Platypus

[silverbox]

My friend was wondering how much a Platypus would cost on silk road.. 

Anyone know??

He wants to start an underground zoo (in the US).

Thx in advance.

[Red Emerald]

I'd be down for a hedgehog.  Anyone got one for sale? http://btczoo.com/ looks available

[MPOE-PR]

RedEmerald : What is the point of linking an otc profile with no ratings on your signature?

[Red Emerald]

RedEmerald : What is the point of linking an otc profile with no ratings on your signature?

Because one day I will have ratings.

I bought some stuff on the forums, but they didn't have a rating either so we couldn't rate each other.

[MPOE-PR]

You know, you can rate someone even without any rating yourself. You just need to auth.

[rjk]

You know, you can rate someone even without any rating yourself. You just need to auth.

Are you sure? Wasn't like that a little bit ago. Needed a rated user to bootstrap your rating first.

[Red Emerald]

You know, you can rate someone even without any rating yourself. You just need to auth.

I did auth.  Gribble told me I couldn't rate them because I didn't have a rating

gribble: Error: You have to have received some ratings in order to rate other users.

[silverbox]

Any ballpark estimates of btc cost of a Platypus?

[John (John K.)]

You would have to try smuggle one in from Australia. Not really doable I'd reckon. But hey, some zoos may have surplus playtypuses 

[silverbox]

So tons of illegal drugs get smuggled every day, but its just not possible to smuggle one Platypus??

[John (John K.)]

Look, it's easier to smuggle non-living stuff then living stuff. Loads more. Just go google animal smuggling and take a look. Scanners show living stuff miles easier then non living substances.

[silverbox]

scanners?  Just put a wall of bricks of coke around the Platypus cage, they can't find the coke, they can't find the Platypus

[silverbox]

Think someone would provide a Platypus for like 500 BTC?

[Red Emerald]

Think someone would provide a Platypus for like 500 BTC?

Can you even find a platypus for sale?

[silverbox]

Maybe 600 BTC?

[silverbox]

Do I hear 700?

[JL421]

scanners?  Just put a wall of bricks of coke around the Platypus cage, they can't find the coke, they can't find the Platypus

Just made my day!

[silverbox]

800 BTC?!?!!?

[RodeoX]

What do you do with a platypus? Do you smoke them or snort them or something?

[drakahn]

800 BTC?!?!!?

your getting close to how much you would have to pay someone just to deliver the thing to you, now think about the cost of paying someone to catch/steal one for you, and the cost of any thing else needed to smuggle it

[slothbag]

If you want someone to smuggle it down their pants they'll probably ask more than 800BTC.. the venom from a male platypus spur is excruciatingly painful.. apparently.

[guruvan]

800 BTC?!?!!?

that's not gonna pay for the wall of bricks of coke....

[MemoryDealers]

This guy already bought a Platypus for Bitcoins:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgrnD3FAKlY

[sunnankar]

What do you do with a platypus? Do you smoke them or snort them or something?

I think you eat them.

[silverbox]

This is starting to sound expensive..


1000 BTC???

[rjk]

This is starting to sound expensive..


1000 BTC???

Here: http://www.stuffedark.com/platypusft.htm

I'll order it for you, and you can send me 1000BTC. Sound good?

[silverbox]

I already made this suggestion to my friend, no dice!

He said it might make a good prop to build the habitat around till the real deal could be acquired.

[evoorhees]

scanners?  Just put a wall of bricks of coke around the Platypus cage, they can't find the coke, they can't find the Platypus

That is hilarious

[silverbox]

do I hear 1200 BTC??

[RodeoX]

do I hear 1200 BTC??

For 1200 BTC I could make one. Just sew a ducks bill and rattlesnake fangs to a beaver.

[silverbox]

Has to be real!! My friend will accept no substitute!!

[silverbox]

I wonder how much money my friend has for this project..


1500 BTC??

[tarrant_01]

I think 10,000 or so BTC should do.  Not sure it would survive the boat trip though.

[silverbox]

10k seems a bit high.. 

Does anyone think 2k BTC might be enuf?? 

[eroxors]

10k seems a bit high.. 

Does anyone think 2k BTC might be enuf?? 

No, I think 10k is probably about right. It's highly illegal (for good reason) and it would be extremely difficult to do. Perhaps you could convince your friend that a duck and a groundhog would suffice? Those are readily available.

[miscreanity]

Got my vote for Bitcoin mascot. I don't even want to try thinking up a name, though.

[Satori]

ProTip: Platypi hatch from eggs, which are much easier to ship.  The eggs take 10 days to hatch.

Sure you could label it some other species and pay for whatever Super Awesome Ultra Deluxe Shipping they have.

So, a little more research and you can just post for someone in Australia to obtain and ship the egg for a bounty.

Have you given any thought to how you'll get it inoculated against the various germs and viri in the air where you live that it's surely not going to have an immunity to?  You probably won't be able to take it to the vet.  That means that if it turns out to be male, you won't be able to get it de-venomed either.  You'll have a very cute, poisonous mammalian duck freak waddling around your house.  Has your friend thought this through?

[The LT]

scanners?  Just put a wall of bricks of coke around the Platypus cage, they can't find the coke, they can't find the Platypus

I loled so hard... 

[Cablez]

ProTip: Platypi hatch from eggs, which are much easier to ship.  The eggs take 10 days to hatch.

Sure you could label it some other species and pay for whatever Super Awesome Ultra Deluxe Shipping they have.

So, a little more research and you can just post for someone in Australia to obtain and ship the egg for a bounty.

Have you given any thought to how you'll get it inoculated against the various germs and viri in the air where you live that it's surely not going to have an immunity to?  You probably won't be able to take it to the vet.  That means that if it turns out to be male, you won't be able to get it de-venomed either.  You'll have a very cute, poisonous mammalian duck freak waddling around your house.  Has your friend thought this through?

QFTFT!!!!!!!

[eroxors]

I thought about the egg idea, but I'd imagine that it needs constant regulated temperatures and conditions in order to not die... air-mail is often sent in depressurized cargo bays, which would certainly kill a platypus in an egg.

Also, I already feel bad for whatever creature your friend gets his/her hands on. 

[Mushroomized]

This isn't funny my brother was addicted to platypi and died from an overdose. I saw his dealer at the funeral and he was already selling again. It makes me sick that you guys do these kinds of things without thinking of how addiction can ruin a family.

[Satori]

Jeez Mushroomized, how pure are they selling them where you are?  If it's anything like over here, they've been cut with leopard or even dolphin by the time they get to the street.  You're lucky if you get one that doesn't have a dorsal fin.

I feel for your loss, but from here it sounds more like your brother likely didn't overdose per se, quite so much as miss when he tried to get the spurs to dig into a vein.  It's difficult to get a decent aim when the little guys are thrashing around that hard in your arms trying to get away.  Sometimes people will have a rogue spur jab them right in the jugular, and then it's game over for real.

I wish you'd consider giving lectures at schools.  You'd be an obvious person to give them, and it's a message a lot of kids need to hear.  When I notice the kids today doing the "duckface" trying to score a little 'pus, I wish they knew better what they were getting into, and that their parents knew the warning signs.

[RodeoX]

Jeez Mushroomized, how pure are they selling them where you are?  If it's anything like over here, they've been cut with leopard or even dolphin by the time they get to the street.  You're lucky if you get one that doesn't have a dorsal fin.

I feel for your loss, but from here it sounds more like your brother likely didn't overdose per se, quite so much as miss when he tried to get the spurs to dig into a vein.  It's difficult to get a decent aim when the little guys are thrashing around that hard in your hands trying to get away.  Sometimes people will get a rogue spur right in the jugular, and then it's game over for real.

I wish you'd consider giving lectures at schools.  You'd be an obvious person to give them, and it's a message a lot of kids need to hear.  When I notice the kids today doing the "duckface" trying to score a little 'pus, I wish they knew better what they were getting into, and that their parents knew the warning signs.

Amen. The palatypi I can score has been stepped on so many times it 's hard to know what your getting. On the street dealers will sew a duck bill onto a beaver and sell it to kids!  What is the world coming to when you cant trust a street dealer.

[Mushroomized]

I still like how the first discussion in this thread was about that one guys btc-otc account..

[Red Emerald]

I still like how the first discussion in this thread was about that one guys btc-otc account..

I've got ratings now, though!

[silverbox]

ProTip: Platypi hatch from eggs, which are much easier to ship.  The eggs take 10 days to hatch.

Sure you could label it some other species and pay for whatever Super Awesome Ultra Deluxe Shipping they have.

My friend loves this idea. 

Does the egg need oxygen?  or to be a certain temperature?  or to have near sea level pressure on it?

[Satori]

ProTip: Platypi hatch from eggs, which are much easier to ship.  The eggs take 10 days to hatch.

Sure you could label it some other species and pay for whatever Super Awesome Ultra Deluxe Shipping they have.

My friend loves this idea. 

Does the egg need oxygen?  or to be a certain temperature?  or to have near sea level pressure on it?

Welp, I didn't mean to convey the idea that I'm a Platypus Egg Expert or anything.   

As I understand it, eggs don't need oxygen because there's a little air bubble in them at one end.  If you think about chicken eggs, you'll get what I mean.

They absolutely need to be kept warm, which is probably the biggest concern.  Particularly if you're having them shipped Air, which is the fastest.  They'll be at high altitudes and low pressure.

And keeping them free from jostling is going to be important.  Label them Fragile, obviously.  Someone I was reading online had been shipping chicken eggs using egg carton holders, on the top and the bottom, and with a lot of bubble wrap and styrofoam and tape around that assembly.  Evidently they'd been shipped just fine.  Of course, he was talking about a percentage of the eggs that made it and lived; keep that in mind in terms of your friend's case with attempting just a single egg.  No idea how he managed with the warmth factor, but I doubt he was sending chicken eggs trans-continental over the oceans.  It was probably within the same country, reducing both the time in transit and the duration at high altitudes.

I'd think those prolonged chemical warming packs that campers use might be good, but somehow I doubt they'd last for two or three days.

Your friend has a lot of research to do on this before proceeding.  I don't have all the answers.  I would also think that if your friend isn't willing to do the online research needed first, they probably lack the interest and involvement that's needed to take care of the platypus once it arrives anyway.  It would involve quite a lot of forethought, as I'd mentioned before.  Any word on how they'd deal with the fact that males are poisonous, in a country where a trip to the vet - or the emergency room if necessary - simply wouldn't be an option for them?  Or the unfamiliar germs and virii problem?


Be well,

- Satori

[silverbox]

Yeah it seems like the trick is a pressurized/heated container..  I wonder how similar chicken eggs are to Platypi.  My friend thinks that trial runs of Chicken eggs could be beneficial to determing if it would work for Platypi..

[rjk]

Yeah it seems like the trick is a pressurized/heated container..  I wonder how similar chicken eggs are to Platypi.  My friend thinks that trial runs of Chicken eggs could be beneficial to determing if it would work for Platypi..

I'd like to see you airmail a pressurized container. No wait, it wouldn't even be allowed on the plane.

[silverbox]

aerosol can's aren't allowed in checked luggage?

[rjk]

aerosol can's aren't allowed in checked luggage?

Only small ones, that don't have inbuilt heating aparatus.

[Red Emerald]

aerosol can's aren't allowed in checked luggage?

Where have you been since 2001?

[brendio]

aerosol can's aren't allowed in checked luggage?

Where have you been since 2001?

I've checked in aerosol cans on multiple occasions since 2001.

In 2001, I bought a Swiss army knife in the airport (after passing through the security check), and took it in my hand luggage one four subsequent flights.

[silverbox]

aerosol can's aren't allowed in checked luggage?

Only small ones, that don't have inbuilt heating aparatus.

Blah!!  It seems like a big one with space shuttle insulation could work!!

[silverbox]

aerosol can's aren't allowed in checked luggage?

Where have you been since 2001?

I've checked in aerosol cans on multiple occasions since 2001.

In 2001, I bought a Swiss army knife in the airport (after passing through the security check), and took it in my hand luggage one four subsequent flights.

Swiss army knives are very dangerous.. mm'kay..

[Phinnaeus Gage]

I've read this entire thread with the hope of seeing an image of a platypus, but no joy, hence this post.

[silverbox]

I've read this entire thread with the hope of seeing an image of a platypus, but no joy, hence this post.

Awww, I sent that pic to my friend!

[Bitcoin Oz]

Im in Australia and I could get a platypus. But I would never send it out of the country because it would never survive.

 

[silverbox]

Im in Australia and I could get a platypus. But I would never send it out of the country because it would never survive.

 

I'm sure a habitat could be constructed outside of Aussieland where a Platypus would thrive!!

[silverbox]

Im in Australia and I could get a platypus. But I would never send it out of the country because it would never survive.

 

I'm sure a habitat could be constructed outside of Aussieland where a Platypus would thrive!!

I'd think a habitat where an otter would thrive, would be good for platypi as well.

[silverbox]

Im in Australia and I could get a platypus. But I would never send it out of the country because it would never survive.

 

I'm sure a habitat could be constructed outside of Aussieland where a Platypus would thrive!!

I'd think a habitat where an otter would thrive, would be good for platypi as well.

Its purfect!

[finkleshnorts]

SCAMMER!!!

Platypuses are irreversible

[rjk]

SCAMMER!!!

Platypuses are irreversible

What about otters? I hear the NSA has some advanced otter-crackers.

[finkleshnorts]

I don't use otters, because I don't like how the government just keeps breeding them and breeding them and giving whole otter herds to failed zoos just to keep the status quo.

[silverbox]

What do you think the cost and area of an adequate enclosure would be?

[slothbag]

Come on Silverbox, just like your poor Platypus trapped in a suitcase in an aeroplanes hold, let this thread slowly suffocate and DIE!

[Dansker]

This is one hell of a determined buyer I must say.

[chefjc]

This could be the best thread ever. Epic platypus FTW

[Dansker]

How about zoos? Won't some zoos have Platypus and be able to legally sell one?

Maybe in some corrupt country, where you could take better care of it anyways...?

[Mushroomized]

Have you thought about cryogenic storage for shipping?

[Martin666]

This topic is just disgusting...
How much to put silverbox in a zoo...

[SaltySpitoon]

This topic is just disgusting...
How much to put silverbox in a zoo...

Well, I could probably make something happen for... Oh, 1,000 BTC? Maybe 1,200 BTC to cover shipping.

[silverbox]

I wonder if my friend is willing to pay this kind of money.. I guess I should double check with him...