Would you rather take 5 Million or have a snail chase you for the rest of your life and if it touches you have die a horribl

Snails wrote:

Title says it all.

Take the money and live with the fact that there is a snail trying to touch you for the rest of your life and if it does you die a horrible death. Or not take the money.

The snail:

normal size and appearance and land speed

can't be killed

can't be moved or stopped

it's within 500 square mile radius of you upon taking the money

You:

Every time you move it's still starts within a 500 square mile radius of you. It could be closer than you think.

Discus.

I would take the money and wear a salt suit and or live with a saltwater moat surrounding the castle.

Wow this is a good one, going to bring this up during game night tonight with the fam.

Thanks and cheers!

But what if it starts within your castle? Wait, how would you have a castle before it starts? And if you have a salt suit couldn't it just wait for you near the shower?

It would get expensive to live like that. If you saw the snail you'd want to move to the outskirts of the radius and track it with surveillance and move again. Keeping in the 500 square mile radius would be best. Having an RV would work. You could be an ultrarunner maybe. With a support team to tell you where it is.

So if I find it I can't put it in a box?

If I cross an ocean it'll just teleport somewhere and continue to follow me?

Ok let's math this out:

500 square miles is a circle with a 12.6 mile radius.

A garden snail can travel 0.029mph according to google.

So over the course of 24 hours it can travel 0.7 miles.

Let's say I reset each day, and it starts at some random place within that circle. What are the odds it starts within 0.7 miles? It's just 0.7^2*pi/500 = 0.003, or 0.3%. That's roughly once a year.

Honestly, nah not worth it. $5 million isn't really enough money to buy my way out of the problem. For $100 million maybe. With that mount of money I'd just get a couple of houses in different places with a bed in the middle of a very large room surrounded by motion sensors and the property (and my cars) would be surrounded by motion sensors too, so at least I'd be alerted to the damn thing so I could move when it got close. $5 million is enough to get a large house in a big city and have enough left over to live off of it, but not enough that it would really change my lifestyle.

There's always the possibility of getting snuck up on when I'm sitting in the grass or something, but I don't really like sitting in the grass in the first place so it's not a huge loss.

The top speed of a snail is 0.029 mph. 500 miles would be covered in 718 days, or around two years. So, you have to move every 1-2 years.

Snails wrote:

Title says it all.

Take the money and live with the fact that there is a snail trying to touch you for the rest of your life and if it does you die a horrible death. Or not take the money.

The title says that you take the money or have the snail chase you. If I had to choose between those two things, I would definitely take the money over the snail.

David S wrote:

A garden snail can travel 0.029mph according to google.

Looks like that is a decimal point error that has been perpetuated. Typical is snail speed is 1 mm/s, or 0.002 mph, and a record that is often cited for a snail racing champion is 13 inches in 2 minutes 20 seconds, which works out to 2.3 mm/s or 0.0053 mph, or about twice as fast as the typical speed. The OP said usual snail speed, so go with the 0.002 mph.

or or and? wrote:

Snails wrote:

Title says it all.

Take the money and live with the fact that there is a snail trying to touch you for the rest of your life and if it does you die a horrible death. Or not take the money.

The title says that you take the money or have the snail chase you. If I had to choose between those two things, I would definitely take the money over the snail.

5 Million AND have a snail chase you..

I'd do it. I would take the money and actively trade cryptocurrency until I had enough to really protect myself from the snail, and then go from there.

+1

or or and? wrote:

Snails wrote:

Title says it all.

Take the money and live with the fact that there is a snail trying to touch you for the rest of your life and if it does you die a horrible death. Or not take the money.

The title says that you take the money or have the snail chase you. If I had to choose between those two things, I would definitely take the money over the snail.

Yeah. Thread is over. Lets start another one:

Would you rather be with the person you love forever, but you always have to wear a shirt made out of their pubes, or be alone for the rest of your life, but you get to wear whatever you want?

No, this is the best stupid thread in a very long time. The OP corrected the title mistake in the actual post, except that there is no such thing as a 500 square mile radius. Radius is a scalar value.

The really tricky thing here is that every time you move, the snail apparently starts at some random spot within whatever radius. Sooner or later it's inevitable that it will appear only a few centimeters away and then overtake you before you move again.

The best way to deal with this would be to hire a bodyguard to watch out for the snail, taking care to check your immediate vicinity every time you move, especially while you're sleeping. That would cost a lot of money, no doubt, but there's people who would do it for about 20 grand a year. So $1 mil for security. It's workable.

I would stay in Mo's room from Geb's hotel. The snail is sure to go missing.

Yes, that's the problem.

Do you mean 'when you move' when the snail starts within a 500 mile radius, when you move house? Not just when you move as in physically move location?

If every time you move location the snail restarts somewhere within the 500 mile radius, I wouldn't take the money, because you'd never know where it was.

If the snail only resets when you move house, then yes, I might consider it, because you could set up a snail proof house (like something with a moat), you still would never really know where the snail was though which would be horrible.

Unless you mean by can't be stopped that it would have powers to just carry on travelling through walls

track chick wrote:

you could set up a snail proof house (like something with a moat)

you're not thinking like a snail. Leaves often spontaneously float across a moat. The snail will just crawl onto a leaf at the outer edge and wait for it to float across.

About the only way for sure to evade the snail is to take to the air and stay there. But that will eventually cost way more than 5 million.

Basically the snail would be teleporting each time you move so you will likely run into it by accident if it appears in front of you rather than it coming up to you and catching you. So it wouldn't matter how fast you are. You could be Bekele but if you start running the snail could literally teleport in front of your path and you wouldn't have time to react by dodging out of the way. Personally I would take the 5 million anyway. I would just move into Bekele's hotel and stay forever in the penthouse and I could afford all the room service I want. If the snail catches me at least I will die happy(and hopefully in Bekele's arms).

Defining “when you move” is essential. If it means when you make a motion—like with every step, every fidget in your sleep, every thrust while copulating it could appear beside you—then hell no. If it means every time you pack up your possessions and move residences, and the qualifier is to eliminate just moving across the globe and being done with it—then we got ourselves a question. Probably the best way to define it would be every time you move beyond the most recently established 12.6 mi. radius, the snail reappears somewhere within your new 12.6mi. radius. In that case I’d take the money I think. We never knew when we’re gonna die anyway.

I dont see why you wouldnt want the thrill and life adventure of being chased by a shelled slug.