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I regret not getting clearer pictures to zoom in and see the words on the instruments but I felt the need to be discreet as I was just walking by, these ocean-front home garages are rarely/NEVER left open unattended. What is this mystery chamber?
One more different angle picture in the comments, you can see the seating bench in the chamber.
It's a reptillian machine to reconstruct the human skin.
It's their time machine, don't let them know you know.
...and you didn't molotov it? Class traitor.
"I don't even want to take a whizz on this. I used to dream of taking a whizz on this!"
Earlier I saw a stand-up comedian lambast a pregnancy test company for marketing their products as "the most sophisticated technology you will ever urinate on" as a tagline that plays poorly with women but strongly with men. Men would love to piss on something high tech.
In case anyone else was curious, looks like the most common use is for the rich to recover faster from the bruising and swelling of plastic surgery.
Dragon Ball Z-lift
My wife has to have a full knee replacement. I wonder if this treatment would help her recovery.
I'm not a billionaire but I'd gladly pay the cost for a bunch of sessions if it would help.
My wife had to have her knee replaced a year ago, and she's only in her 30s. The recovery was slow, and she complains about the range of motion she lost, but it's a lot more stable than her old knee at least.
But her case was also one-of-a-kind complicated, because she has a rare genetic condition where her kneecaps basically never worked in the first place. In any case, she got through it.
Anyway, I hope everything goes well for your wife.
Hyperbaric treatment is used for wound care. My wife had to do a bunch of it after a surgery, but only because things weren't healing well on their own.
Given the choice, she would have preferred to skip it. It's very annoying because you can't wear any moisturizer, chap stick... anything with oil. O2 reacts with oils and it's a fire hazard.
Well, the good news is that this is just a fake hyperbaric chamber that rich people get swindled into buying because they don't actually understand science.
Actual hyperbaric chambers are illegal to own and operate in residential properties, so there are private companies that build chambers that do not run on the right amount of pressure or oxygen to reap the benefit of hyperbaric medicine.
This is just an expensive form of snake oil.
I don’t think it’s right to say these treatments don’t do anything positive.
I recommend them for everyone with over 100 mil dollars. Make sure to get the nicer carpeted version and wear comfy socks!
Actual hyperbaric chambers are illegal to own and operate in residential properties
Are the dangers that high? And how is this enforced?
High oxygen concentrations are extremely dangerous.
Pre 2025, FDA in US
A comment of silence for the FDA. It will be missed.
Anyway Don’t forget the people who burn alive! Like that kid at the shitty autism clinic thing.
If you aren’t a professional you risk static shocks and things like that which turn it immediately into a fire death tube.
That makes sense... After learning about it from my wife's experience, I wouldn't want to go on that journey without a professional present. Shit can go very wrong.
has. people - kids - have been killed. they're really good when managed correctly but dangerous as fuck if standards/training fall.
Just go grab this one. The garage door is open!
For reals. Because update: I walked past it again after work this evening now dark outside, and the garage door is still wide open! Fully lit inside and still no one in there. Very weird. Maybe they forgot they left their garage door open. But this area, there are billionaires and there are homeless people, you know how beaches are, so people are usually really tight about their security so it makes me wonder why they left their garage door open all day and I also wonder how there's been no intrusion or robbery yet.
Ummm…. My many jokes aside…. Are you sure they aren’t dead inside of it or something?
It's wide open with no indication of human occupancy from the angle I could see. I dunno. I didn't go any closer than the photos indicate.
One of my speculations is (first of all that whole unit looks brand squeaky new, like it's never even been used before), I speculate they're just low-key showing it off because their pathetic overly-wealthy lives with all the fuck-you-money, they can buy anything they want , but what fun is that if they can't show off their wealth to all the lowly humans around them? 😆 And no harm done if anybody breaks in or steals it, they could just buy another one.
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Maybe it's a suicide pod?
Fuck me, I'm dumbfounded that people with billions would choose to live on a fucking main street.
There are more cars in that one picture than I see in a week. Christ.
That's definitely a hyperbaric chamber.
I did an image search for "hyperbaric chamber" and this place popped up in the first few results, and whatever chamber they're using looks very similar to that one, so it's likely from the same manufacturer https://www.facialplasticsurgeryofaustin.com/about/our-on-site-hyperbaric-oxygen-treatment/
Edit: specifically that's apparently a hyperbaric oxygen therapy or HBOT chamber
Would a billionaire live on a busy street like that? Maybe just a multimillionaire.
Personally, if I was a billionaire, I’d rather have a maid and groundskeeper than a hyperbaric chamber.
If you were a billionaire you wouldn't have to choose. It's no longer "or," it's "and" for everything.
All that money and their garage looks as dirty and pleb as the rest of us.
Apparently they do their laundry in the garage?! In that garage?
Edit: my comment is based on OP's second picture, in the comments. Also, they do laundry at all?!
Beachfront billionaire with a SCUBA hobby perhaps? That's a hyperbaric chamber.
What I thought too, but it's not like you can climb out the water with the bends and stroll home.
No but it could mean the difference between having one available for you to get rushed to by emergency services rather than the local hospital which may or may not be close by.
Yeah my idea exactly. What would you even do with a hyperbaric chamber
Edit: apparently it has health benefits
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/treatments/17811-hyperbaric-oxygen-therapy
If I was filthy rich and had the space, I'd go for it. Be interesting to see how fast my flesh wounds heal, throw my wife in there when she has a headache.
maybe we're wrongly assuming they use it inside their garage? maybe it's just being stored but idk
I could see an ultra rich scuba diver buying a hyperbaric chamber for their yacht. Decompression sickness is deadly and this is the only treatment. Hyperbaric chambers aren't common, there might not be one in an entire country. We get warnings about their availability when traveling. If you're diving off your yacht in a remote location, this could save your life.
That said, there's a step set up. Maybe they're shore diving at home and decided to splurge on something crazy and unnecessary.
Your second picture is a very recognisable location. I sussed out the house on Google maps - it’s a foreboding kind of architecture when it’s all closed up. I guess if you’re never there you don’t want people feeling like it’s accessible. The houses next door look like they have turntables for their cars in their driveways - that is some expensive luxury convenience there.
Time machine. That's how billionaires get richer, they go back in time and change little things to benefit themselves.