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A bit like how supermarkets used to have those pneumatic pipe
system to send money upstairs to be counted.
People cook food and place it into a rounded pipe container
and
send it to nearby people by address.
Can send food to other people and subscribe to food
subscriptions.
Berlin "pneumatic food network"
http://www.douglas-...ss/pneumess.htm#ger
Probably a hoax, but a good one; either way, Prior Art ... [8th of 7, Jan 07 2020]
physical internet
physical_20internet
[hippo, Jan 07 2020]
faxable groceries
Faxable_20Groceries
[hippo, Jan 07 2020]
toob
toob
[hippo, Jan 07 2020]
pneumatic stadium food
Pneumatic_20Stadium_20Food
[hippo, Jan 07 2020]
additional bathroom taps
Additional_20Bathroom_20Taps
[hippo, Jan 07 2020]
cheese taps
https://web.archive.../idea/Cheese_20taps
[hippo, Jan 07 2020]
Hot beverage district heating
Hot_20beverage_20district_20heating
Another scheme... [8th of 7, Jan 07 2020]
The Dabbawalas of Mumbai
https://adventure.c...walas-mumbai-india/
A manually operated variant. [Wrongfellow, Jan 08 2020]
Pneumatic tube railway
https://en.wikipedi...blic_transportation
Acceptably low lethality [8th of 7, Jan 08 2020]
Pizza delivery via the extant water pipe sytem
Aquatic_20drone_20d..._2e_2e_2e_2enetwork
...just check that is brown sauce [not_morrison_rm, Jan 08 2020]
"Crack piped"
https://1000waystod...om/wiki/Crack_Piped
From "1000 ways to die" [8th of 7, Jan 18 2020]
[link]
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If the containers were sufficiently well sealed, you could reuse the sewage network pipes for this |
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Er, "physical internet" yet again ... ? |
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(t)Uber delivers? Ideal for liquid lunches, too, I'd've thought. Bun! Would a bun clog it up, though?
I like the idea that they can be re-directed, DNS/router-like mannor |
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It's a technological progession: |
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1. You go to vendor.
2. Vendor delivers to you via their own driven vehicle, or a pool vehicle i.e. Uber.
3. Vendor delivers to you by drone or autonomous vehicle.
4. Vendor delivers to you by switchable fixed link (pneumatic tube).
5. Replcators.
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1. & 2. are Baked and WKTE; 3. is being trialed; 4. is technically possible pending investment in infrastructure; 5. we are keeping to ourselves for the moment... |
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This isn't a bad idea, [chron] - it's simply that it's been halfbaked to death in various forms ... |
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//5. we are keeping to ourselves for the moment.// Your
security needs some improvement - I've already got one of
your replicators. No, wait, two. No... |
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When you get home from the supermarket, laden
down with your shopping, make yourself a nice cup of
tea and open a new packet of biscuits only to
discover that it's full of baked beans, that's when you
realise that you inadvertently went to the new
"packet switched food" shop. Nervously, you inspect
all your other shopping... |
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// I've already got one of your replicators. No, wait, two. No... // |
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<Humms opening bars of "The Sorceror's Apprentice", photoshops [MB]'s face onto a pic of Mickey Mouse dressed as a wizard, giggles/> |
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Looks like [8th] has assimilated a few too many. |
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//A bit like how supermarkets used to have those pneumatic
pipe system to send money upstairs to be counted.// |
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The newly built supermarket near me has those. I was a
little surprised, but they are really something. |
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It's not surprising at all. The technology is cheap, simple, safe and reliable. If there was something more cost-effective, it would be used. There isn't. |
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If you want to move small items rapidly through a large building, pneumatic tubes are the (current) optimal solution. Larger, heavier items, or those of diverse shape, generally require conveyors (as in airport baggage handling) or stacker trucks, and both those solutions often use an intermediate container like a tray or a pallet. |
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It's perfectly practical to move living* humans by pneumatic tube, too. |
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//It's not surprising at all.// |
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If it's so optimal, why did chronological (and the
wikipedia article "Cash carrier") use the past tense?
And
why doesn't every large supermarket do it?
The supermarket which the new-build replaced was (I
assume) built
for purpose, certainly didn't predate the technology - and
didn't
have such a tube system. Instead it used the technology
of a person
physically going round and collecting the money. That's
going to be
cheaper in capital costs, although perhaps not as secure. |
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I suspect that tube delivery has become more reliable, in
terms of
reduced jamming. Or it may be that with fewer, larger
cash
payments the tills don't need to stock up on change quite
so often. |
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Aquatic drone delivery of pizza via existing network |
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If using the ‘physical internet’ means that physical cookies get sent
to me, I’m all for it |
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// a person physically going round and collecting the money. That's
going to be cheaper in capital costs // |
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That's probably why the old store didn't have it. The new one had
deeper-pocketed investors, probably. |
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// it may be that with fewer, larger cash payments the tills don't
need to stock up on change quite so often. // |
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That would favor having a human do it, I think. |
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Packet sniffing will have a whole different connotation especially with a human system . |
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