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Replace paper currency with metallic coinage fabricated from various fissile materials. Those with low critical mass (protactinium-231, americium-243, plutonium-242) would be used for smaller denominations. Higher critical mass elements (californium-251, plutonium-238, curium-244) would be used for larger
denominations.
Halfbakery: Porn Money
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What this is *not* about. [jutta, May 18 2007]
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As featured in Station of the Tides - used (illicitly) by the planetary government to track down dissenters. |
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Today's payday, and I've got a check burning a hole in my pocket. |
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Larry Niven published this idea as "another Modest Proposal" some time in the late sixties or early seventies, although I think he didn't discuss different materials in that idea. |
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I was expecting notes and coinage featuring bikini models. |
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It would certainly prevent the stockpiling of too much currency... There is an absolute limit on how much plutonium you can keep in your safe! |
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If this ever happens, my idea for the perfect murder: plate the inside of the victim's safe with neutron reflectors. Write him a big check. Run. |
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depends on if you can also describe a "perfect murder" as "messy" |
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//I was expecting notes and coinage featuring bikini models.// Hmmm. I'll file that away for future use. |
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[custard], you go find the evidence afterwards? |
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