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[–] 1 point 10 months ago (3 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_man_o%27_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.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    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.

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