When they find the real ET/aliens, is it going to be bullish or bearish for markets?

[Overnight]

It has potentially very large impact on the market so in "Trading" section it stays...

LOL, yes, I suppose it would have an impact on trading, but...It isn't going to happen? If you wish me to bite, then I would say, if Spielberg's ET suddenly showed up, the markets would go total bearish. Why? Because ET from his movie trades flowers, and has no need for money.

So money=useless.

If it is Independence Day, the world is destroyed, so money=useless.

If it is Vulcans from Star Trek, money=useless.

We could go on and on. So go long gold futures when they show up? Hehe!

(Money=fiat currency here)

 

[fordewind]

shoulda been unfilled gap to the ground

 

[deltastrike]

These shouldn't be used as criterias to evaluate whether a country's model works well or not in the first place. And I disagree that they have successfully exported their system/sphere of influence even somewhat.

It works well in the sense of what they've achieved as a technocratic authoritarian model. From the outside looking in, if you will, the system would unify a planet's population and keep them in lock-step. Pretty useful and successful from that point of view.

The very statement of yours that is proof of that. And there is really nothing "amazing" about how they "pacify, suppress, and unify their population". Any dictatorial regime based on violence can achieve that easily because we all fear death and pain, especially death and pain imposed on our loved ones.

Except they achieve all of that by nefariously and successfully applying technology unlike what the world has ever seen before while keeping the population relatively passive.

 

[nooby_mcnoob]

@deltastrike you're pretty good at conveying your thoughts. Wish I was as good.

 

[JSOP]

LOL, yes, I suppose it would have an impact on trading, but...It isn't going to happen? If you wish me to bite, then I would say, if Spielberg's ET suddenly showed up, the markets would go total bearish. Why? Because ET from his movie trades flowers, and has no need for money.

So money=useless.

If it is Independence Day, the world is destroyed, so money=useless.

If it is Vulcans from Star Trek, money=useless.

We could go on and on. So go long gold futures when they show up? Hehe!

(Money=fiat currency here)

Well if money is going to be useless, so would be gold.

 

[Overnight]

Well if money is going to be useless, so would be gold.

Nah JSOP, yer not thinking like the aliens do...After all, where is gold created, ultimately? In stars! (Supernovae)

It seems logical to assume that gold is a universal metal. It is formed by stars, and eventually peters out into and onto all planetoids. It is certainly more universal than our paper debt notes. *sniffs*

 

[JSOP]

It works well in the sense of what they've achieved as a technocratic authoritarian model. From the outside looking in, if you will, the system would unify a planet's population and keep them in lock-step. Pretty useful and successful from that point of view.

That maybe true but also don't forget that the model is also tailored made for the Chinese population, its personalities, its culture and its tradition. Not everybody in the world is Chinese. This is something that you also have to take into account assuming that the model is "successful" in China which I still don't wholly agree even in terms of just unifying population.

Except they achieve all of that by nefariously and successfully applying technology unlike what the world has ever seen before while keeping the population relatively passive.

No it's not the technology that's keeping population passive, it's the threat and application of violence that is. Without the current technology, the population was also passive. Nothing is really changed. The technology is just allowing them to surveil the population more effectively and efficiently but ultimately it's the violence that's pacifying the population.

 

[JSOP]

Nah JSOP, yer not thinking like the aliens do...After all, where is gold created, ultimately? In stars! (Supernovae)

It seems logical to assume that gold is a universal metal. It is formed by stars, and eventually peters out into and onto all planetoids. It is certainly more universal than our paper debt notes. *sniffs*

Yes but you are assuming gold is valued in other planets like on earth. What if it's as abundant as dust on other planets? If there is not going to be a "world" on earth, then gold would have no value either on earth.

 

[Overnight]

Yes but you are assuming gold is valued in other planets like on earth. What if it's as abundant as dust on other planets? If there is not going to be a "world" on earth, then gold would have no value either on earth.

Hehe. We seem to be skirting the true issue of the OP. Will the markets go bull or bear if ET comes to earth. I say, it will never happen. If it does, gold will be the barter instrument of choice. And gold price will go up, because alien demand for gold will cause price to rise, since they will be sucking away our supply. Hmmph!

 

[Nobert]

The're here already. They just don't wanna talk.

Why do destroyers use same quality cams as mexican farmers to records chupacabras.