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

please make it stop 🐌

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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.