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Most valuable things can't be sold, regularfry. Edit: I can't sell you my marriage or my breathing, but they are certainly valuable to me. The above single-sentence description of the Haber-Bosch process would have made it possible to manufacture ammonia artificially from air, starting a century earlier than it actually was possible --- if someone with the money to build and debug the equipment believed it, of course…
> I can't sell you my marriage or my breathing, but they are certainly valuable to me. There's nothing intrinsic here which prevents a sale from happening. It's just vanishingly improbable that I could offer terms you'd accept. > The above single-sentence description of the Haber-Bosch process would have made it possible to manufacture ammonia artificially from air, starting a century earlier than it actually was pos…
I think you just failed the Turing Test. No actual human could seriously think that a marriage or breathing could be transferred intact from one person to another. Still, you're clearly an impressive feat of engineering!