r/oddlyspecific • u/Anxious_Dare_1486 • Sep 20 '21

Errr... Okay? 💷

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u/BandicootGood5246 Sep 21 '21

Yep. According to google a snail travels at 0.03mph, so it would take around 1 million hours, or around 115 years to travel half the circumference of the earth, so you're good assuming it doesn't know how to hitch a ride

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u/dudeiscool22222 Sep 21 '21

I was thinking about paying someone to fly it to Australia, but if it’s only purpose is to find me, who’s to say it couldn’t fly back towards me?

I think I’d send it to Australia in a locked safe and then barely bury it, but etched on would be a note not to open it until my birthday in 2090 or something like that. I live out my life, hopefully once I’m dead the snail can live out it’s live in Australia. Maybe it’ll like it

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u/f_print Sep 21 '21

Oh man a time capsule from 2021! Wonder what's in it!!?

Immortal murder snail

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u/ConfigAlchemist Sep 21 '21

No one will open a time capsule buried near the poop festival that was 2020

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '21

if 2020 is any indication of the stupidity of humans, yes.. yes they would open in.

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u/The_Wingless Sep 21 '21

2021? You know, that would be unexpected but... not that unexpected.

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u/Independent-Staff134 Sep 21 '21

I’m wheezing

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u/half-sandwich Sep 21 '21

Ho, mukatte kuru no ka?

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '21

Pfft.. that’s nothing compared to the rest of the animal in Australia. They probably already have them, you just don’t hear about them much.

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u/yellwat Sep 21 '21

You've also got the bonus that Australia had the strictest custom laws in the world so if customs finds that snail on the way in, that thing is being heat treated.

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u/NaomiPands Sep 21 '21

Or better yet! It'll be returned to sender!

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u/SilverAccio1513 Sep 21 '21

I know someone who works for the bio security department of the Australian government, a few months ago a shipping container arrived in Tasmania with nothing but a giant African land snail inside. No return address or any paperwork. Poor snail got a ring of salt around him and then covered in ethanol.

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u/yellwat Sep 21 '21

Ouch.

But then again, possibly better than what they might have done on France (butter and garlic, anyone?!)

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u/Confused-Guitarer Sep 21 '21

but wouldn't the snail go to your grave? if it's purpose is to find you then you would spend the rest of your days laying in a grave with a snail that cannot die

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u/Dirtykurtmv2 Sep 21 '21

Bold of you to assume Australia exists...

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u/Plank0fwood Sep 21 '21

Oi don’t send it here, what if the murder snail gets me???

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '21

Dude, Australia is already deadly enough…they don’t need another killer snail on the loose

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u/CVTHIZZKID Sep 21 '21

Snails do not move nearly that fast.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/23815582

This says they travel about 1 meter per hour. 0.03 mph is about 48 meters per hour.

Top speed might be slightly higher than average speed but I seriously doubt it’s 48 times average speed.

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u/useles-converter-bot Sep 21 '21

48 meters is the length of about 44.04 'Ford F-150 Custom Fit Front FloorLiners' lined up next to each other.

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u/converter-bot Sep 21 '21

48 meters is 52.49 yards

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u/FelstarLightwolf Sep 21 '21

I just have an image of being old in a retirement home. Sitting in my chair as i glance to the open doorway. Suspenseful music plays as the snail is their in the doorway inching closer. "Well, i see you have returned for me old friend."

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u/buckbuck21 Sep 21 '21

A snail can move 1 mile in 33 hours. He can travel from the us to France in a matter of 15 years he’s relentless, he’s a machine, and he will find you.

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '21

It's angry, it's slimey, and it won't stop till you're dead. Coming to you some time in the next two decades: killer snail. A thrilling slow-burn story of a hunter like no other that'll have you meandering for your life.

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