No thoughts, then, on what might happen when we have three colonies on Mars, spaced just far enough apart that their respective members aren't constantly getting in each other's way but close enough that regular travel via blimp wouldn't be unfeasible? (Yes, it's possible to have an aircraft on Mars. No, it probably won't look like a Boeing 747.) What if Colony A decides that they want to trade some of its strawberry flavored protein bars for some of Colony B's blueberry flavored protein bars, but Colony B decides they don't like strawberry flavored protein bars and they want some of Colony C's banana flavored bars instead?
I do have an outline for my presentation. I just wanted to get your thoughts on the matter while I filled in the details.
well thats why i said.. if they all had bland, vanilla flavoured protein bars. and they all ha enough reserves to be rationed out fairly.. then no need for currency..
but say one colony hub was growing strawberries, another colony was growing oranges and the third was growing tomato's.. then trade between then would happen.
but if all colonies were just growing. potatos.. then no trade or currency would be needed.
like i said you cant just throw a currency into a project, it needs to solve a purpose. so if your going to present a currency, then show off its real benefits. like find out exactly what the plans for mars are.. find out wht type of rations american space agency stock up on/grow, then look at the russian space agency and chinese.. (the main groups hoping to get too mars) and show some REAL demo of swaps.. rather than making up uses that you have no clue of
Well, sure...It wouldn't take much imagine to see how these three space agencies' efforts could evolve into space colonies that are developed enough to start specializing and trading. That's assuming all three agencies actually succeed in establishing bases on Mars, though it need not necessarily be through a government space agency considering that some private citizens have expressed interest in settling Mars. (A discussion for another day -- complicated topic.) The important thing to me here is that 1) Trade between colonies will happen and 2) The colonies involved will want some sort of medium of exchange they can use to do business with their neighbors if they don't want to be left behind economically.
I might make mention of smart contracts and other possible Blockchain apps that can be used to keep colonists honest in the new frontier, though. What do you guys think?
Well I don't even think that it HAS to do with trading goods on Mars alone... As you said, it would be "good for an interplanetary currency", in that it would be useful maybe to act as a currency that can be traded with people on mars, earth, etc.
Just thinking about it makes it sound super Sci-fi, but the thing is, is that this could theoretically work I think. So, it doesn't really have to be "vanilla protein bars vs. strawberry protein bars" on planet mars...
Let's just say, for some odd reason, there are fantastic resources on Mars to grow the biggest, most plump pumpkins than you could on earth... or maybe there is some unknown gold/oil reserve in the planet of Mars. So people who go there could trade with people on Mars as well as Earth, Earth's moon, the ISS, etc. You never know... there could be "job" openings due to colonizing Mars, rather than going there just to see if you can survive with a group of 20 people or so.
