Timeline for What resources would space traders trade, assuming a gate network but no other FTL exists?
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| Aug 12, 2020 at 18:50 | answer | added | Sam D. Jones | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 12, 2020 at 17:34 | comment | added | Nuclear Hoagie | I think the term "commodity" might better capture what you're going for, rather than "resource". Commodities tend to be more like raw resources, and are generally interchangeable with commodities of the same type - a barrel of oil or ton of iron should be pretty much the same no matter where it comes from. | |
| Aug 12, 2020 at 17:26 | answer | added | Jackson Dunn | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 12, 2020 at 15:05 | answer | added | Cadence | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 12, 2020 at 13:43 | answer | added | Ruadhan | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 12, 2020 at 13:21 | comment | added | SurpriseDog | So Stargate then... I'm pretty sure the show covered all of this. | |
| Aug 12, 2020 at 13:20 | answer | added | Willk | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 12, 2020 at 13:18 | answer | added | mart | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 12, 2020 at 12:49 | comment | added | AlexP | What counts as a "resource"? Because apparently you consider that beautiful models willing to pose in suggestive photographs are not resources, knowledge is not a resource, artistic creations are not resources, objects of which there exists only a limited number are not resources, pedigreed animals are not resources... And as for "materials", the vaaaaast majority of useful materials are man-made, they do not exist in nature. There is no gasoline in nature, there is no steel in nature, no duraluminum, no high pressure polyethylene, no nylon, no optical glass, no acrylic, no fabrics... | |
| Aug 12, 2020 at 12:02 | history | reopened |
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| Aug 12, 2020 at 1:31 | comment | added | speeder | my comment was reply to the other comments, not the dupe answers. | |
| Aug 12, 2020 at 1:03 | comment | added | In Hoc Signo | The linked question is itself a duplicate. Even if it weren't, I personally think this question is not a duplicate; it is my opinion that the "duplicate" is looking for something slightly different. | |
| Aug 11, 2020 at 23:01 | comment | added | F1Krazy | I do feel like some of the answers to the linked duplicate may be relevant to your own, and I also feel as though you're being a bit hyperbolic. None of the things you listed in your comment above were suggested as answers to the dupe-target. | |
| Aug 11, 2020 at 22:56 | history | edited | F1Krazy | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 11, 2020 at 22:21 | comment | added | speeder | Pleas,e read the title of the question, pornography is not a resource, baseball card is not a resource, pets are not resources, art is not a resource either. Philosophical concepts, music and other immaterial artifacts are OBVIOUSLY NOT RESOURCES! READ THE TITLE! | |
| Aug 11, 2020 at 22:19 | history | edited | speeder | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 11, 2020 at 19:17 | history | closed |
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Duplicate of What could interstellar worlds have to trade with each other? [duplicate] | |
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| Aug 11, 2020 at 18:57 | comment | added | Duncan Drake | It's a very broad question. Generally they would not trade raw materials since they can mine them in space and would trade all sorts of artifacts: tools, industrial machinery, vehicles, works of art. Also immaterial artifacts could be valuable like music or philosophical concepts. Of course what may be valuable to one society may be worthless to another (e.g. music to a species with no hearing ability). | |
| Aug 11, 2020 at 18:50 | comment | added | JBH | This is far too broad. What wouldn't they trade? Humans traded (literally) everything from soup to nuts back when it took a year (or more) to make the trip. What people would trade has much more to do with what-do-you-need vs. what-do-you-have than it ever will the transportation technology. VTC Needs Focus. | |
| Aug 11, 2020 at 18:46 | comment | added | StephenG - Help Ukraine | It's all about cost. Goods move from point A to point B because selling them at B makes more money that making/growing costs and transporting/customs costs and marketing/distribution costs. In theory bottled water from Alpha Centauri is going to be saleable in otherwise sensible Liverpool, UK as long as they can charge enough money for it. | |
| Aug 11, 2020 at 18:36 | history | asked | speeder | CC BY-SA 4.0 |