You can ship 1 ton/1m3 of cargo via any international air freight company to the other side of the world for less than 10,000 dollars.

(Source: I've done it plenty of times)

A day for pickup and transport to the airport in Sydney, 24 hours for actual transit, a day in customs in LA, a day for a truck to deliver it to that location. 5 business days to get that IBC to your destination in LA, tops.

1000L of water is literally nothing on a global logistics scale.

Single transportable tank would hold more than enough. (A fuel truck, for example can hold up to about 45,000L)

Stick it on a freight aircraft overnight.

Chill for 20 days and line up how I'm gonna spend my easy money.

Is this some silly AI training question? 1000kg is the weight of 10 humans with some luggage for each of them, so transporting it by plane shouldn't cost drastically more than 10 passenger airfares. I mean come on. Plus you have to move it around by truck before and after the plane flight. Again no biggie. Clearing customs, who knows.

IBC tank holds roughly 1000 liters, costs almost nothing and can fit on a truck.

Even at 300 (over paying) you are on your way.

I'm pretty sure you could charter a cargo plane that can carry more than a tonne for a lot less than a million.

That falls into the regular shipping realm. Any shipping company can handle that.

To make it challenging we could say that you're not allowed to use the internet, only phone calls.

Bro, I can ship 1000kg of anything between Sydney and LAX on Quantas Cargo for, at most, $8,000.

That's the upper estimate, too. Might be cheaper.

https://suaidglobal.com/insights/air-freight-cost-per-kg/

You want me to book you something? I'll charge you $508K, and you keep the rest.

I'd call the recipient and ask them to turn on the faucet and explain that I'll send the water through that. That'll be $1000000, thanks.

Any global freight company could do that. Probably don't even have to pay extra for express delivery to make it in time.

Step 1: Dump the water into the Parramatta

Step 2: Fly to Los Angeles

Step 3: Buy an IBC container and fill it from a fresh water source.

Done. The water in the IBC is the same water you left in Sydney. Prove it isn't.

1.000.000$? Just book a private flight. 1.000.000$ is "call the airline" kind of money. Call FedEx or something.

The smallest cargo planes can carry twice what you want in weight.

https://wcscargo.com/air-cargo-plane-capacities/

Fed Ex it. It doesn't cost a million dollars to air mail a metric ton of water. I'll have it there in 3 days.

Isn’t this… how futures and even regular trading works?

In the simplest form, you sell the water in Sydney, buy in Los Angeles with contract criteria specifying what "clean, fresh water" is to you, done.

Water is fungible (or is it non-fungibel)...it's one of those

Pour out the water in Australia and let it be free.

Find a hose in LA and refill a new container.

Nobody will notice the different water.

I'd call GAC or Pentagon (No, not that pentagon) and book the shipping. They're the ones we use at work for these things, as well as larger stuff, and they're pretty fast and costs a lot less that that kind of money.

While they organize the physical shipping, I'd call my logistical superhero of a coworker so we can get all the customs stuff out of the way and processed before arrival.

Once we had to ship four 20ft containers around the world fast, and we ended up booking (via GAC, iirc) an An124. I've been promised that next time we do so, I get to go along.

I give someone 10k to do it for me. He can keep the rest of the 10k.

I wait a little and get a million.

Is this for a Smokie and The Bandit reboot?

As others have said, this is very simple, truck the container to the airport, then put it on a cargo aircraft, fly to LA, truck it to the final destination.

You would even make a large profit.

I know there is a nostupidquestions comm but is there a reallyfuckingstupidquestion comm?

Do I get a million for every metric tonne of water transferred?

It's 12006km from Sydney to Los Angeles as the bird flies. Garden hose is ~$2/m. I'd break even after 25 metric tonnes.

That's ... oddly specific.

I open a sink in Sydney, and do the same in Los Angeles to fill 1000 bottles. Water transfered in a few minutes.

I'd be surprised if you can't just ship it with UPS or FedEx.

I wouldn't trust Australia Post, they can't even ship a box of crockery across the country without it crossing the nullarbor five times.

i think a ship could do it... i think they need just a little bit less than 3 weeks. probably the cheapest option. otherwise airplane ofc. idk what it costs to rent a private airplane for that one single distance.

The only person who could fuck this is up is George Bush: See also, Hurricane Katrina.

Put it on a plane.

why are you asking this?

are you new on Earth?

I would just pay to have it shipped. That’s like four pallets at most.