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Ask a number of well known personalities to blow up a few balloons then sell them as 'Celebrity Breath.'
(?) Et Tu, Babe
http://www.unc.edu/.../bkrvw/10-10-97.HTM
Abraham Lincoln's morning breath [jaksplat, Feb 07 2005]
The Odd Book of Data
http://www.antiqboo...boox/btb/4130.shtml
Interesting compendium of odd info ca. 1965 [csea, Nov 10 2005]
5 Ceasar Atoms?
http://www.globalch...es/samson/aerosols/
Conflict with [UB]'s anno [5th Earth, Nov 11 2005]
[link]
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Because the number of atoms in a single breath is so much more than the number of breath-sized units of air there are in the Earth's atmosphere, it's fairly easy to show with basic probability that any given breath you take contains a few atoms of, for example, Jesus's last breath.
The same logic will show that, assuming sufficient mixing of the atmosphere, any given breath you take also contains atoms previously inhaled by thouands of celebrities.
A more exclusive service would be to capture a celebrity's dying breath in it's entirety - "Celebrity Death Breath". |
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Absolutely bound to happen at some point on this ridiculous ball of a planet. Somebody out there is probably already trying to sell Britney's breath. |
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Someone once hung around near the
drains outside Kate Bush's house,
attempting to collect and bottle her
used bathwater. |
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I once read that with each breath a person breathes roughly 200,000 molecules that Leonardo daVinci breathed. I wonder if the same is true for Hitler? Or Britney? |
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Maybe the more recent people haven't as wide a distribution yet as the oldies. |
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Indeed. Also, there's water... |
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There is the _whole_ soul thing ... in essence, what's mine is mine and dies with me. You will eventually use some oxygen and it will never be used by you or anyone else as oxygen again, unless you are part plant. |
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So, my soul consumes oxygen? What if I happen to have an alternative fuels soul that consumes cooking oil instead? |
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Perhaps global warming isn't caused by an abundance of CO2, but by all of us humans consuming O2. Is that a real religion, [re], or did you just make it up? |
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I guess there's quite a bit of Queen Mary floating about, then. |
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Each breath is what I read. It was in a book I read in my childhood. I can't remember the book title nor the subject but that passage fired my imagination and has stuck with me. |
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So that’s where your artistic ability comes from. I’ll have to give that a try. |
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<breathes deep - thinks of Leonardo>
<breathes deeper - feels a wave of artistic ability coming on>
<breathes deeper still - begins seeing spots>
<bre... woah, this is going to be a dark painting. *thud* |
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I'll paint you a mona lisa! |
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Chances are, it'll contain a molecule that used to be part of da Vinci. |
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Of course, the chance may be small, but it is still a chance, no? |
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Does a litre of air really have an order of magnatude fewer molecules than an ideal gas? Assuming one mol of molecules for one litre of air, I calculate he breathed 2.47x10^31 molecules. |
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You could mix the balloon breaths together for added marketability. Britney and Hitler would be awesome, but I fear too few Nazi balloons survived WW2. Maybe Saddam Hussein and Paris Hilton exhalations or even mixing farts and breaths, but this could get messy. |
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UB - I *think* your probability is a bit simplistic. Using your numbers, the odds that a given molecule was breathed by LdV is 10^14 (and this assumes that LdV never breathed the same molecule twice). Then the probability that a given breath contains at least one molecule breathed by LdV is (approximating some of your values):
1-((1-(1/10^14))^(10^22)) |
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Artist's Breath 1960 by Piero Manzoni
Piece of work at Tate Modern - worth having a look at. A
stunning piece of work in my humble opninion, but he is
more widely known for notoriously packaging up pieces of
his shit - Merda d'artista |
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How much would Christopher Eccleston's breath be worth? |
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[bristolz] I think I read the same book, see [link] |
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Combine Manzoni's Artists Breath and
canned shit packaged for the
consumers of today and you WOULD get
celebrity farts. I think it would be
popular to save them and not partake--
like no one opened Manzoni's shit
(because it was just too darn precious)
and it just burst on its own. But with
celebrity farts it would be like: What
vintage is it? All the more precious for
a 1991 Brad Pitt fart when he wasn't
that famous yet. They defiantly would
have to be very famous in order to
collect their fart and willingly take part
in smelling it. There is the phenomenon
of farting under the bed covers and
then going under for a smell--if a
person has created the fart they actually
want to smell it. Or they are
comfortable with the smell, like I made
that little odor and I'm marking the air
around me as my territory. No one
enjoys in the slightest smelling other
people's farts. So the celebrity fart
smelled willingly would be an attempt
at getting a sensory answer to the
cliched celeb quesitons "what would it
be like if I were X celebrity" and "what is
X celebrity really like" at a moment
when the celebrity is hopefully away
from all the glamour and lights and
sufficiently acting like themselves
enough in order to fart, smell it, and
then think--hey that's me. |
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Personally I disagree about the "0.5 L" breath value. I just tested with a plastic bag, and a casual breath for me is closer to a full liter. And I have lung problems. [edit] Found a website that does the calcs. They claim, on average, 5 molcules wtih each breath that were in Ceasar's /last breath alone/, nevermind how many he breathed in a lifetime. A lot more likely than 9*10^14:1 against. |
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penka45 - would they then be able to say "I recognise
that farticular smell" ? |
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