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I was relieved when the article said the esophagus was too small to actually be swallowed. Like what do you do if a whale actually swallows you, try to crawl out the other end? Like the Shawshank Redemption but way worse
Try to make it vomit I guess. You’d suffocate long before you get passed through.
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He is saying his "luck" skill is maxed out, so he is +10 while others could be having a real -10 of it.
I’ve liked the interpretation that high luck isn’t necessarily good. It just means highly improbable events happen to you more likely...
I like to hope that cetaceans are sentient. Given that, I can imagine the poor whale being completely grossed out by whatever it just got in its mouth and tried to spit it out as fast as possible. I've definitely had that experience before.
There are a lot of sentient animals, including all mammals that I'm aware of.
"Ten years ago, while traveling in Costa Rica, he was a passenger in a small plane that crashed in the jungle, killing the pilot, co-pilot and a passenger. Packard sustained multiple serious injuries to his abdomen and upper body. The rescuers that found the remaining five passengers after two nights in the jungle said they wouldn’t have survived another night." This guy's luck is clearly maxed out. What a crazy pair…
I mean if you swim in whale's proximity and fly in sketch planes, crazy shit is bound to happen to you. The real tragedy is the stories there is no one left to tell. As always true wisdom is found in country songs: If the Phone Don't Ring, You'll Know It's Me -Rusty Ford -- My Truck, My Dog, and You
After the worst day of meetings, after not being to track down the most elusive bug, at the end of that day, I absolutely do not have to worry about being eaten whole. So I guess there are worse jobs.
Well, unless you’re a developer at a certain theme park featuring genetically engineered creatures…
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I mean if you swim in whale's proximity and fly in sketch planes, crazy shit is bound to happen to you. The real tragedy is the stories there is no one left to tell. As always true wisdom is found in country songs: If the Phone Don't Ring, You'll Know It's Me -Rusty Ford -- My Truck, My Dog, and You
Swimming near whales isn’t unsafe at all. They’re not particularly aggressive, a lone human is too small to worry about, and we operate on completely different sections of the food chain. This was more akin to getting stepped on by a giraffe that didn’t see you there. Total accident.
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Try to make it vomit I guess. You’d suffocate long before you get passed through.
The guy was diving, so it’s possible he had an oxygen tank. My guess is that in that case you’re even less likely to go through the animal though.
I wonder what the whale felt. Would it be swimming around telling its disgusted friends a cetacean equivalent of: "So I was just picking up strawberries in the backyard and all of a sudden this giant winged cockroach appears out of nowhere and before I know it that goddamn thing is in my mouth !!! Dammit I can still taste it. It's something you can't forget..."
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I mean if you swim in whale's proximity and fly in sketch planes, crazy shit is bound to happen to you. The real tragedy is the stories there is no one left to tell. As always true wisdom is found in country songs: If the Phone Don't Ring, You'll Know It's Me -Rusty Ford -- My Truck, My Dog, and You
This is just an impressive level of victim blaming. Swallowed by a whale? Shouldn't have been in the ocean. It's bound to happen.
I also agree that there is a level of personal responsibility that can’t be abstracted away to just the perpetrators
And finally, sometimes people just get eaten