Aren't space vehicles designed to be small and light? Who has room for that crap?

Space money will obviously be in the form of credit. NERDS.

Actually I have a revolutionary idea if you can't use coins or credit cards. What about... wait for it... paper money! We could print these pieces of paper that we could use as currency. I know, I'm brilliant, no one else could have thought of such a cunning plan. Although, they do say there's nothing worse than a paper cut...

Seems to me like carrying a pocketful of these things would be problematic at best.

I figured we'd just use cattle, like the Masai.

Won't we all be tattooed with the Mark of the Beast by then?

Those people who always say "I submitted this with a better headline" used to irritate me. Now I am one of them.

Ikahoshi
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.

Yeah, it's crap.

Gold Pressed Latinum FTW.

tribute
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!

Umm, it's "whalers" on the moon, not "sailors".

Flanian pobble beads or nothing, mate!

Professor Fraser told BBC News: "With an inflatable space hotel, from Bigelow Aerospace, under development in the US, and Virgin Galactic developing SpaceShipTwo, there will be better access to space than there has been.

For some reason the idea of an inflatable space station does not fill me with confidence.

Oh, well, thank God this has been addressed. Now we can all sleep easier.

So much for using my cornhole as international currency...guess I will have to stick with using it as US currency.

This deserves the tag.

From the side-view picture they look bulky. Who wants bulky money? And furthermore the little white thing in the center may be Teflon, but the shiny clear stuff on the outside certainly is not! Acrylic or Polycarbonate, I'm guessing.

clarkcox3: tribute
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!

Umm, it's "whalers" on the moon, not "sailors".

D'oh. That's what I get for copy and pasting.

/the internets lied to me!
//unpossible

This sort of this PISSES me off. How they get paid for this is beyond belief. These and all other 'futurists' can DIAF. Wow. Didn't know I had that sort of hatred in me.

Quid is already a commonly used name for money in England. It would confuse conversation in that part of the world.

I'd say they put the cart a couple light years ahead of the horse on this one.

Why couldn't they just go with credits like in SW?

At least 10,000 of those could buy you a ship.

And people laughed when I designed a space wallet the size of a piggy bank and a space piggy bank the size of an ATM. "People will never want to haul those out of atmosphere." they said. Ha! Well the joke's on them. Now they'll have to.

FTA - "Anything with sharp edges, like coins, would be a risk to astronauts..."

For sure, like I'm always getting cuts on my fingertips from the "sharp edges" of the coins in my pocket....I guess that explains the hole in my pocket.

I'd rather pay with Buckazoids.

NeuroticRocker: interpanetary currency is called Star Bucks.


/eh oh el.

FTW this!

I think Klaatu thoughtfully brought diamonds.

Obscure?

This means "pro-science" Hillary and her cronies will be outsourcing your jobs to Uranus.

Quid is already a commonly used name for money in England. It would confuse conversation in that part of the world.

No shiat, Sherlock. Especially as the (British) article finished with quoting the currency as being valued as "£6.25 to the Quid".

It looks like Space Strippers are going to have to be up on the Wynona Rider ping-pong trick if they want to keep any money.

I'd buy THAT for a ningi!

You want obscure.. way back in the day, there was an episode of Wonder Woman that actually dealt with this pressing issue. It turned out that minds were downloaded out of unwilling sentients and used as currency.

it's called gold - and it's been accepted by ETs on most systems for millenia...

Weapons-grade naquiddah or bust, beeyotch.

RaoulDuke: it's called gold - and it's been accepted by ETs on most systems for millenia...

You're right, by golly! I remember watching that Battlefield Earth documentary about it.

WeeKeef: Is it called the £ Uranus?

i lol'd

Clonod: Obscure?

Maybe you should look about three hours up and then ask that again.

cotb

Yeah, I clearly missed that. Oops.

I miss that game, too.

Obvious choking hazard, way to go.

Economics aint rockit scines

If not credits, then Woolons FTW!

/See ya, Space Cowboy....

At least 10,000 of those could buy you a ship.

But who's going to fly it kid, you?


You bet I could! I'm not such a bad pilot myself....

Now that I think about it, anything with mass will be expensive to carry around space. The more money people lug around, the more fuel and the greater the cost, even if they're dippy little plastic chips. Wouldn't it make more sense to just do electronic debit cards or something? Although even those cards would add to the take-off weight... maybe everybody should just have a PIN code they could use anytime they buy something.

Or go with the honor system. Take anything you want, but they'll keep a running tab that you will pay when you return.

Mugato: At least 10,000 of those could buy you a ship.

But who's going to fly it kid, you?

Bwaaaah haaa! Sir, you owe me a new keyboard.

thallium thallium thallium I'd kill my mother for a bag of thallium.
/very obscure?

The only money in the verse you'll need.

I am going back to the Caturday thread where sanity prevails!!

The aliens they will only take Starbuck's Gift cards, that or human spleens.

is it a 42 dollar bill?

"What is the dollar value of a Schrute Buck?"

oroku_saki: You bet I could! I'm not such a bad pilot myself....

Don't get penisy!