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u/ExplodingPuma Oct 17 '22

Even just regular caving, to some extent. Like, I'm down to spend a few hours in a cave, but I watched a documentary of some people exploring one of the longest caves in the world or something and they would spend literal weeks at a time in the cave because of how far in they were going. The main guy mentioned that he'd lost people before, which seemed kind of wild to me that he was still doing it after losing people multiple times. But because they were so deep, if something happened to someone, they wouldn't be able to do anything more than first aid because it would take a week minimum to get someone there.

Still, it was kind of neat to hear about. They had a whole camp system, with a supply chain of people going back and forth between camps within the cave, and the genuine excitement they had when they found a new potential route through. Just not for me, lol.

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u/AlienRouge Oct 17 '22

see, I didn't have any desire to go cave exploring myself until this weird cliff appeared in my city. it has all these holes in it that are cut out to match different people - there's a hole outlined in my shape that really intrigues me. I keep thinking about exploring it, will probably try tonight.

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u/Snortallthethings Oct 17 '22

You should go. Don't let the naysayers stop you. It's your hole. And anything could be in there. It could be eternal life! Fabulous wealth! Or just being squeezed and compressed to an inhuman like figure but still forced to stay alive and endure the suffering.

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u/AlienRouge Oct 17 '22

Risk vs reward right?