The real question is how does pressure factor in? I don’t care what kind of preparations you make. If you end up at the bottom of the Mariana trench you won’t survive 30 seconds. You just go from biology to physics instantaneously.
The ocean is BIG. Chance of something big enough to be interested in you discovering you and deciding to eat you in 30 seconds is minuscule.
Sharks aren’t mindless chomping machines.
Cthulhu might be problematic, though.
Sorry, what’s the catch?
I only see upside.
Also… 30 seconds…
Even without a tummo breathing start, I could probably hold my breath that long… wouldn’t even need to tread water… just take a breath and dive. n_n
I don’t think you can drown in 30 seconds?
So, just don’t get eaten. How hard can it be?
Don’t get eaten once, probably pretty easy. But don’t get eaten just shy of 2000 days in a row? Well… I’ll just say that’s probably not trivial.
Considering i could also get hit by a bus, cancer, random violence, or accident, I still would take the chance.
As would I. With all that money I feel like there’s some pretty easy damage mitigation steps you could take as well to ensure your safety.
you’d need to be spotted, identified as food, attacked and completely killed in 30 seconds… the odds of that are minuscule
Teleporting back doesn’t restore a missing leg and save me when I arrive back home dry, but bleeding out. So you only need to be mortally wounded.
And with 1825 different random teleportations, there’s certainly a non-zero chance of being dropped into the middle of an active shark hunt/feeding frenzy, or directly in front of a 200,000 ton shipping container vessel with 4 enormous 30 foot propellers waiting to liquify your body.
If your odds per teleportation are a 0.01% chance, across 1825 incidents over 5 years that’s an 18% chance of death.
the ocean is fucking huge. odds of that not happening are way better than odds of me dying biking over to the grocery store (thanks, all you drivers who completely ignore the cyclist and pedestrian crossing, your stop line at a red light, the giant NO RIGHT TURN ON RED sign, and the people obviously crossing it)
Actually it’ll only be about 15 hours. 365 days x 5 years, then add 1 for the leap year, then x 30 to figure out how many seconds, ÷ 60 for minutes and again for hours.
Id tread water for 30 minutes a day anywhere in the world with that level of protection.
Take the money. Use all 50 skip days up front. Consult lawyers/financial people to set friends and family up for life. Let the ocean take me on day 51.
Absolutely I would take this deal.
I thoroughly enjoyed swimming in the open ocean the few times I’ve had a chance to and would love to do it again. I’m sure there would be some days that would be quite frightening, but I’ll bet there would be a bunch of days that I would be disappointed with only 30 seconds.
As mentioned by a few, I’m assuming this means the surface of the ocean and not random depths, which would mean instant death at some point and would make the deal completely un-survivable.
I love how seriously everyone’s taking this! Like “I want to help set up the parameters of the experiment!”
These things matter! ;)
If I’ve got 70 years left to live that works out to effectively $120,000 a month for the rest of my life. The worst case is I get eaten and my family is set up for life. People take worse odds all the time for a lot less.
Spend a little over 15 hours in the ocean for 100 million, spread out over 5 years? Yeah I think I can handle that. I’d have to get better at swimming though. Storms would be scary, and honestly the biggest threat would be waste dumps and ships, but I think I could take that risk. It seems to be that you’d be at the surface so I’d want clarification on that one.
Sounds like a good alarm clock.
Can I choose a different time on weekends and holidays?
Does it take daylight savings into account?
It says I come back dry… does it clean me too? Can it replace a shower, is what I’m getting at…?
Oh I like the way you think, that’s brilliant!
There are many benefits to being a marine biologist.
30 seconds a day for only 5 years… That’s 912.5 minutes, or just over 15 hours. Less than a typical work week to tread water for a few seconds.
Can I bring a camera?
What about the sharks though? Sounds like there is a chance you might land somewhere you’re eaten.
There’s less than 100 shark attacks a year, world wide. In any given year there’s 10’s of thousands of deaths by car accidents just in the US. So, I’d say it’s probably safer 30 seconds in some water with sharks, than 30 seconds on any given highway with people.
Sharks would be wary of such large and unfamiliar prey appearing so suddenly. Unless you’re bleeding, they will probably only circle you for the 30 seconds, prefering you tired out instead of able to defend yourself.
What about landing in a group of man o’wars?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_man_o'_war#Venom
I’d say it’s statistically unlikely you’d run into them, given just how much water there is on earth. And even if you did, you’re going to have 30 seconds of a bad time. Sure, according to the article you could have 3 hours of pain. So a warm bubble bath treatment. Death is only found in extreme cases.
I’ve been in 2 car accidents coming from or going to work… and I can tell you I’m never going to earn anywhere close to $100,000,000. Work has demanded I drive through dangerous blizzard conditions many times because the business doesn’t stop even though it’s not safe to travel.
I’ll absolutely risk maybe seeing a man o’war. Because on paper, it appears to be less dangerous (since I’ll be teleported away from it 30 seconds after) than any 9-5 job.
So next problem then, what if you’re dropped into a rough storm. The sort that can make oil tankers rock. Fair chance you would drown in that.
It’s 30 seconds. Bad storm, I can hold my breath and hope for the best, for 30 seconds. An oil tanker is large so the waves and wind have more to push on, and it’s staying there longer than 30 seconds. That’s the part you keep missing, you’re there for only 30 seconds. There’s tons of ships that go threw storms just fine. Also you get 50 skip days, so if you know there’s a bad tropical storm somewhere and you don’t want to risk it, just skip it. But even if there’s a hurricane going over Florida, statistically you’re just going to end up in the Pacific ocean somewhere since that’s the largest body of water. The pacific is ~30% of the earths surface. It’s got more surface area than Mars.
I have understood the 30 seconds part fine. I am looking at it from the point of view that you’re transported instantly and so could be taken by surprise when it occurs, you only need to have a wave crash on you, take in a mouthful of water and you would be in real trouble if get spun out.
There is rough weather out at sea in some part of the world most weeks, given you don’t know where you could be put on the globe then you would have to know you’re going to be dropped into a location with a storm to know to use your skip day otherwise you would be chewing through them pretty quickly.
It’ll be a routine like a gym that you will start to miss it once the 5 year is up (the thermal suit and auto drying are crazy good boons to make this way less unpleasant than it could be).
yeah this is all win. people don’t realize how empty the sea is all over. 5 years? I’d bring a camera!
as long as i spawn on the surface then it’s fine.
if the locations are random, chances are it’ll be in the middle of the ocean/sea, far away from any dangerous cliffs.
and as I get the money upfront, if I die, my loved ones will get it, so it isn’t that bad
I think it’s implied that the money goes away if you don’t fulfill the 5 years “owed”. Either that or your dead body spends a lot of time at sea.
more importantly is what court enforces those contacts so you can consult a lawyer
If you’re a muslim then Suleiman or his modern equivalent (King Charles?) and Allah, if you’re not even abrahamic then genies and demons are local deities with a society of their own which still adhere to the laws laid down by heaven (in this case Caananite High God El).
lol. imagine going to king Charles for a dispute you have with your Ginnie
And then he summons the wind to carry you home on a carpet.
the royal flatulence
