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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
again, the missing leg would only happens in exceedingly rare case since the ocean is not populated like New Delhi and predators don’t work like in the movies
your numbers are off by probably a factor of 100
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.
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
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!
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
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.
it doesn’t say what part of the sea, just random… so you’ll almost certainly be crushed to death in the first week, considering that most of the ocean is too deep for you to survive 30 seconds.
if it was always floating on the top that would be a good deal… i can hold my breath for 30 seconds so even a storm probably wouldn’t kill me.
Also most of the ocean isn’t teeming with predatory animals.
Vast majority of sea life lives near coastlines - because that is precisely where current disruptions create easily accessible nutrients.
Out in the middle of the ocean there is really very little. Migratory animals moving between destinations mostly.
Also even 30 seconds gives you a fair bit of time even around predatory animals. Seems relatively safe bet for anyone without my luck. There’s a reason I never gamble.
Even with predatory animals may take them 20 seconds to figure out what’s happening…you got cash to burn.
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.
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.
I love how seriously everyone’s taking this! Like “I want to help set up the parameters of the experiment!”
These things matter! ;)
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.
There are many benefits to being a marine biologist.
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.
