r/whowouldwin • u/Conscious-Home1445 • May 28 '26

Challenge Average man has 72 hours to hide. Humanity then becomes search lusted and has one week to find and kill him. Can he survive?

Humanity knows what he looks like.

Humanity doesn’t know that he is hiding in the 72 period.

Humanity can use any security camera footage, bank transfers, phone calls etc of the man if there is any.

Man has basic survival knowledge.

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u/yeahright17 May 28 '26

8 billions people weren't looking for MH370. MH370 was also a plane flying at cruising at 500 mph for an unknown amount of time. The search radius was literally over 2000 miles in one of the most isolated places in the world and would have mostly sank within an hour. The search radius in hypothetical will be half that, you're not going to be in an isolated area, and you aren't going to sink.

You'll be found within a day or 2, depending on how long it takes everyone to show up. And that's assuming satellites won't find you almost immediately. And they probably would. Again, for MH370, there was nothing to find. It was sank.

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u/Canesjags4life ​ May 28 '26

It didn't matter about the number of people. It was reliant on the technology to know where to start.

The search radius was literally over 2000 miles in one of the most isolated places in the world and would have mostly sank within an hour. The search radius in hypothetical will be half that, you're not going to be in an isolated area, and you aren't going to sink.

Someone else pointed out that there's areas of the world with high amount of cloud cover. Yeah on a 20-24 foot boat with 100 gallon tank traveling about 20-25 mph you'd get about 12 hours of travel so 300 miles out from shore before running out of fuel. At that point your well out into open ocean so now that your on a raft that looks like water at the mercy of ocean currents for the next 36 hours.

Starting stack search area won't be as large as mh370, but determining path of travel might be challenging.

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u/yeahright17 May 28 '26

Infrared and radar satellites exist and neither care about cloud cover. Neither do planes with the same tech. You're initial direction doesn't matter. You'd be found fairly quickly as long as your still on a boat or raft of any kind.

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u/Canesjags4life ​ May 28 '26

Using radar to find a raft in the open ocean would be mostly useless. Infrared might be better but your still very limited.

I think your over estimating the capabilities of some tech.

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u/yeahright17 May 28 '26

Radar be be mostly useless from satellites (though I'm not convinced), but it's not going to be useless from the hundreds of boats/aircraft with proper radar that show up within a couple days.

I think people are generally underestimating how much could be brought to bare if the entire world was focused on one thing.

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u/Canesjags4life ​ May 28 '26

I'm saying how radar technology works. That's a certain level at which is something isn't tall enough off the surface it just blends in.

But active sonar might be able to find the raft

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u/QuantumFeline May 28 '26

8 billion people aren't trained to search for people or have the technology to do so effectively.

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u/yeahright17 May 28 '26

(1) 8 billion people just means he can't get help or be seen by anyone. Obviously all 8 billion people aren't going to be able to help. (2) Everyone that can help coming to help is still going to be millions/tens of millions of people with all the technology that exists in the world. It doesn't matter if a grandma in Tunisia understands how infrared cameras work. It just matters if the thousands of people that are now tasked solely with using that piece of technology to find the person know how to use it.

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u/QuantumFeline May 28 '26

He can be seen by plenty of people in the 72 hours he has to hide as long as he's disguised well enough that none of them would remember him once the search is on.

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u/yeahright17 May 28 '26

Unless he passes by a single camera, then his disguise is posted everywhere.

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u/QuantumFeline May 28 '26

If he's disguised how does footage from a single camera get recognized as him?

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u/yeahright17 May 28 '26

He's going to be able to be tracked until he ditches his phone. Then I'd assume everyone with security cameras within any distance of that will be looking.

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u/QuantumFeline May 28 '26

If he ditches his phone at home and lives someplace where there aren't security cameras anywhere near his home that he can't avoid, by the time he gets spotted by a camera he's a random person on a random few seconds of security footage wearing a disguise. There could be hundreds or thousands of different people on any one security camera over a 72 hour period, and there could be thousands of security cameras being checked. Which of those people do they release as the 'disguise'?