The Random Crap Thread 2: It Hits the Fan.

figmentPez

figmentPez

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Yoshimickster said:
Let's say we discover an alternate reality similar to ours, but they have products we can't get in our reality and vice-versa. How hard would it be to instill trade, from an economic stand point?
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I read a SciFi short story, probably Asimov, where beings from another dimension made contact for trade, only transferring physical goods between dimensions was completely impractical, so they trafficked in ideas. The example in the story was the concept of paint, which apparently the other dimensional beings had never considered, but I still find it difficult to fathom how such a basic concept could not have been invented by multiple societies that can communicate between dimensions, but whatever. It was a good example of how much trust would have to go into such an exchange. Just explaining enough to show what you might have to offer also gives away enough value that you need to be able to trust that the other side isn't going to take that and run. Especially if they're the ones who have been doing this for a while.
 
Celt Z

Celt Z

figmentPez said:
I read a SciFi short story, probably Asimov, where beings from another dimension made contact for trade, only transferring physical goods between dimensions was completely impractical, so they trafficked in ideas. The example in the story was the concept of paint, which apparently the other dimensional beings had never considered, but I still find it difficult to fathom how such a basic concept could not have been invented by multiple societies that can communicate between dimensions, but whatever. It was a good example of how much trust would have to go into such an exchange. Just explaining enough to show what you might have to offer also gives away enough value that you need to be able to trust that the other side isn't going to take that and run. Especially if they're the ones who have been doing this for a while.
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For some reason, this reminds me of the (small) subplot in Star Trek IV when they need to get the glass for the whale tanks with no money, so Scotty trades the formula for a thinner, stronger glass for the supplies they need. It's not currency, but it brings up the thought "what is an idea worth to you?".
 
Yoshimickster

Yoshimickster

Curse you Warner Bros, you turned a tool for metal work into a tool for cartoon hilarity!

Seriously though, its such a specific heavy object. Were they hired by the anti-anvil lobby to make people take anvils less seriously?
 
Null

Null

It occurred to me earlier would be wrong, but really, really funny, if someone took the TR8R scene from The Force Awakens, and put it to the audio from the Stinkmeener fight from The Boondocks.
 
Dave

Dave

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Did a Feud event tonight at Cedar Rapids, IA. It went...okay. Not our best, not our worst.


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B

BErt

...got too busy explainin'
Now it's just rainin' pain
Pain in the form of a raindrop,
Yes a raindrop made of pain
"Tell 'em the story, raindrop"
I DONT WANT TO TELL 'EM MISTER
"Tell 'em the story, raindrop"
I DONT WANT TO TELL 'EM
Keep your voice down!
Keep your voice down!
Keep your window shakin', godforsaken voice down!
I'm sick of this beeswax
I'm sick of these second-story sleestaks breathing on my dice
Giving me backrubs
When I'm deep in concentration, you start gettin' conversatin
Sleestaks. What's a sleestak?
That's your heart-attack, towel rack, fallback
You've got no doctors - all your doctors have gone home
What's a sleestak? What's a sleestak?
You have a friend in law enforcement, don't go calling law enforcement...
 
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