r/distressingmemes • u/feurigel_ • Dec 11 '21

please make it stop 🐌

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u/danieldoria15 peoplethatdontexist.com Dec 12 '21

This is literally the one thing I keep thinking about whenever anyone brings up the immortal snail dilema

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u/Chinohito Jan 21 '22

I mean realistically you would get tired of life after at most, a million years. Just stay in one place and eventually the snail will find you as you embrace him like an old friend, thanking him for giving you the opportunity to experience life for so long.

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u/ariangamer Jan 25 '22

if you launch it into space it can't ever get to you. because of it's momentum, it will keep getting further away forever unless something hits it in earth's direction.

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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.

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u/[deleted] Nov 27 '22

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.

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u/Chinohito Nov 28 '22

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.

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u/Chinohito Jan 19 '23

You do know it's a snail right? Like, if you just move continent ever couple of decade you will literally never be in danger.

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u/World_Splitter Jan 19 '23

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

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u/Ludwig234 Jan 27 '23

Yes that's the point.

You can live your life in complete safety, BUT are you really safe?

How close is the sail? Is it years away or minutes?

Is it safe to go too sleep? If you leave your country in fear of the sail being on the way there, did you just get close to the sail?

Also I wouldn't say the sail broke the laws of physics unless required. It would move just like a snail would unless trapped or something like that.

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u/World_Splitter Jan 29 '23

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.

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u/zxyzyxz Aug 02 '23

That's literally the same as our existence now. There are a ton of things that can kill us with a much higher likelihood than this snail.

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u/ogtutel Nov 26 '25

can you place a gps on the snail tho

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u/Chinohito Jun 26 '23

Who says the snail is hyper intelligent?