Moon Money
January 21st, 2009 | researchmaterial
A wonderful bit of Design Fiction on English Russia: a collection of Lunaro notes, from the althistory where Russia colonised the moon:

January 21st, 2009 | researchmaterial
A wonderful bit of Design Fiction on English Russia: a collection of Lunaro notes, from the althistory where Russia colonised the moon:

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Turns out, TANSTAAFL after all.
[...] Já cogitou essa hipótese? Sem problemas de câmbio, sem notas de diferentes cores, valores e formatos, todo mundo falando uma mesma moeda – com um Casa da Moeda na Lua, para não ter problema de localização. Que tal? E, por ser na Lua, os homenageados seriam grandes visionários de todo o planeta que enxergaram em nosso satélite o primeiro ponto de partida para irmos além (Gagarin, Ptolomeu, Kepler, Beethoven, Copérnico, Verne e Neil Armstrong). Uma invenção do English Russia, pescada via Warren Ellis. [...]