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.
That looks like a BMW R Nine T. That’s a cool motorcycle!
Didn’t think you could just walk by a billionaire’s house. And that they would have such a small garage and that they would leave it open.
I was assuming it was a fancy cold plunge pool since there are 2 massive water chillers hooked up to it. But the 2nd photo makes it clear it’s hyperbaric O2. The water chillers must be for climate control since you don’t want any fans or anything else that may cause a spark in a high oxygen environment
I think it’s a Macy-Pan Hyperbaric Oxygen Chamber. I found an image but the link doesn’t load
That site sometimes loads and sometimes doesn’t, but this appears to be the exact model
I’m curious what the purpose of the screen on the outside and the telephone are for?
It’s a reptillian machine to reconstruct the human skin.
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.
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?
I hear they all kinda are
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!
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.
Yeap, my dad used to run hypobaric chambers for the air force and then for the FAA. Just maintaining that kind of equipment is basically a full time job, let alone actually monitoring their uses.
has. people - kids - have been killed. they’re really good when managed correctly but dangerous as fuck if standards/training fall.
Oh wow. What a nightmare.
Holy shit, this is shocking.
yeah that particular shit show is def nearing worst case scenario.
Actual hyperbaric chambers are illegal to own and operate in residential properties
Are the dangers that high? And how is this enforced?
They are very dangerous to operate. You’re working with 100 percent O2 under pressure, so even little things like lotions/ perfumes that use a thinning product can cause combustion.
As far as enforcement… There are only a couple different companies capable of making a chamber that can withstand 6 atmospheres of pressure safely, and they’re all governed by CMS like other pieces of heavy duty medical equipment.
There’s a lot of licensing and overwatch for medical equipment like this, if a company were to actually make one without going through the proper channels the companies and licensing orgs that have done their due diligence would come after them.
Not to mention that breathing 100% O2 at pressure can be deadly by itself.
100% O2 at sea level means you are breathing about 1 bar of oxygen, usually called 1 partial pressure of oxygen (PPO2). The commercial machine in the OP supports 1.5-3 atm of pressure, assuming that I saw the right info. 100% O2 at 3 atm would mean breathing about 3 PPO2, which is more than enough to cause problems.
You said it needs to safely support 6 atms of pressure, do you mean for the safety margin? You could safely breath air (21% O2) at 6 bars, it would be about 1.25 PPO2. Breathing 100% O2 at 6 bars would be about 6 PPO2, absolute insanity.
Divers expose themselves to a maximum of 1.4 PPO2 because it starts to become toxic at 1.6 and above.
When diving, there is a balancing act between nitrogen and oxygen that starts with your air mixture. More oxygen and less nitrogen lowers your risk of decompression sickness (caused by nitrogen) and allows you to stay deeper for longer, but it lowers your maximum operating depth (MOD) because of oxygen toxicity.
A common “nitrox” mixture is 32% O2, which has a MOD of 111 ft. Going deeper risks having seizures underwater which are obviously extremely dangerous. We put the O2 mixture and maximum PPO2 into our dive computers and never exceed any of the thresholds it gives us.
That said, things like cold, physical exertion, etc. bring the threshold down to that 1.6 bar number. You are exposed to those things while scuba diving but not in a hyperbaric chamber, so the threshold is probably higher in a hyperbaric chamber.
I wouldn’t ever think about “hyperbaric oxygen therapy” outside of a hospital, the risks are too high.
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.
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.
are they doing the thing with the automatic on/off ice water cooling. It use to be standard for a lot of surgeries but medicare dropped it and then insurnace followed suit but its not that expensive and people make jury rig ones real cheap.
My mom had both knees done and recovered fairly quickly and she’s horrendously out of shape.
my wife was in decent shape with her first surgery but there is something with her that she always is in the worst percentile of outcomes. Happens with medications to. She gets the side effects that only a few people do. No idea why. Im the opposite.
I hope things go well for her.
Thanks but they by and large don’t and we plan for that and handle it as best we can. Sure wish I lived in a civilized country where you could get some support with difficult situations like this though.
Good luck to her. I had a partial on Wednesday. I’ve worked with many PT patients. She can do it!! And two weeks after she will feel so much better!
It can also help with a lot of conditions like MS and ME.
…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.
Just don’t piss on electric fences, fellas.
A fellow cartoon connoisseur I see!
It’s their time machine, don’t let them know you know.
Just close their garage door and unplug the control panel.
Heehee.
I wonder what laws I’d be breaking if I did that.
I always err on the side of caution: “If it’s not yours, don’t touch it.”
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.It’s a few houses down from one certain house where JFK & Marilyn Monroe played hide the salami together, where also years later Paul McCartney & John Lennon were last together in the same place (or something Beatles last time something). Paris Hilton also had a house here further up the road before the January 7th fires consumed it. These homes are usually empty because the people who own these houses have several homes all over the world, so these are just an occasional beach retreat for them, an eyesore and ocean-view-blocker for everyone else.
Anyway my point is, it’s a popular well-known area, right by the ocean, which means everybody wants a piece of it, both major highway & billionaire beachfront homes. In fewer words:
Pacific Coast Highway.
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
Could it be for diving decompression?
I’d be more in the thought of using it for vain and superficial reasons vs. legit reasons.
You’ll find Med Spas using them for multi “improve your health, immunity, and skin” holistic crap.
That is what they use them for. So yes.
I guess you could use it for that too? And it’s not like it’s 100% guaranteed that it’s only an HBOT chamber, since I’d assume you could use it with just air instead of more-or-less pure oxygen
Yeah but you would like only use that for emergencies
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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 I was a billionaire I’d shoot myself in the face as I’ve lost my way and should have stopped almost a billion a go.
If you were a billionaire you wouldn’t have to choose. It’s no longer “or,” it’s “and” for everything.
And a personal chef. Not having to cook everyday is a privilege.
If I had a chef they’d hate me.
“Chicken nuggets again sir?”
“Yes! And god help you if the dinosaurs aren’t recognizable again. What the hell are they teaching you up in France? Clearly not teaching about the Jurassic period! I will have your ass deported next time. Get it right!”
They aren’t everywhere, but there are “meal prep” companies that work out of local commercial kitchens and deliver full weeks of meals to your home.
Not as cheap as making it from a scratch, but cheaper than hello fresh and others, and much cheaper than uber eats.
If I were a billionaire, I would have the hyperbaric chamber, but have it powered in the most ostentatious way imaginable. Instead of having a motorized pump to pressurize it, I’m just going to hire a whole bunch of people with bicycle pumps to pressurize the thing for me. I’ll hire like a hundred people, pay them absurdly well for the task, and have a hundred people show up just to perform a simple task that could have been performed by a cheap motor.
Also, my primary mode of transportation will be sedan chair.
See, this is how trickle-down economics are supposed to work!
That was my first thought. For fucks sake pay someone to clean up!
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.
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.
https://baricboost.com/hyperbaric-chamber-cost/
According to this site, might not be too expensive (I was thinking 6 figures at least)
maybe we’re wrongly assuming they use it inside their garage? maybe it’s just being stored but idk
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.
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.
My thoughts didn’t go to diving, but hyperbaric oxygen therapy.
Probably more likely, I didn’t know it was useful for stuff like plastic surgery.
Some people also just use them for purposes that are less clinical. Hyperbaric chambers back in the day were one of those cure-alls that were and are purported to treat all sorts of ailments, increase mental performance, sense of wellbeing, etc. I imagine it’s a mix of real uses and bogus uses, but billionaires love to splurge on that kind of thing.
Time machine. That’s how billionaires get richer, they go back in time and change little things to benefit themselves.
