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The litter stucker is a pole with a soft flexible rubber suction cup for getting a good seal on the variable to be contacted and lifted .
Inside the pole is a pipe that allows the suction to flow to the cup at the slight hold of a button .
The closer the button control mechanism is to the cup the
better the number of pickups .
A rechargeable canister clips into pole to give the charge . (Specially made on the space station and brought back to us on terra firma :-)
The piping and holes would have to be tiny to allow only fractions of air into canister .
Number of pickups is approx. equals the volume of canister / volume of cup .
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//The piping and holes would have to be tiny to allow only fractions of air into canister //
So you could suck in, say, only oxygen molecules? |
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Someone else proposed something like a can of vacuum recently. Such a thing would run out of suction power so quickly, it's not even worth considering. |
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Put a motor in the can, and keep sucking the air out. Oh, wait, that's a hoover. |
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It would work the first time. |
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//keep sucking//
The canister must be large to be used in this manner. Tanks on a backpack, evacuated by a manual pump, might produce a suitable vacuum. But for items that don't stick to your suction cup you'll also need a litter spike handy. |
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[Coprocephalous] with the right filter .
[DrCurry] nano engineering . Motor weight versus a can of vacuum .
[Amos Kito] you are right . Porous stuff is a failure point . |
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The canister , I dreamed up , would be like an negative aerosol can . They would be made in a factory to produce a very very rarefied space and be used for any purpose . |
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I suppose stucker could go the AA battery way with gecko
foot filament tech .( stick to everything ? ) |
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I suppose I could make a tiny rubber hand on the end of the pole that deforms under the vacuum to grip the item :-) |
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