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This guy is a prime example of not being in contact with reality. I am not against people trying new things, but you better understand the medium you are trying to accomplish something through. This documentary https://youtu.be/eTkj-e82RQk goes over his first attempts to go to Bermuda. It's obvious that he does not understand the sea at all. For his first attempt he didn't have food or even GPS to know where he was g…
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to be fair, it looks like he's iterating: > It was equipped with a satellite phone, a water filtration system, a solar array, neoprene wet suits and a stockpile of granola and ramen noodles for when he embarked from St. Augustine on Friday for what he expected would be a three-week trip.
At about 1k nautical miles between NYC and Miami he'd need to do ~50 nm a day to make it a 3-week trip. That's two marathons per day, a fair stretch even if he managed to make the same propulsive efficiency with his paddle wheel thingy as he would on land.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
to be fair, it looks like he's iterating: > It was equipped with a satellite phone, a water filtration system, a solar array, neoprene wet suits and a stockpile of granola and ramen noodles for when he embarked from St. Augustine on Friday for what he expected would be a three-week trip.
At about 1k nautical miles between NYC and Miami he'd need to do ~50 nm a day to make it a 3-week trip. That's two marathons per day, a fair stretch even if he managed to make the same propulsive efficiency with his paddle wheel thingy as he would on land.
The gulf stream moves at about 5 miles per hour.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
At about 1k nautical miles between NYC and Miami he'd need to do ~50 nm a day to make it a 3-week trip. That's two marathons per day, a fair stretch even if he managed to make the same propulsive efficiency with his paddle wheel thingy as he would on land.
If he had gotten a bit farther out the Gulf Stream would have picked him up and given him a big speed boost so a little over 3 weeks doesn’t sound unreasonable
And of course, the further out you go to try and pick up the gulf stream, the further you have to go to get back to shore.
This guy is a prime example of not being in contact with reality. I am not against people trying new things, but you better understand the medium you are trying to accomplish something through. This documentary https://youtu.be/eTkj-e82RQk goes over his first attempts to go to Bermuda. It's obvious that he does not understand the sea at all. For his first attempt he didn't have food or even GPS to know where he was g…
I’d cut the guy some slack. He’s clearly invested in this journey, literally spending thousands of dollars and decades of his own time. Personally, I think he should be free to do something reckless if it’s only his life at stake. After all, stores sell paint and there isn’t a law against drinking the stuff. It sounds like the only thing he needs to complete the trip is an escort vessel in case the trip goes poorly.…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
to be fair, it looks like he's iterating: > It was equipped with a satellite phone, a water filtration system, a solar array, neoprene wet suits and a stockpile of granola and ramen noodles for when he embarked from St. Augustine on Friday for what he expected would be a three-week trip.
> a stockpile of granola and ramen noodles Ridiculousness aside, are these good choices? I'm inclined to think not. Ramen is a good ratio of calories per dollar, but what he really needs are nutrient dense foods, probably with a lot of protein given how physically difficult this is likely to be. I would think dehydrated meat or something.
The Keto crowd, they tend to eat nuts.
The rest, eat high carbs foods, think bananas, oats, gummies.
Both of them need a huge amount of fuel. A marathon burns about 2,500 calories from exercise alone, for the average person their TDEE is about 2000. So 4,500 calories a day to break even, without taking into account the heat.
At 4.5K calories, that's 94.5K calories for 3 weeks. The average granola bar is 132 calories, let's pretend he chose a nutrient dense one for 150. That's 630 granola bars. It's not impossible, but not ideal.
You also need to deal with mineral deficiencies for 3 weeks worth of travel. Sodium and Potassium are both needed for intense exercise, which two marathons a day definitely counts.
Like I said, he has as crazy idea, but he is not in touch with reality.
Dehydrated meat would probably be good....now I wonder how he goes to the bathroom.
This guy is a prime example of not being in contact with reality. I am not against people trying new things, but you better understand the medium you are trying to accomplish something through. This documentary https://youtu.be/eTkj-e82RQk goes over his first attempts to go to Bermuda. It's obvious that he does not understand the sea at all. For his first attempt he didn't have food or even GPS to know where he was g…
I’d cut the guy some slack. He’s clearly invested in this journey, literally spending thousands of dollars and decades of his own time. Personally, I think he should be free to do something reckless if it’s only his life at stake. After all, stores sell paint and there isn’t a law against drinking the stuff. It sounds like the only thing he needs to complete the trip is an escort vessel in case the trip goes poorly.…
It's never only the one guy. There's rescue people and equipment, taking their time from other rescue work and possibly putting their lives in danger. And tax dollars.
This guy is a prime example of not being in contact with reality. I am not against people trying new things, but you better understand the medium you are trying to accomplish something through. This documentary https://youtu.be/eTkj-e82RQk goes over his first attempts to go to Bermuda. It's obvious that he does not understand the sea at all. For his first attempt he didn't have food or even GPS to know where he was g…
This guy is simply not doing appropriate levels of prior art/background information/competitive research before embarking on a project.
At some level, that's good, because for something that's not been done yet research can be interpreted to suggest it can't be done. But yeah, he takes it much too far.
This guy is a prime example of not being in contact with reality. I am not against people trying new things, but you better understand the medium you are trying to accomplish something through. This documentary https://youtu.be/eTkj-e82RQk goes over his first attempts to go to Bermuda. It's obvious that he does not understand the sea at all. For his first attempt he didn't have food or even GPS to know where he was g…
This guy is a prime example of not being in contact with reality. I am not against people trying new things, but you better understand the medium you are trying to accomplish something through. This documentary https://youtu.be/eTkj-e82RQk goes over his first attempts to go to Bermuda. It's obvious that he does not understand the sea at all. For his first attempt he didn't have food or even GPS to know where he was g…
Is it moral to let this guy kill himself this way if he insists on it?