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.
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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.
I love how seriously everyone's taking this! Like "I want to help set up the parameters of the experiment!"
These things matter! ;)
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.
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.
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.
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!
Id tread water for 30 minutes a day anywhere in the world with that level of protection.
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?
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There are many benefits to being a marine biologist.
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
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The bends!
People who set challenges like this just don't understand money. $100,000,000 will buy you and everyone in your family a house, a car, food, drink, hobbies, holidays, almost anything you could conceivably want for the rest of your life. And that's even if you blow it all and don't even bother investing. It's an insane amount of money. 30 seconds for five years is 15 hours. That's a pay rate of $6,600,000 an hour. Just to be in the sea.
Nah, these seemingly easy scenarios are telling you something about the author. They have a phobia of deep water, and don’t realize it.
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Is it always at the surface of the ocean? Not at the bottom where the pressure will kill me, or unexpectedly submerged so I breathe water and die? Then yes, yes, yes. I will take those odds and consider it a very reasonable retirement plan, and an incredible hourly wage.
ETA I would think the biggest risk is data loss from so many teleportations. The sea is so big and empty that if it's literally random the odds of appearing inside the wall of a ship or in the mouth of a shark does seem less likely than being mowed down by a car on my way to work (same 30 minutes a day total riding back and forth) for a much bigger payout.
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