The critical thing is that you get to choose the time. So you simply schedule it for just before you get in the shower every day.
Close your eyes and hold your breath, quick 30 seconds plunge, return to find yourself in the shower so everything gets washed away. There are people with too much money, who’d pay for that kind of thing. Much of the ocean is completely empty anyway.
Or (and this is a bit dark) you donate 49.5 million to charity, take the 50 skip days immediately, have a very nice holiday with the 500k, then kill yourself on day 51 safe in the knowledge you’ve left a lasting legacy and done more to help others than most could ever hope to. Probably be able to cram a better life in those 50 days than many will be able to fit in 50 years too.
Into a random part of the ocean, you say?
Does into include the bottom of the Mariana Trench, perhaps?
If so… my answer is nope.
My immediate thoughts also. This why you have lawyers proofread things (even if in this case one doesn’t need to be a lawyer to catch this).
Thinking about some more.
Yeah, you just need more “What if?” people to proofread it.
Random part of the ocean, including crushing depth? This needs some clarification.
they seem to imply that you have appropriate equipment for the environment that you’re teleported to. but, yeah, before signing that shit…
Nah, I rather just sit on the couch and not be bothered.
Sounds kind of easy with the thermal suit involved
Even without it, you can survive 30 seconds in the biting cold easily.
Honestly seeing a new part of the sea every day could be fun.
Hmm, flat and wet today. Cool.
Wow, flat and wet again.
Flat and wet.
A little choppy and also wet.
Flat and wet again.
Is that land in the distance!?! Nope, floating bird.
Flat. Wet.
I could handle that for 30 seconds a day.
I finally participated in weekly (more or less) winter bathing last year, and even if I stopped, it still was an interesting experience. And I wasn’t even paid.
The coldest was 2.5C water and -8C air, and it was painful. Anything over 6 is more or less manageable. And you get a “ohhh, the water is goood” perk for the summer. I mean, for days when water is not actually good, but you’ve had worse so you enjoy it:)
100%. I’ll take my chances with the mostly empty ocean for a few years over dealing with capitalism trying to kill me for 40+ more years for the crime of being poor.
Compromise. I’ll take 50 million and we skip the ocean. Make it a bathtub.
I love how seriously everyone’s taking this! Like “I want to help set up the parameters of the experiment!”
These things matter! ;)
30s per day of mild-to-moderate discomfort for 5 years, or working an average of 6 hours per day for virtually my entire life.
This was clearly written by someone with an intense and irrational fear of the sea. Nothing’s doing shit to you in 30 seconds. Most creatures wouldn’t even register your presence quickly enough to even think about doing anything.
Nods. Don’t forget you get 50 skip days. 50. I’d burn a couple of those if I was in the middle of something at end up with like 47 left.
I like swimming in the middle of nowhere. 30 seconds wouldn’t be enough for the absolute tranquility…I mean…if you weren’t in the middle of a storm, which would be also fine for 30 seconds.
I mean, it would be extremely possible to be exceedingly uncomfortable to dangerous.
You could end up in the middle of a group of jellyfish, on a shoreline with heavy waves crashing you against rocks, in glacial Antarctic waters, on top of barnacle-covered rocks cutting your feet, in front of a ship barreling down upon you, in an oil spill… the entire premise is that it’s random. Many teleports would be safe, but any might not be.
I personally think the stress over not knowing and having to do it every day and trying to keep it secret too would be way worse for me than just working.
You probably get used to it over time though.
I’ve survived far worse.
There are so many ways you can die in less than 30s in the ocean. And that’s just on the surface. The offer is “into the ocean”.
And most creatures are near shore or too deep to matter.
Especially the surface of the open ocean. There’s little out there compared to near land. And even if you happened to pop near a shark feeding frenzy, for 30 seconds hold your breath, let yourself sink if that happens, and just don’t move at all.
As written it’s just five years 365 times. The odds are very good for survival. To make it more questionable, have the owed time be five years total in your life of 30 seconds accumulated. Still the same factors apply, 30 seconds isn’t a life risk. Add in the choice of extending any of these to longer than 30 seconds before the pop to use up the time. Now survival becomes questionable if you gamble too much or at the wrong time.
To make it more questionable, have the owed time be five years total in your life of 30 seconds accumulated.
Unless my math is wrong, which is super possible cuz I’m not particularly skilled with math, this isn’t possible. I just looked up seconds in a day and did a couple quick divisions (86,400 seconds in a day, divide by 30 for the number of swims, then divide by 365 for number of years it would take). So might be way off.
A single day in that arrangement appears to take almost 8 (7.89) years of daily 30-second swims. You’d never reach 5 years, it would just be a permanent condition of your life at that point. You might accumulate an entire fortnite before you die if you start very young (14 days would be 110.5 yrs).
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Take it. No question. Trades every other insecurity for just one somewhat predictable event.
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.
Id tread water for 30 minutes a day anywhere in the world with that level of protection.
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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.
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
