Should space travelers from Xorx land at a major coin show..
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What observations would they return with?
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Xorx? Or Zork? Played Zork back in day on an Apple ][.
Xorx is correct. It lies between binary stars Ortibus and Viratoz. They are scouring the galaxies looking for physicists, neurosurgeons and graders that can split MS grades into 100ths of a point.
That little discs of various metals cause euphoria predominantly in the male species.
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did alf or mork have something to with this somewhere? just curious is all
Ray was the muse.
Now I get it.
They’ll wonder what is up with the mustard because it seems to be at all the shows. They’ll take a few bottles back for analysis... maybe that is the key to grading.
They'd say 'We don't have to go anywhere else on this Planet;
we've seen the entire spectrum of humanity over the past
8 hours, all on a hard surface, large room"
for PCGS. A 49+-Year PNG Member...A full numismatist since 1972, retired in 2022
Very sad, very sad...
What show did they go to? LOL Even sadder...:(
The inhabitants of the planet enjoy exchanging paper for metal discs which are sometimes encased in a hard, transparent material. Some of the encased discs have colorful decals applied.
F.U.N. Orlando.
Meeting Mickey and Goofy would restore their hope to find intelligent life.
Might they be surprised that these critters had managed to discover uses for the wheel?
The brutal reality is that any civilization with the scientific, engineering and social organization to travel from one star system to another in a reasonable amount of time, would find little of interest in human accomplishments. They might explore for biological specimens of utility or interest. Humans have less than 10,000 years of technological or cultural development - and it hasn't changed very much in that time.
They would want to know where we were hiding all the women
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Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
Mork used grebbles
Pacific Northwest Numismatic Association
They would conclude that this was where all the elderly humans were housed.
Anthropological report would deduce that the Tang sample discovered a half century earlier was a health food.
I'm not sure, but being a species sufficiently advanced (and of good taste) to find their way to a Earthling coin show, I am confident I would look forward to reading their Road Report™. While I'm sure it would contain the profound economic, sociological, or psychological observations one might expect from such visitors, it would probably also note the quality of the bourse candy in certain sections of the room, correlating it with subsequent gastric distress or other effects of alien poisoning.
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Having brought only unstickered coins with them, they would be treated like dirt and leave mad enough to destroy Earth on the way out.
I dunno, but I bet they wouldn’t buy any Shriver commems. They might stand in line to get the next version of the Gold Kennedy though.
They might think this is the pinnacle of human technology.
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"Numismatic categorizations, if left unconstrained, will increase spontaneously over time." -me
The plastic thingies with green or brown stickers cost more and drinking coffee makes you have to pee half way home and you stop only to return to find that you've been robbed.
"A dog breaks your heart only one time and that is when they pass on". Unknown
There are far more strange sociological gatherings to analyze than coin shows... some of which defy explanation by rational humans. The very nature of humans is - in my opinion - why extraterrestrials are avoiding contact. Studying from a distance, much as most humans would study scorpions or a deadly bacteria.
Cheers, RickO
They might think. Human young will NOT be flying my spaceship.
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If course! If I were a prospector looking for treasure to take from alien worlds (routine search and destroy) first thing I would set sensacan look for coming out of warp close to an unexplored galactic disk. For advanced tech this planet wb looters dream. Then set course to that system, extraction crew in battle suits, shields raised, weapons armed.
They would immediately teleport all the coins to the cargo hold of their ship like Spanish Treasure to return to Spain to be sold and round up the posters from here to put in their collection of Earth life they have gathered off world life forms for eons in stasis as representative of intelligent life forms here since you guys posts bought them here - CAC and non CAC owners would be separated. Posters here who really got their attention wb served for dinner. If Then they would post their show report here with photos especially w them dining on the posters they selected for dining like pigs roasted on a stick lol.
They would be looking for the "Space Cash" they left earlier. Glad we nuked Finland to keep them from blabbing.
RogerB I disagree not for arguments sake but I personally think Humanity has expanded their knowledge by orders of magnitude just in my lifetime. I have witnessed the first Television shows on 8 inch black and white, the first cars off a production line with AIR Conditioning. The first man or monkey to orbit the Earth a Russian Cosmonaught, the first personal computer, the first mobile telephones, the first Atomic Bomb test, the first refrigerator in lieu of an Icebox, the first washing machine in lieu of a wash tub and scrubbing board.
By the way, the first T.V. show I remember in detail was I LOVE LUCY.
I have received rolls of original Roosevelt dimes and Wheat pennies on my paper route, and held Peace Dollars in pocket change.
Bond Sr CEO Fieldtechs
That's for sure! But at least the Terrans are making better looking copies of metal than those Romans or Greeks did.
They seem to be advancing, however slowly.
Pete
Cougar1978
To teleport something, you must break the item down into sub atomic particles, digitize them, store them in a memory device then send that digital image in streaming form to another device that recreates the image using atomic particles available. Extrapolating that to a logical conclusion, if that data set were stored, you could theoretically Recreate it anytime, anywhere. Logical conclusion, why would they need to do anything with or to us. They could theoritically recreate themselves, their spaceship, their world, and us ,and that rare Gold coin, which would then NOT be one of a kind and therefore less valuable.
Interestingly enough, the technology to accomplish this task is available today albeit in crude form.
We can computer scan an image and make a 3D recreation of that. We can scan an object and using laser cutters, recreate that image perfectly. We can transmit large blocks of data using light (
fiber optics) .Personally, I am convinced some of the coin doctors today are using this technology to fix or reproduce replicas of an rare coin. Theoritically we could take gold coins from the same era thereby ensuring correct composition of materials melt them, remold them and laser cut or 3d print an image. I can see this becoming an actuality in the future of counterfeiting.
Well, so much for my rambling sojourn into the twilight zone. If anyone sees Spock or Kirk at the next coin show please relay my position to them. Bob Out.
Bob Sr CEO Fieldtechs
Great post, Bob.
My daughter was one of the TAs for this class at the University of Chicago in the Big Problems department this past quarter, for which we would reframe the OP question to wonder why alien civilizations haven't been to a coin show, or at least registered to bid in Heritage auctions online:
BPRO 28800. From Fossils to Fermi's Paradox: Origin and Evolution of Intelligent Life. 100 Units.
The course approaches Fermi's question, "Are we alone in the universe?," in the light of recent evidence primarily from three fields: the history and evolution of life on Earth (paleontology), the meaning and evolution of complex signaling and intelligence (cognitive science), and the distribution, composition and conditions on planets and exoplanets (astronomy). We also review the history and parameters governing extrasolar detection and signaling. The aim of the course is to assess the interplay between convergence and contingency in evolution, the selective advantage of intelligence, and the existence and nature of life elsewhere in the universe - in order to better understand the meaning of human existence.
Instructor(s): P. Sereno; L. Rogers; S. London Terms Offered: Winter
Prerequisite(s): Third or fourth-year standing
Equivalent Course(s): ASTR 18700, PSYC 28810
Keeper of the VAM Catalog • Professional Coin Imaging • Prime Number Set • World Coins in Early America • British Trade Dollars • Variety Attribution
I wonder if Star Child, fka David Bowman, attended a coin show upon his return to Earth.