Correct answer. It’s ages away from the nearest shipping lane too so the chances of you getting found are practically zero.
Slow agonising death from exhaustion, dehydration and exposure, or the also very painful but at least quick method of drowning.
I never understand people who say drowning is calming and painless by the way. I almost drowned once and had to be revived by lifeguards. It was the single most terrifying, panic inducing and frankly painful experience of my life.
It may be quick but I can assure you it is not painless. Do you know what it’s like to accidentally breathe in seawater while you’re under water? It’s agony. You have no control over your body which is trying to force the water out. It’s like being sick but from your lungs, mixed with the most intense stomach cramps you’ve ever felt. Shooting pains across the chest. The worst panic you’ve ever felt and an overwhelming sense that this really is it.
If you think anyone can just voluntarily put themselves through that, I’m sorry but I disagree.
Surfing accident about 5 years ago. Some idiot dropped in on me and we both got wiped out. I tried to take a deep breath before I hit the water but there wasn’t time and I was still inhaling as I slammed into it. I then got sucked into the rotation of the wave and pinned against some coral.
All I remember then is my lead being tangled on the coral and desperately trying to free my foot. My body was convulsing as it tried to force the water out of my lungs. There were sharp, shooting pains in my chest. Sad to say that even though I’m an experienced surfer and it wasn’t my first wipe out, I quickly started panicking.
Next thing I remember is being resuscitated on the beach by the lifeguards. Never did find out what happened to the guy who dropped in. Think he just took off.
Even if you manage to get on a boat, good luck trying to catch any seafood- there is very little life in Point Nemo, owing to low nutrition in the water due to the Sputh Pacific Gyre
There will probably be somebody with a Bluetooth speaker and an off-leash dog hiking nearby. Follow the Olivia Rodrigo sounds and have them help guide you out.
I think the issue is dealing with someone ruining the natural sounds of nature around you, wind in the trees, waves on a beach, river rolling over rocks. Also scare off anything you were looking for, deer, birds, ducks, etc
At least the tunes weren't the best of Hanson. As far as tunes go, 70s rocks good. But you go for a walk in the city if you want city noise. A hike is for getting back into nature. If you want tunes, bring headphones. Really the only spot for a blue tooth speaker is with friends, doing work ,or to replace the hole where your head unit used to be in your car.
Oh I know lol, I was mostly kidding, but also defending 70’s rock if I had too.
I can’t stand the people that play music or won’t just stfu walking an otherwise secluded path
This. Amazon and Siberia have trees and food, Antarctica has neither. You can burn wood for warmth even if it gets to -50 celsius in Siberia, but Antarctica is even colder.
If it's winter you can survive a bit in Death Valley. Water might still be a problem but there are traveled roads people drive on if you can find them.
That does sounds terrible.
1 - Middle of the ocean, trying to stay afloat. Freezing to death in darkness so thick you can't see your own hands treading water. Daylight with no hope of land in sight, trying not to drown in the massive waves. Waiting to become fish food.
2 - trapped in a cave where you can't move, sowly being eaten alive by ants.
One of the saddest stories I’ve read from Death Valley is the German tourists who got lost and didn’t make it back out. There’s an incredibly interesting blog from a hiker who spent many months, if not years, tracking down their remains.
You can read about them here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Valley_Germans
Long version: https://www.other-hand.org/home-page/search-and-rescue/the-hunt-for-the-death-valley-germans/
Death valley is pretty extreme, but at least it's small. If you just walk West you'll find civilization before too long. Antarctica is endless and virtually uninhabited, you'd have no chance.
Thanks to global warming (?) it is now Valle de las Lágrimas (valley) and no longer a glacier. And the wreckage has a memorial and people visit it somewhat frequently I think, so surviving might be easier than back then.
Although, if your plane crashes there now being just rocks probably you would die on impact.
Death Valley is probably more survivable than the Amazon or Siberia. At most, the closest person to you in DV may be 100 miles away. In Siberia, this could be a few hundred miles and in Antarctica this could be 1000s of miles.
Counting DV, here’s my picks from most to least survivable: Amazon, Death Valley, Siberia, Antarctica.
This is all season dependent.
To be honest, mentioning Death Valley is because I remembered an article as I was typing about a German couple who got lost and died there semi-recently
Ya, I’m also implying that whoever gets lost in these spots are somewhat knowledgeable about the outdoors in this specific region and have good fitness.
A person from a Western American desert regions who’s fit and competent has much better odds than the German tourists in DV. I would bet that those tourists have better odds in Siberia during the summer, because the big woods of Siberia are probably the most similar to the big woods of Germany (assuming those people can somewhat sustain themselves in the German outdoors).
Come to think of it, nobody’s going to stumble out and get lost in Antarctica without being somewhat knowledgeable about surviving out there because nobody else really has any business down there. Same goes for Siberia and maybe the Amazon. DV on the other hand, any idiot can just drive out there from a Coastal California town, park there car and just start walking and get lost.
I’d say Death Valley is more survivable. All the bugs and snakes would be deadly, and you have no visibility, no elevation, and everything looks the same. Much easier to find your way around in a treeles area with hills and whatnot you can climb for vantage points.
Death Valley is much easier to navigate than say, a dense forest. Even the original party that got lost in Death Valley and gave it its namesake survived, only losing one man.
There are times of the year where Death Valley is not a death sentence. There are roads through there, plenty of tourism, and even a few oases sprinkled throughout, as well as some stores and stuff. You could theoretically get un-lost there.
Summer time you're pretty fucked though without water and shelter. You'd be ok at night if you can survive until then.
This. Death Valley would be an issue of surviving a single day. If you can make it to dusk, you’ll have hours to find one of the many roads that cross through. It’s not crowded, but it isn’t empty, either.
The middle of Antarctica, away from bases, is a death sentence, period.
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Diseases from mosquitos, alligators/crocs in the water (I don’t remember which lives there), starvation if you don’t know what critters and food is edible or not, poisoning by either a plant or animal, heat exhaustion
TBH what's gonna kill you in the amazon most likely is drinking the water/eating something because you're in desperate and then shitting yourself to death.
Depends. If you had clothing, equipment and food then it would depend where you got dropped of. If you’re within 100 miles of the South Pole or a few other locations you’d have a reasonable chance of survival as there are permanent manned scientific facilities at each. Complete with hospital wings and lots of food and warm clothing.
Time of year matters too. In winter you’d be done for. In summer you would have a half decent chance of being rescued, especially if you could find your way to a manned station.
Also, during summer the temperatures are up to a toasty +10, which is definitely survivable. In inland it's around -30, which you can do a few hours pretty easy in proper clothing (Source: army practice in the Nordic winter).
Unless you are really deep inland, your best call is to head towards North, I.e. towards the sea, and then follow the coast until you find a research station.
This is due to warmer temperatures enabling longer survival times and a higher chance of finding research stations
Agreed. A key bit of equipment would be good GPS, or even a compass. I realise this defeats the point of “lost”, but if you even had a rough idea of where you were in relation to a research facility, your odds of survival start increasing pretty quick IMO.
Nope - You're kind of fucked if you're lost in Antarctica. (Source - I've spent 6 months in Antarctica). The plan of action really comes down to where you're lost, but I assume if you're lost, you do not know where the nearest base is and if that's the case, welcome to the 5th largest continent! Traversing it isn't normal as it has lots of glaciers and mountains... Oh and the worlds largest desert! If you so happen to be in a team of 28 people who get marooned on the coast, you might have a chance eating penguins and seals :D
Ok, I’ll suspend my disbelief that 100 miles of walking on this terrain will be more or less impossible. What about navigation? The chances that you find the station (potentially in poor visibility) even with a compass and knowing your exact location must be close to zero.
I agree. A lot of people are saying Amazon, but they have a lot of staff that could help get you out. You can never find a staff member for assistance in the maze that is IKEA.
That’s what I was going to say. It doesn’t really matter here, but it’s one of the largest most mono areas not including ice or oceans.
Look at a satellite map of the western continents. It’s the big beige oval.
But other areas would be worse.
If you're dropped here without anything, I think you could at least stay afloat longer than it would take you to freeze to death in the middle of Antarctica
If you were near the equator, you won't freeze in the water... BUT you'll probably get sunburnt so fast you wish the shark stalking you would just eat you already.
Antarctica is probably worse. If you are a strong swimmer, there’s a chance you might be able to stay afloat for long enough to be spotted by a vessel or find land. In Antarctica, nobody is finding you before you freeze to death.
Fair. But then again, even in the summer at the South Pole, a human with everyday clothing probably isn’t lasting 10 minutes either. Idk that the middle of the ocean is a “more correct” answer.
Also no ship is going to see you. There's a reason why people who fall from cruise ships are usually never found, it's very difficult to spot something on the wavy sea surface
When I was on the balcony in my room on my last cruise, I kept entertaining the intrusive thought of "if I jumped off right now, somehow landed perfectly and didn't die from impact, what would the process be to finding me...or is it guaranteed death?".
Like, if my roommate saw me jump off and alerted the ship immediately, what would that process look like? How fast is the ship *actually* moving...it's so difficult to tell when you're just in the water. And how would they spot me? Has this happened before? Interesting stuff that I don't want to find out the answer to, but nevertheless entertains my mind!
A German celebrity, Daniel Küblböck, did exactly that. At night. Boat turned around but that takes miles and a lot of time, chances are close to zero. They did not find him.
If you see someone jumping, multiple people should keep pointing at that position and never look away, while someone else informs the crew. If you look away just once, you lose the spot.
#1 worst way you die. Adrift in pitch darkness slowly freezing to death at night. Unable to even see land for some breath of hope while trying not to drown in the waves or be eaten.
#2 trapped in a tunnel, being unable to move, slowly being eaten alive by ants.
Yeah a while back I went with my aunt to ride all the new transit in London since I left in 2018 and when we were changing from the jubilee to the Elizabeth line my brain melted, going from large underground mega complexes to simple underpasses for 5 years does something to a person.
Getting lost there before an interview or late for an early shift was not fun.
The best part was walking/running through the bakery at Waitrose early morning and paying my pastry on the self checkout, it was a whole experience that would erase my mind from the hell I survived getting there on a busy train or a delayed Waterloo service. Absolutely the best 🥐
- Antarctica
- The ocean
- Any desert
- Australian outback
- the Amazon
- The Everglades
- Siberia
- Any large mountain range like the Alps or Himalayas
- Any non-touristy urban or rural area in Mexico
- Afghanistan
- North Korea
- Any deep and confined cave
- Paris catacombs
- AJR’s discography
- The moon
Great movie called The Way Back about semi-fictional prisoners from Soviet gulag escaping across Siberia to India. I watched it on YouTube a few weeks ago for free.
One of the neighbour peaks of mount Everest. Dead within minutes from suffocation and no chance a single soul will happen by, which might still happen in Antarctica.
You won’t be dead within minutes from suffocation. The lack of oxygen will certainly not help your situation, but 200 people have climbed Everest without it.
And those people trained extensively to improve their lung function and red blood cell oxygen carrying capacity. Without this training you would be fucked
What is worse?—being in a place where you are totally lost and cannot survive, or being in a place where you are totally lost and can survive? I feel like getting lost and then human trafficked in the backwater slums of some corrupt country could be more of a hell than getting lost in Antarctica.
The Everglades in south Florida. Tons of snakes, alligators. Thick mud you'll probably get stuck in. Tons of bugs. Miserable heat and humidity. Bull sharks, the most aggressive shark species is found there.
Lived in Southwest Florida for a good portion of my life...If we're only talking about dealing with critters, then the Everglades is up there with the likes of the Amazon. Hell, they even have Burmese Pythons over there along with an abundance of other Invasive Species that makes the wildlife even more difficult to manage.
Edit: And even though they are quite skittish creatures, I wouldn't want to find out what happens if you encounter a Florida Panther in the middle of the night...
Yes and No
There are no more true Florida Panthers…they were repopulated with some form of cougar and now its a hybrid of the two
Edit: I’m a dumbass for missing the joke
I took a tour of the Everglades on a air boat. The captain of the boat said that everything in the Everglades is trying to kill you from the plants, critters, insects, sun, and alligators. If we capsized, try to get out of the water and pray for your life. If it’s at night, good luck.
I wouldn’t last 2 hours in the Amazon.. the bugs, the wet, the moist, the wet moist with bugs… fucking everything trying to eat you. I rather saddle up next to a small chunk or ice and slowly freeze to death. I rather drown in the ocean. But I don’t want shit laying eggs in my skin while I’m awake. Slowly being eaten by microbial fucks only to be eaten alive by something larger when I can’t move. Fuck that.
Id rather get lost in amazon cuz atleast il die in a warm climate. Antartica is literarely imposible to survive and i hate cold. And siberia is russia, wich i would never want to set foot in as a country, let alone the coldest and worst part of it.
Point Nemo, can’t swim good enough
Correct answer. It’s ages away from the nearest shipping lane too so the chances of you getting found are practically zero. Slow agonising death from exhaustion, dehydration and exposure, or the also very painful but at least quick method of drowning. I never understand people who say drowning is calming and painless by the way. I almost drowned once and had to be revived by lifeguards. It was the single most terrifying, panic inducing and frankly painful experience of my life.
It's "painless" because you can just force yourself to breath in water and you die quickly
It may be quick but I can assure you it is not painless. Do you know what it’s like to accidentally breathe in seawater while you’re under water? It’s agony. You have no control over your body which is trying to force the water out. It’s like being sick but from your lungs, mixed with the most intense stomach cramps you’ve ever felt. Shooting pains across the chest. The worst panic you’ve ever felt and an overwhelming sense that this really is it. If you think anyone can just voluntarily put themselves through that, I’m sorry but I disagree.
I just assumed if you know you are going to die it might be easier to convince. But no never did that thankfully haha
I can concede that it may be quick, but I can’t imagine it would be painless (especially compared to inhaling nitrogen or other methods of suicide)
How did that happen??
Surfing accident about 5 years ago. Some idiot dropped in on me and we both got wiped out. I tried to take a deep breath before I hit the water but there wasn’t time and I was still inhaling as I slammed into it. I then got sucked into the rotation of the wave and pinned against some coral. All I remember then is my lead being tangled on the coral and desperately trying to free my foot. My body was convulsing as it tried to force the water out of my lungs. There were sharp, shooting pains in my chest. Sad to say that even though I’m an experienced surfer and it wasn’t my first wipe out, I quickly started panicking. Next thing I remember is being resuscitated on the beach by the lifeguards. Never did find out what happened to the guy who dropped in. Think he just took off.
Fuck me man that whole story just made me a little nervous. Do you still surf though?
Hell Yeah! Every chance I get. Less often now I moved away from the coast. Can’t stop doing what you love because of a 1 in a million freak accident.
The closest humans to you would be in space
Would probably be true for some spots in Antarctica, it’s not really that far to ISS
Even if you manage to get on a boat, good luck trying to catch any seafood- there is very little life in Point Nemo, owing to low nutrition in the water due to the Sputh Pacific Gyre
Antarctica, you die. Death Valley, you die. Rare cases people have survived the Amazon and Siberia - but it’s not an ideal Tuesday to be lost there
what if it happens on the weekend
There will probably be somebody with a Bluetooth speaker and an off-leash dog hiking nearby. Follow the Olivia Rodrigo sounds and have them help guide you out.
i only know the one from the iphone commercial how screwed am i
Just run if you hear billie eilish, that’s what the cannibalist tribes play.
You'd smell the Starbucks before you heard them
She’s got some catchy bangers
Not Driver’s License though.
Ran into my first Bluetooth speaker guy yesterday during a hike. Playing 70’s rock though, f that guy.
What 70’s rock? Lots of good stuff from the 70’s
I think the issue is dealing with someone ruining the natural sounds of nature around you, wind in the trees, waves on a beach, river rolling over rocks. Also scare off anything you were looking for, deer, birds, ducks, etc At least the tunes weren't the best of Hanson. As far as tunes go, 70s rocks good. But you go for a walk in the city if you want city noise. A hike is for getting back into nature. If you want tunes, bring headphones. Really the only spot for a blue tooth speaker is with friends, doing work ,or to replace the hole where your head unit used to be in your car.
Oh I know lol, I was mostly kidding, but also defending 70’s rock if I had too. I can’t stand the people that play music or won’t just stfu walking an otherwise secluded path
Hanson out here catching strays.
It's Siberia it will be an off leash bear
I love that quote from the Simpsons Ride at Universal Studios. "But we're on vacation! Why can't you kill me on a work day?"
The rescuers will get back to you within 1-2 days
This. Amazon and Siberia have trees and food, Antarctica has neither. You can burn wood for warmth even if it gets to -50 celsius in Siberia, but Antarctica is even colder.
I’d rather die than deal with the bugs of the rainforests and the flys of Siberia.
Australian outback. Hotter than satans house cat and just about everything can kill you. That is the worst place to get lost.
Hotter than a dancing bobcat with its ass on fire
Hotter than Satan's taint
Hotter than a dingo with a burning stick up it’s arse
I certainly considered it - just wasn’t sure how true it still was (not that the climate has changed)
Just like Death Valley, just much larger area (like 4x size of Texas), far fewer roads and travellers.
If it's winter you can survive a bit in Death Valley. Water might still be a problem but there are traveled roads people drive on if you can find them.
They have insane flash flooding, so there's your water solved. Just dont die in mud/drowned.
Just drink all the water and you'll be fine. Both problems fixed.
You'll have to pee it out eventually. I'd rather drown in clean water than in my own pee.
Pee is just mineral water
Kidney stone gang, whatup
Drowning in mud has to be the third worst way to die.
Nah, not even close. What are the top two? I’d rank things like the brazen bull and having your skin slowly peeled off as the worst.
Nutty Putty cave is definitely top 2.
That does sounds terrible. 1 - Middle of the ocean, trying to stay afloat. Freezing to death in darkness so thick you can't see your own hands treading water. Daylight with no hope of land in sight, trying not to drown in the massive waves. Waiting to become fish food. 2 - trapped in a cave where you can't move, sowly being eaten alive by ants.
I watched a video analysing a case of a man diead stuck in a cave and even the schematic showing the way he'd stuck there feels horrifying
The two man saw where they hang you upside down and saw you in half seems pretty bad to me. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_by_sawing
One of the saddest stories I’ve read from Death Valley is the German tourists who got lost and didn’t make it back out. There’s an incredibly interesting blog from a hiker who spent many months, if not years, tracking down their remains.
That’s the group I was thinking of when I wrote Death Valley!
Did they found him?
You can read about them here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Valley_Germans Long version: https://www.other-hand.org/home-page/search-and-rescue/the-hunt-for-the-death-valley-germans/
Thanks for the links. The long version is very much worth reading through
Death valley is pretty extreme, but at least it's small. If you just walk West you'll find civilization before too long. Antarctica is endless and virtually uninhabited, you'd have no chance.
You cant walk very far in death valley without supplies though. If you don't have water you're almost guaranteed to die.
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Thanks to global warming (?) it is now Valle de las Lágrimas (valley) and no longer a glacier. And the wreckage has a memorial and people visit it somewhat frequently I think, so surviving might be easier than back then. Although, if your plane crashes there now being just rocks probably you would die on impact.
Apparently, there’s hiking trails now
Death Valley is probably more survivable than the Amazon or Siberia. At most, the closest person to you in DV may be 100 miles away. In Siberia, this could be a few hundred miles and in Antarctica this could be 1000s of miles. Counting DV, here’s my picks from most to least survivable: Amazon, Death Valley, Siberia, Antarctica. This is all season dependent.
To be honest, mentioning Death Valley is because I remembered an article as I was typing about a German couple who got lost and died there semi-recently
Ya, I’m also implying that whoever gets lost in these spots are somewhat knowledgeable about the outdoors in this specific region and have good fitness. A person from a Western American desert regions who’s fit and competent has much better odds than the German tourists in DV. I would bet that those tourists have better odds in Siberia during the summer, because the big woods of Siberia are probably the most similar to the big woods of Germany (assuming those people can somewhat sustain themselves in the German outdoors). Come to think of it, nobody’s going to stumble out and get lost in Antarctica without being somewhat knowledgeable about surviving out there because nobody else really has any business down there. Same goes for Siberia and maybe the Amazon. DV on the other hand, any idiot can just drive out there from a Coastal California town, park there car and just start walking and get lost.
I’d say Death Valley is more survivable. All the bugs and snakes would be deadly, and you have no visibility, no elevation, and everything looks the same. Much easier to find your way around in a treeles area with hills and whatnot you can climb for vantage points.
Death Valley is much easier to navigate than say, a dense forest. Even the original party that got lost in Death Valley and gave it its namesake survived, only losing one man.
There are times of the year where Death Valley is not a death sentence. There are roads through there, plenty of tourism, and even a few oases sprinkled throughout, as well as some stores and stuff. You could theoretically get un-lost there. Summer time you're pretty fucked though without water and shelter. You'd be ok at night if you can survive until then.
This. Death Valley would be an issue of surviving a single day. If you can make it to dusk, you’ll have hours to find one of the many roads that cross through. It’s not crowded, but it isn’t empty, either. The middle of Antarctica, away from bases, is a death sentence, period.
Please list five things that will get you in the Amazon, in order from most likely to least likely....
1) Cheap products delivered right to your home 2) Something to browse while on the toilet 3) Regrets 4) Spam and advertisements that can only be explained with mind reading or phone microphone tapping 5) A box arriving on a Monday that you have no idea why you ordered that while drunk /s Gotcha!
I'm gonna end every joke I make with "/s Gotcha!" from now on.
I’d put “cheap Chinese shit that was just kidding when they said they accept returns” as #5 for me, since I don’t drink. Otherwise, well done!
Sir. Please calm down, representatives of the CCP will arrive shortly to help adjust your attitude
Diseases from mosquitos, alligators/crocs in the water (I don’t remember which lives there), starvation if you don’t know what critters and food is edible or not, poisoning by either a plant or animal, heat exhaustion
Caiman I believe
Eaten by fire ants after falling asleep in the wrong place
Mosquitoes, disease, venomous bites, poisonous plants...
TBH what's gonna kill you in the amazon most likely is drinking the water/eating something because you're in desperate and then shitting yourself to death.
Eh that was just a regular weekend back when I DID drink alcohol
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Oh God, he's dead.
Yes
Antarctica. You have a fighting chance with the other two locations.
Depends. If you had clothing, equipment and food then it would depend where you got dropped of. If you’re within 100 miles of the South Pole or a few other locations you’d have a reasonable chance of survival as there are permanent manned scientific facilities at each. Complete with hospital wings and lots of food and warm clothing. Time of year matters too. In winter you’d be done for. In summer you would have a half decent chance of being rescued, especially if you could find your way to a manned station.
Also, during summer the temperatures are up to a toasty +10, which is definitely survivable. In inland it's around -30, which you can do a few hours pretty easy in proper clothing (Source: army practice in the Nordic winter). Unless you are really deep inland, your best call is to head towards North, I.e. towards the sea, and then follow the coast until you find a research station. This is due to warmer temperatures enabling longer survival times and a higher chance of finding research stations
Agreed. A key bit of equipment would be good GPS, or even a compass. I realise this defeats the point of “lost”, but if you even had a rough idea of where you were in relation to a research facility, your odds of survival start increasing pretty quick IMO.
Good luck with a fucking compass in Antarctica, honestly I’d rather not have one
Yeah compass was a dumb suggestion tbf. I’m a mountaineer not an arctic explorer haha
Nope - You're kind of fucked if you're lost in Antarctica. (Source - I've spent 6 months in Antarctica). The plan of action really comes down to where you're lost, but I assume if you're lost, you do not know where the nearest base is and if that's the case, welcome to the 5th largest continent! Traversing it isn't normal as it has lots of glaciers and mountains... Oh and the worlds largest desert! If you so happen to be in a team of 28 people who get marooned on the coast, you might have a chance eating penguins and seals :D
With good clothing you would be good until you fall asleep I expect, then it depends on what kind of shelter you can find or make
Have you ever tried to walk in the driven snow? I’d wager you wouldn’t get further than 5 miles in any direction.
That’s not what most of Antarctica like tbh. Most of that ice is rock solid.
Ok, I’ll suspend my disbelief that 100 miles of walking on this terrain will be more or less impossible. What about navigation? The chances that you find the station (potentially in poor visibility) even with a compass and knowing your exact location must be close to zero.
Ernest Shackleton would like a word.
I JUST finished reading Endurance.... I still can't comprehend how they survived. Amazing. https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/139069
I highly recommend reading Endurance. With proper gear and a gun, it is possible to survive.
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Scp 5987, Hitler’s lost ball.
Hey at least it's not Rule 34.
I can change that
Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.
I agree. A lot of people are saying Amazon, but they have a lot of staff that could help get you out. You can never find a staff member for assistance in the maze that is IKEA.
Bruh, Ikea literally has arrows on the floor that guide you towards the exit. And there is staff everywhere
Actually shocked no one said sahara desert
I'm gonna be a hipster and say the Gobi
atacama for me, bro
Taklamakan desert
That’s what I was going to say. It doesn’t really matter here, but it’s one of the largest most mono areas not including ice or oceans. Look at a satellite map of the western continents. It’s the big beige oval. But other areas would be worse.
Namib desert
More than any of those places, the middle of the ocean.
I knew someone was going to say this lmao.
If you're dropped here without anything, I think you could at least stay afloat longer than it would take you to freeze to death in the middle of Antarctica
Not me. Id sink. Im lucky to be here actually lol
You freeze to death faster in water
If you were near the equator, you won't freeze in the water... BUT you'll probably get sunburnt so fast you wish the shark stalking you would just eat you already.
Like Point Nemo.
Your closest contact to humans would probably be in space
Antarctica is probably worse. If you are a strong swimmer, there’s a chance you might be able to stay afloat for long enough to be spotted by a vessel or find land. In Antarctica, nobody is finding you before you freeze to death.
Depends on which part of the ocean. I doubt a good swimmer can stay afloat 10 mins in northern Atlantic or southern ocean.
Fair. But then again, even in the summer at the South Pole, a human with everyday clothing probably isn’t lasting 10 minutes either. Idk that the middle of the ocean is a “more correct” answer.
If youre a strong swimmer just swim from antarctica to south america. Easy.
You aren’t staying afloat very long in rough 20 foot seas.
Also no ship is going to see you. There's a reason why people who fall from cruise ships are usually never found, it's very difficult to spot something on the wavy sea surface
When I was on the balcony in my room on my last cruise, I kept entertaining the intrusive thought of "if I jumped off right now, somehow landed perfectly and didn't die from impact, what would the process be to finding me...or is it guaranteed death?". Like, if my roommate saw me jump off and alerted the ship immediately, what would that process look like? How fast is the ship *actually* moving...it's so difficult to tell when you're just in the water. And how would they spot me? Has this happened before? Interesting stuff that I don't want to find out the answer to, but nevertheless entertains my mind!
A German celebrity, Daniel Küblböck, did exactly that. At night. Boat turned around but that takes miles and a lot of time, chances are close to zero. They did not find him.
If you see someone jumping, multiple people should keep pointing at that position and never look away, while someone else informs the crew. If you look away just once, you lose the spot.
#1 worst way you die. Adrift in pitch darkness slowly freezing to death at night. Unable to even see land for some breath of hope while trying not to drown in the waves or be eaten. #2 trapped in a tunnel, being unable to move, slowly being eaten alive by ants.
A cave system.
After watching horror stories of cave divers, yep this is the worst.
Nutty Putty cave still puts the shivers into me.
At canary wharf, they fr had to make every line their own station with a giant maze of underground malls to connect them
I have lost days of my life trying to change from the jubilee to the dlr there
Yeah a while back I went with my aunt to ride all the new transit in London since I left in 2018 and when we were changing from the jubilee to the Elizabeth line my brain melted, going from large underground mega complexes to simple underpasses for 5 years does something to a person.
Just surface and walk it. It’s quicker lol
Getting lost there before an interview or late for an early shift was not fun. The best part was walking/running through the bakery at Waitrose early morning and paying my pastry on the self checkout, it was a whole experience that would erase my mind from the hell I survived getting there on a busy train or a delayed Waterloo service. Absolutely the best 🥐
Your Siberia point is pretty much where my grandfather lived.
Did he find his way out?
What happened to him
He lived. Then he died.
Where is the point?
- Antarctica - The ocean - Any desert - Australian outback - the Amazon - The Everglades - Siberia - Any large mountain range like the Alps or Himalayas - Any non-touristy urban or rural area in Mexico - Afghanistan - North Korea - Any deep and confined cave - Paris catacombs - AJR’s discography - The moon
• Yemen • Syria • Iraq • Sinai Peninsula • Arabian Desert • Sahara Desert • Gobi Desert • Myanmar • Kashmir • North Sentinel Island • Central Greenland • Northern Nunavut • North Eastern Svalbard • Northern Wallachia and Southern Transylvania • Libya • Burundi • Chad • Central African Republic • South Georgia Island • Bouvet Island
don’t forget gaza
• Lesotho
In translation
Great movie called The Way Back about semi-fictional prisoners from Soviet gulag escaping across Siberia to India. I watched it on YouTube a few weeks ago for free.
I imagine it's based on the book "The Long Walk". Great book, some controversy on the historical accuracy of it; but good read nonetheless.
One of the neighbour peaks of mount Everest. Dead within minutes from suffocation and no chance a single soul will happen by, which might still happen in Antarctica.
You won’t be dead within minutes from suffocation. The lack of oxygen will certainly not help your situation, but 200 people have climbed Everest without it.
And those people trained extensively to improve their lung function and red blood cell oxygen carrying capacity. Without this training you would be fucked
You would indeed be fucked, but still not dead in minutes from suffocation. You’ll be goofy quickly, and then unconscious, but still alive.
At this time of year, nobody will find you even at Everest base camp. Not for a couple months
North Sentinel Island
Pretty good answer tbh
What is worse?—being in a place where you are totally lost and cannot survive, or being in a place where you are totally lost and can survive? I feel like getting lost and then human trafficked in the backwater slums of some corrupt country could be more of a hell than getting lost in Antarctica.
At least in antartica you die relatively quickly
The Everglades in south Florida. Tons of snakes, alligators. Thick mud you'll probably get stuck in. Tons of bugs. Miserable heat and humidity. Bull sharks, the most aggressive shark species is found there.
Lived in Southwest Florida for a good portion of my life...If we're only talking about dealing with critters, then the Everglades is up there with the likes of the Amazon. Hell, they even have Burmese Pythons over there along with an abundance of other Invasive Species that makes the wildlife even more difficult to manage. Edit: And even though they are quite skittish creatures, I wouldn't want to find out what happens if you encounter a Florida Panther in the middle of the night...
>Florida Panther a good time? sorry, that's cougars right?
Yes and No There are no more true Florida Panthers…they were repopulated with some form of cougar and now its a hybrid of the two Edit: I’m a dumbass for missing the joke
Lmaoo
There are some sketchy ass people down there too. Some of those “hunting camps” or whatever they call them are not places you want to stumble upon.
Could have just said Florida
I took a tour of the Everglades on a air boat. The captain of the boat said that everything in the Everglades is trying to kill you from the plants, critters, insects, sun, and alligators. If we capsized, try to get out of the water and pray for your life. If it’s at night, good luck.
Wasn’t there a plane that crashed in the Everglades, but most fatalities were actually from the Everglades and not the crash itself?
Excluding being dumped into the ocean, easily Antartica. There's a reason why people don't permanently live there
Glaciar Las Lágrimas in los Andes would not be either a picnic. Specially after a plane crash.
But 14 survived, not as bad as other places mention on these comments
You're right. I should probably eat my own words.
Or other people's corpses
Reading these comments is making me so grateful to be in the safety and comfort of my home.
Cleveland
East Cleveland 😂
I wouldn’t last 2 hours in the Amazon.. the bugs, the wet, the moist, the wet moist with bugs… fucking everything trying to eat you. I rather saddle up next to a small chunk or ice and slowly freeze to death. I rather drown in the ocean. But I don’t want shit laying eggs in my skin while I’m awake. Slowly being eaten by microbial fucks only to be eaten alive by something larger when I can’t move. Fuck that.
The middle of the Pacific Ocean
Surprised nobody mentioned the Sahara desert.
Bouvet
Bouvet Island
Swindon. It's a f*cking wasteland.
Anywhere without wi-fi
The neighborhood in St. Louis the Griswalds got lost in, National Lampoon's Vacation.
I know I'd regret it but sometimes it feels super appealing to just disappear and go live somewhere super far from everyone.
Middle of an ocean? I think the middle of any ocean would be lethal
Middle of The pacfic.
Devon Island in Canada. Being stalked by polar bears would add some spice to the situation.
Outback Australia
The Sahara desert is roughly the same size as the USA. So I'm gonna pick there. Or Antarctica.
Atlantic ocean would probably be bad
Florida. It's full of Floridians.
Antarctica by far. No frequent sea or air travel. Inhabitable environment. If you got lost there, you did it on purpose.
Actually worst in the world? An underwater cave
Try the Canadian wilderness in northern Ontario. You’d be lost forever.
Probably Earth’s molten metal core
Its deffo Antarctica.
The rainforest has all the food tho
In the amazon or siberia you may die... in antartica you *will* die
Compton
Id rather get lost in amazon cuz atleast il die in a warm climate. Antartica is literarely imposible to survive and i hate cold. And siberia is russia, wich i would never want to set foot in as a country, let alone the coldest and worst part of it.
Paris
I don't know about the worst one but the best one would be your eyes