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I have a couple shipping containers which haven't been
opened since mid-2019. I'm thinking of extracting the air
within and shipping it in bottles around the world as it's
"Guaranteed to Be Pre-Covid" and safe(ish) to breath.
Somebody will buy it.
Expensive air
https://www.oxmag.c...ticles/million-air/
Money to burn? Buy some air... [neutrinos_shadow, Jul 19 2021]
British Air
https://www.mybaggage.com/shipping/air/
[xenzag, Jul 20 2021]
More British Rule Air, Hong Kong version
https://www.latimes...-mn-8265-story.html
[xenzag, Jul 20 2021]
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Fab. I'll have a dozen! :D |
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^You're not too fussy about mould and mildew, right? |
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I was thinking that airplanes should require airtight masks and compressed air for everyone, but didn't realize that the air would also have to be old. |
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How would you extract the air, whilst keeping its purity? |
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If you could insert a large sterilised inflatable bladder into the container, you could inflate the bladder with COVID-poisoned air and then tap off the displaced ancient air. But there is the danger of contamination when you are inserting the bladder. |
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You could tap a hole in diagonally opposite corners, and then gradually submerge the container so that water came in through the bottom corner, and you could tap the air from the top corner. But the air could get contaminated by the water. |
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Perhaps the only way to do it is to make an enormous hermetically sealed chamber half filled with sterilised (distilled?) water. Then do the submersion thing in that chamber. |
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//You could tap a hole in diagonally opposite corners, and
then gradually submerge the container so that water came
in through the bottom corner,// |
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Force it out the top with something heavy like Argon, or do
the opposite with hydrogen. Remember to tie it down
though, you wouldn't want a shipping container Hundenburg
incident over the neighbor's house. |
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Wouldn't the two gases mix? |
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Use a gas with a high boiling point, so after extraction, you
can easily cool the whole sample to below said boiling point
& decant. Propane perhaps?
Good idea though; silly people will definitely buy it. See
linky. |
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//you wouldn't want a shipping container Hindenburg
incident over the neighbor's house.// |
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I worry that your shipping containers will not contain enough
PCA to meet demand. Soon enough, the Daniels Plainview of
the air prospecting industry will be snaking flexible hoses into
cave complexes worldwide, air fracking concessions being
granted in all jurisdictions susceptible to, uh, lobbying, PCA
brands hawked by influencers on the more regulatorily
swashbuckling social media platforms... |
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Great idea [+] If only 8th was still around, we
could smoke him out with the suggestion of a
container filled with air from pre-Hitler days so
that none of his nasty molecules were present in
it. When the Egyption tombs were first entered,
the air trapped inside contained no "Jesus
molecules". A type of air containing the
guaranteed presence of extra molecules from
either character would have a market. How about
snake oil, from the original talking snake? |
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Sounds like great psychological value, but no real biological value.
Market it, and the silly people gonna buy it, perhaps just for fun. Good or
bad, depends on your options of other things that you could potentially
be doing with your time package, listing, market and selling air-filled
bottles. |
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Hi [Mindey]. I'm aware of all those things. Have a look at
the category in which I posted this idea. |
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Fair enough ;) I wonder, what would happen though, if this idea
was published back in 2018. |
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//I have a couple shipping containers which haven't been
opened since mid-2019// |
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I will not bring up the possibility that you are a hoarder in
training, but... |
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^
'in training'? You insult me. |
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I had to think about voting for this idea.. |
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Personally, I baked this as a kid trying to sell a
shoebox full of clean air! But then again, Wuhan
Flu wasn’t around then. So I give you a bun, as
Pre-Covid air should be very valuable. |
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