Only two thoughts crossed my mind while reading this:
1) Yay! Drug dealers are about to launder their money on satellites in space, just when Russia and China are threatening to shoot down... satellites in space! What could possibly go wrong?
and -
2) So. You've got all your ill gotten gains safely tucked away from the government and your local IRS aboard a satellite. In space. No jurisdictions there, a wild, wild west free for all. Whacha gonna do with it? How you gonna spend it in space, where it's safe? Seems to me you might have to bring it back down to Earth to spend it... and what then? It's suddenly under a jurisdiction, and legal beagles will be knocking at your door before you can stuff that first dollar into a stripper's garter!
I can't quite put my finger on it, but I feel like there might be some kind of flaw in their plans...
Oh! Extra credit: what do you do when a solar flare wipes out your life savings and sends it crashing back to Earth in a spectacular fireball?
Will you even be able to afford a bag of marshmallows to roast over the fire where your vast riches land?
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1) Yay! Drug dealers are about to launder their money on satellites in space, just when Russia and China are threatening to shoot down... satellites in space! What could possibly go wrong?
and -
2) So. You've got all your ill gotten gains safely tucked away from the government and your local IRS aboard a satellite. In space. No jurisdictions there, a wild, wild west free for all. Whacha gonna do with it? How you gonna spend it in space, where it's safe? Seems to me you might have to bring it back down to Earth to spend it... and what then? It's suddenly under a jurisdiction, and legal beagles will be knocking at your door before you can stuff that first dollar into a stripper's garter!
I can't quite put my finger on it, but I feel like there might be some kind of flaw in their plans...
Oh! Extra credit: what do you do when a solar flare wipes out your life savings and sends it crashing back to Earth in a spectacular fireball?
Will you even be able to afford a bag of marshmallows to roast over the fire where your vast riches land?
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