange rate with Altarian dollars?
 
2007-10-06 03:52:31 PM
Better pic:

img218.imageshack.us
 
2007-10-06 03:53:36 PM
I could be mistaken, but havn't poker chips been around for a reeeeally long time?
 
2007-10-06 03:53:42 PM
Surely NOW we can bomb England?
 
2007-10-06 03:55:26 PM
This could go over huge if ethanol based.
 
2007-10-06 03:55:34 PM
So, I take it VISA's "It's everywhere you want to be" slogan is now useless?
 
2007-10-06 03:56:17 PM
Waste of time. How about a really good towel?
 
2007-10-06 03:57:18 PM
... What was SO wrong with Federons? Huh?

content.answers.com
 
2007-10-06 03:57:34 PM
Money made of Teflon®. How appropriate.
 
2007-10-06 03:58:11 PM
Credits?
 
2007-10-06 03:59:10 PM
Well, this way members of the Intergalactic Confederacy can keep their exchange in...
 
2007-10-06 04:00:52 PM
The exchange rate of eight Ningis to one Triganic Pu is simple enough. However, the Ningi is a triangular rubber coin six thousand eight hundred miles a side and hence nobody has ever owned enough Ningis to own one Pu. Of course, Galactibanks refuse to deal in such piddling small change.
 
2007-10-06 04:01:03 PM
Cock or walk; meatbag!
images.wikia.com
 
2007-10-06 04:02:07 PM
They'll still accept Flooz and Beenz, right?
 
2007-10-06 04:03:40 PM
They still need one for cats and dogs.
 
2007-10-06 04:04:45 PM
interpanetary currency is called Star Bucks.


/eh oh el.
 
2007-10-06 04:04:58 PM
Woolongs?
 
2007-10-06 04:06:07 PM
edoctober65: What's the exchange rate for the Quasi Universal Intergalactic Denomination to the quatloo?

The real question is what's the exchange rate for the Quasi Universal Intergalactic Denomination to the Shrewt Buck.
 
2007-10-06 04:07:05 PM
UberDave: I wager 40 quatloos that this will not catch on...

Well, the Galacto was supposed to be our unversal space currency to trade with aliens, but it sure didn't catch on. Anybody even remember these things from 2004?

www.tuonda.cl
 
2007-10-06 04:11:49 PM
pussy will be the new currency of the universe. those who hvae it, don't need it, but will always try to get more.
 
2007-10-06 04:13:28 PM
So are galakmids not good enough?
 
2007-10-06 04:14:08 PM
So does this mean there's a cure for cancer?
 
2007-10-06 04:14:39 PM
www.bbc.co.uk
 
2007-10-06 04:15:47 PM
Hopefully, you can still buy freedom for 35,000 Zuleks.
 
2007-10-06 04:16:05 PM
I'll stick with Space Bucks for my intergalactic transactions thank you very much.
 
2007-10-06 04:17:35 PM
Wtf is the point!? Unless they're preparing us for something!
 
2007-10-06 04:18:40 PM
Scientist is a nice way of saying crazy people in this case. It's a case of Zoidberg Syndrome ("Saying I'm a doctor doesn't make me a doctor, these fancy clothes do!").
 
2007-10-06 04:21:32 PM
3825968
The exchange rate of eight Ningis to one Triganic Pu is simple enough. However, the Ningi is a triangular rubber coin six thousand

Douglas Adams FTW
 
2007-10-06 04:23:13 PM
GilRuiz1
Well, the Galacto was supposed to be our unversal space currency to trade with aliens, but it sure didn't catch on. Anybody even remember these things from 2004?

What the fark!?

Are they trying to get someone killed!?

Just look at all those "sharp" edges!!
 
2007-10-06 04:26:26 PM
partytimeweekend.com
 
2007-10-06 04:26:38 PM
I thought cubits were already universal currency.

/you know, from the good Battlestar Galactica
//not the crappy new one
 
2007-10-06 04:31:02 PM
What about Solari, Hytes, Cubits and Grozits? The Altairian dollar has never been the same since the market crash, but hey, doesn it count too?

Geez, these people haven't done their research.


I say we call them Flanian Pobble Beads. Remember those from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? Nearly totally useless, but you can exchange them to get more Pobble Beads.
 
2007-10-06 04:32:33 PM
I only trade in Pleasure Borgs.
 
2007-10-06 04:37:00 PM
cerberus9: /you know, from the good Battlestar Galactica
//not the crappy new one


It's good to know that I'm not the only one not impressed with the new series.

Except Grace Park. She can enslave me to the Cylons any day.
 
2007-10-06 04:41:17 PM
I figured I'd be the only huge nerd to make a Cowboy Bebop reference, but it looks like Underwater Bystander beat me to it.
 
2007-10-06 04:43:03 PM
We're sailors on the moon
we carry a harpoon (and Quids)
but there ain't no whales so we tell this tale
and sing our whaling tune!

tvmedia.ign.com
 
2007-10-06 04:43:12 PM
When is the interplanetary version of www.wheresgeorge.com coming?
 
2007-10-06 04:43:25 PM
Why, again, won't our "paper" bills travel?
 
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