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Graphimancer
Skilled Investigator
art. That includes entertainers, music, intellectual properties.
Koji K.
Skilled Investigator
I fear the temptation for humor will be too much to resist here...
So I give in.
Cattle?
Seriously, who knows what we can offer a galactic economy. I remember some old sci fi book I read, I forget the title, author, and most of the plot, but it was based around the idea that one day a simple farmer meets some aliens in a field and decides to give them what he has on him as gifts, which include a sandwich and half a pack of cigarettes. Turns out the aliens get addicted to the cigarettes and he becomes the focal point of an intergalactic drugs trade.
Will they give us piles of guns for our diamonds? Military aid for our poppies? Beads for New York?
It has been said that the "little people" of yore, and in some modern UFO case reports, that aliens exchange wafers or pancake-like foodstuff for water.
So I give in.
Cattle?
Seriously, who knows what we can offer a galactic economy. I remember some old sci fi book I read, I forget the title, author, and most of the plot, but it was based around the idea that one day a simple farmer meets some aliens in a field and decides to give them what he has on him as gifts, which include a sandwich and half a pack of cigarettes. Turns out the aliens get addicted to the cigarettes and he becomes the focal point of an intergalactic drugs trade.
Will they give us piles of guns for our diamonds? Military aid for our poppies? Beads for New York?
It has been said that the "little people" of yore, and in some modern UFO case reports, that aliens exchange wafers or pancake-like foodstuff for water.