You are buried in a coffin 6ft deep, with no light or cell phone. There is only a small tube connected to the coffin from outside that allows you to breathe (edit: you can breathe with no difficulty). After 48 hours, you are dug up and given 1 million dollars. Do you do it?
Edit: No food and water, no diaper, and no contact with the outside world. Once buried, they leave for 48hr and come back to dig you up. The coffin is only wide enough for you to lay on your back (no rolling around), and the inside is wood and not particularly comfortable. The only items you’re allowed to bring with you are life sustaining medication (e.g. an asthma inhaler). No knocking yourself out with pills or anxiety meds. The money is a briefcase full of cash.
You mean 48 hours of peace and quite AND I get a million‽ sigh me the fuck up.
48 hours without water? Absolutely not. There is a high probability of exiting a cripple or dead, at least for me. Not to mention my medicine.
Just drink a lot before and you’d be good to go IMO
Edit: at a normal temperature of course.
If you are producing enough urine to drown in a coffin in 48 hours you should see a urologist
I’ve spent that much time without water without knowing it lol. It’s not a long period of time without water.
48 hours without water is a no go.
Maybe you can. But the thing about statistics like that it’s that they avoid saying “the average person”, and problems with averages is that half of the people are under it.
If it’s not just made up data in the first place.
The thing is, the average person can survive about 4 days without water under normal circumstances. It would be even longer with no physical exertion, assuming it isn’t too hot and the humidity is right. I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that the vast majority of healthy adults could survive not drinking for 48 hours if they’re spending that entire 48 hours lying down. The things to worry about here are mental health and infection from waste, not dehydration.
The rule of thumb is “three days without water” because that’s how long most people can go. It’s not the ld50. It wouldn’t be a very popular rule of thumb if it got half of the people who followed it killed.
Could I hire a guy and pay him 48 hours of minimum wage to lay in the coffin for me and then collect the million dollars at the end? I think I just invented capitalism.
What makes you think OP hasn’t just been offered 10 million dollars to lay in a coffin for 48 hours?
I’d drink water until I was ready to explode, jump in that thing with an evil laugh and a wink, then emerge two days later as the world’s most pee-drenched millionaire.
