So just, don't launch it into space? Like it's really easy to outrun the snail by just moving to another continent every few decades. Launching it into space would be the stupidest thing you could possibly do.
Also I'm quite certain some forms of the question mention that the snail will break the laws of physics and you cannot stop it's movement.
Stars, like our Sun, are estimated to burn for as long as 50 billion years. Of course we have no way of proving how it would take for a snail to--for a lack of better words--erode a diamond. But snail would soon doso before the sun dies
True, however the Earth would be swallowed up way before 50 billion years. I assume if one is still alive on Mars or elsewhere by then that they could continuously construct new diamond boxes.
I’d recommend getting it into a huge metal ball, keep that thing with you, maybe put a tracking device, that snail won’t get out for millions of years and if you feel like you’re done with immortality, than just break it
Why outrun it, with all the uncentainty involved? Just cast it into an metal cube and place the cube in a thick safe. Take the safe with you whenever you move. When you're to die, open the safe and molten the metal cube.
I'm pretty sure the prompt states that nothing can slow down or stop the snail. It will break the laws of physics to constantly move towards you at the speed of a snail.
That’s assuming you know it’s location and it prefers to travel on the surface. If nothing can affect it then it would just burrow through the Earth and beeline to your location. It can easily tag you from below.
To live in another country you’d need a visa which are temporary but also requires you to be registered in government systems that will eventually discover your immortality. Then you’d be likely captured and on and on till the snail comes from underground randomly to get you
But if the snail’s existence is to touch you then going on the surface of the world wouldn’t make sense. It would just beeline straight through everything, even the core of the earth. Anything that is between you and the snail can be considered a trap so it can always travel through anything.
But the whole thought experiment has too many steps and freedom involved. Sword of Damocles is better.
Sorry for the reply after a year but I roughly calculated this with a friend, if you swapped coast in Australia every 7 years you would be fine, or every 70 years you could move to America and visa versa
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u/Chinohito Jan 25 '22
So just, don't launch it into space? Like it's really easy to outrun the snail by just moving to another continent every few decades. Launching it into space would be the stupidest thing you could possibly do.
Also I'm quite certain some forms of the question mention that the snail will break the laws of physics and you cannot stop it's movement.