03-30-2016, 10:24 PM | #191 | |
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Although you could hide it by doing cross-time arbitrage between two worlds with complimentary economic crisises. |
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03-31-2016, 03:16 PM | #192 |
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Oh hey- thought of an easy one:
Storage-1 This world has a local plank time 1000x slower than homeline (which is to say that 1 second on this world is ~17 minutes of time passed in homeline). This makes it an ideal world for storing things like medical radioactive isotopes, sick people waiting for regenerative medicine to finish cloning their replacement parts, and other things that you want to preserve. It's also a popular 'tourist' spot for futurists who want to 'fast forward' Stored items don't even require attendance, just put the conveyor on proper return time (often mere minutes) and let it run its course. The world is otherwise unremarkable, coming out of its first ice age, there is breathable atmosphere, but virtually no surface life. |
03-31-2016, 09:34 PM | #193 | |
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I suppose there are still places that might accept deposit of a briefcase full of cash, but that's only a few million dollars (they have to be the same denominations that exist on your destination line, you can't deposit a case full of million dollar bills) and is likely to attract enough law enforcement attention that somebody will notice something wrong.
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03-31-2016, 09:59 PM | #195 | |
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It was more of a small scale concept, agent illegally uses billions of dollars worth of equipment to jump to a world to make $100,000 that he uses to pay for groceries etc. The basic idea would work in reverse, take $10,000 out in cash and go to a parallel experiencing a depression, buy up things at cents on the dollar.
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03-31-2016, 11:29 PM | #196 | |
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Then you find an old man camping next to the great lakes, and it looks like he's been living there for six months... Last edited by PTTG; 04-02-2016 at 08:44 PM. |
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04-01-2016, 08:41 AM | #197 |
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I didn't know that the people of the Turks and Caicos actually wanted to be a Canadian Province, I thought they were content with the limited oversight of a British appointed government that tries not to offend them. I was simply playing around with your words and ideas.
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04-01-2016, 08:47 AM | #198 |
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Try this simple idea. A world were spending on the Arts is noncontroversial in the USA from the 1910's on. Because of investment in Arts education and public sponsored art displays and performances the USA has a great deal more art and because of the vitality of twentieth century US life the art is lively, exciting, and very good. Even better for Homeline, artistic production is plentiful. Genuinely fine paintings and other art objects are available cheap. There is a lively trade in fine art from this world.
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04-02-2016, 10:08 AM | #199 | |
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Edit: Actually I think you might get the best return from funding art appreciation classes in schools - creating a larger private demand.
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