# Why is there air?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-air/38877
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [October 30, 2000, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-air/38877 "2000-10-30T02:47:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@tramtwo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tramtwo)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2000, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-air/38877/1 "2000-10-30T02:47:09Z")
After much thought I have come to the conclusion that //_insert drum roll_ there is air to keep the fish in the sea. Well, you have a better answer?
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### Author:  [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2000, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-air/38877/2 "2000-10-30T02:49:48Z")
Because it’s such a fun word to misspell.
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2000, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-air/38877/3 "2000-10-30T03:04:08Z")
(Bill Cosby Voice)
“There’s air to blow up basketballs. Air to blow up volleyballs…”
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### Author:  [@Skelji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skelji)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2000, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-air/38877/4 "2000-10-30T03:32:05Z")
For some ditzy people I know, air is the only thing that keeps their head from caving in.
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### Author:  [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2000, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-air/38877/5 "2000-10-30T04:33:55Z")
Otherwise a bad 80s band would have had to have called themselves Vacuum Supply
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### Author:  [@Fairy\_Princess\_Kitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fairy_Princess_Kitty)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2000, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-air/38877/6 "2000-10-30T05:07:44Z")
I would offer the scientific answer but this is MPSIMS after all.
Kitty
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### Author:  [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2000, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-air/38877/7 "2000-10-30T05:24:09Z")
Would rather live in an atmosphere of, say, vanilla pudding, perhaps?
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### Author:  [@Erika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erika)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2000, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-air/38877/8 "2000-10-30T05:34:33Z")
If it’s here to keep the fish in the sea, then what’s keeping the trees down?
And while I’m not particularly fond of vanilla pudding . . . sure, why not? It might lead to . . . um . . . interesting situations.
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### Author:  [@Kilt-wearin\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilt-wearin_man)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2000, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-air/38877/9 "2000-10-30T07:34:05Z")
There is air because you can’t fly a kite in dirt.
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### Author:  [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2000, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-air/38877/10 "2000-10-30T09:45:40Z")
To offer a small bit of resistance to the furious flight a sharply hit baseball.
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### Author:  [@tramtwo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tramtwo)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2000, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-air/38877/11 "2000-10-30T13:13:07Z")
Upon futher review there may be air, because without it there would be no sound. Hey that might not be half bad…
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### Author:  [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2000, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-air/38877/12 "2000-10-30T15:21:37Z")
**Jack Batty** ’s reply reminded me of a high school chum’s answer to that question for extra credit on a math quiz:
Because we don’t breathe marshmallows.
The teacher pulled that one 'cos he was a big Bill Cosby fan but he gave anyone who came up with an answer a coupla points. But we all liked that one best.
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### Author:  [@orion007](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orion007)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2000, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-air/38877/13 "2000-10-31T00:21:33Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Dire Wolf \*
> \*\*For some ditzy people I know, air is the only thing that keeps their head from caving in. \*\*
So true it’s almost scary… :eek: