A new currency has been unveiled for use in space – the Quasi Universal Intergalactic Denomination (QUID). The QUID will be ready for use for the start of Virgin’s tourist space flights. It has been specially designed for duration in space, and to overcome obstacles that chip and pin, magnetic strips and other means of payment would encounter in space.
One QUID will be worth about £6.25, which is perhaps an indication of what we can expect to pay for things up there…Still. Maybe I’ll buy a couple for the future grandchildren.
this is interesting..Why take money into space??
That’s a good question.
Some possible answers.
The idealist: So we can trade with the aliens and we’ll all become better off through the free market.
The cynic: So they can get an exchange rate racket going (like the one we have on earth) in space in time for the first space tourists in 2009.
The realist: So they can sell them to Sci-Fi fans who think they are pretty cool and don’t care all that much whether they get into space or not!
of course its not for aliens and all that
space tourism is coming increasingly available
and soon enough we will all be on holiday in space and you have to pay for things in space hotels etc and the currency they have made is going to be used for that
its not an insane thing i just said its true im not a weirdo