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#1 Hostile

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Posted 24 January 2008 - 01:29 AM

http://news.bbc.co.u...ess/7029564.stm

So the Quid seems to be the official space currency. Designed from space age materials and ready to survive the rigors of space.

Are we perhaps getting alittle ahead of ourselves here? Do we need intergalactic currency standards when we can barely leave the orbit of the earth? When scientists and bankers shake hands than buyer beware. Will the currency have an REAL value on earth? It's supposed to be worth 6.25 UK pounds per Quid.

Maybe it costs that much to make a Quid, than maybe I'd see the value. It is called the Quasi Universal Intergalactic Denomination, or Quid.

Quid does sorta have a cool sound to it. Like something you might pick out of your ear and look at. Or something I might find under a rock in the shallows of a pond. And well it already is slang for currency anyway.

Than again "two bits" used to be slang in the US for a .25 cent piece. And now we all know it means two bits of information in computer jargon.

Maybe someday I'll create a new snack and call it Tits, Tantilizing Ingestible Treat. Than I can create: cheese Tits, bacon Tits, sour cream and chives Tits and so on... You never know where it could go.

Maybe someday you'll see a commercial of a famous person holding up a box and saying:

"Try new Tits, I love Tits and I know you'll love Tit's as well. Low in fat and sodium and leading experts have shown that Tits even increases mens virility."

Has anyone noticed that many things are named as acronyms now? I think I'll stop there... :thumbsupsmiley:

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Posted 24 January 2008 - 02:21 AM

Oh good, now as soon as we colonize a planet we can bring the deeply flawed monetary - based system with it. That's done it, I hope we don't get to Mars anytime soon.
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Posted 24 January 2008 - 03:22 AM

I agree, there getting way to ahead of themselfs.
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Posted 24 January 2008 - 10:34 AM

I never thought I'd see the day when humanity created something more pointless than the Millennium Dome, but here it is. :thumbsupsmiley:

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Posted 24 January 2008 - 04:46 PM

Just shows that some people have waaaay too much time at hand.

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Posted 24 January 2008 - 09:10 PM

I too think it's a bit silly, but not completely. Who of you has read the article? :rolleyes:
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Posted 24 January 2008 - 11:23 PM

Ooooh, me! Me!

I think it's kinda sickening that we're ALREADY commercializing space like this. Fuck it, we're barely getting to the moon right now! And we're already ruining space!
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Posted 25 January 2008 - 01:38 AM

TBH colonising space out of political interests had a sort of cool ring to it. But now the only advances in spatial travel are being done by companies who want to specialise in space-tourism! I think we are reaching new levels of absurdity here, especially with what other things were mentioned in the article like the "inflatable space hotel" :rolleyes:

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Posted 02 February 2008 - 09:53 AM

Who of you has read the article? :wink_new:


I did. It doesn't change the fact that it's completely moronic, nonsensical and pointless.




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