đ„ A Polar Bear following photographer Paul Souders from under the ice.Submitted by W0lfsKitten t3_10obyn5 in creepy
KuroOni t1_j6e33ts wrote
Beautiful picture, but you won't be able to convince me to swap places with the photographer even if the picture would be worth billions.
halmyradov t1_j6ewcb5 wrote
Depends what lens I'll be using, and if there's a safehouse somewhere.
For a billion, I'm ready to take even the stupidest odds
445nm t1_j6ex9v2 wrote
No one said you can't take a gun.
For a billion, you can probably take the bloody pictures from within an APC with machineguns and stuff.
Unless people show up and say that these can't even tickle bears because bears are literal gods or something.
only_for_browsing t1_j6h19t2 wrote
Fun fact, the original word for bear is lost because people were so afraid that if you said it a bear would show up and eat you, so they used the word that eventually morphed into bear as a euphemism
hehehuh t1_j6hh0nu wrote
It's not really lost, I think. Some languages still use it, for example ursus in Latin is afaik closely related to the original Germanic word. But indeed bear is derived from the word brown
only_for_browsing t1_j6hjbkq wrote
I'm going off my brother who is almost worryingly obsessed with bears. Apparently ursa and other bear words all came from proto Indo European and all are not the original word for bear, which is lost, because of the fear. He could definitely be wrong but that's how he tells it
KuroOni t1_j6ey4m7 wrote
given that this bear is very clearly stalking the photographer, I am assuming it is the kind of lens that needs you to get up close to that beast. And since AFAIK polar bears avoid getting close to humans I don't think there is any safehouse in the area.
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Hope you can outrun a polar bear because I am not sure even usain bolt in his prime will be able to.
Sparrowbuck t1_j6fz8u9 wrote
Hahah no they donât. Theyâll go wherever they like, humans or no.
They will 100% stalk and eat people. Anything that moves = food. Seals or carrion or garbage are usually just easier food.
fuqdisshite t1_j6fzzik wrote
the point is that if you are ever ANYWHERE and you see a polar bear watching you, you are now food. they do not waste energy following something that will not provide a source of food. obviously this photog is prepared, maybe a snowmobile sitting behind him, but this is the exception, not the rule.
Sparrowbuck t1_j6g0vfj wrote
He was in a little boat. This is actually from a really nice photograph book
fuqdisshite t1_j6g200s wrote
got it.
as a lover of the cold two of my bucket list items are the ice caps.
KuroOni t1_j6g2fqp wrote
Well, as it turns out, from a quick google search (an actual expert might jump in and correct me because as we all know google is not a cery reliable scientifically accurate source). Polar bears do in fact avoid humans when possible so my statement is indeed true, according to the same sources, they would rather hunt what they are used to hunt aka seals because they run less, they fight less, they look less intimidating and less "alien" than us humans.
Due to human activities and climate change, they are sometimes forced to take more risks by going close to humans to get food but they still prefer to keep their distance unless they really need food.
So no they don't just jump at anything that moves unless they are desperate. It is similar with a lot of other predators as well, they try to avoid people too.
SirGlenn t1_j6fvaz3 wrote
I heard my dog barking like insane mad, I ran out my back door and my face was a foot away from a black bear's face: I slammed my door on the black bear, went around the corner in my kitchen, looked out the window as the black bear ran fast as a black bear can run, into the woods: a polar bear would have made me, his lunch.
bogdanbiv t1_j6f7rqc wrote
No safehouse will provide you with such an angle. Maybe a boat?
But even in a boat this is stupidly dangerous
Dwight- t1_j6i0t1v wrote
The picture won the National Geographic prize out of 7,000 other contenders and a $10,000 prizeâŠ
Never mind billions, imagine 10k being the prize! Nowhere near enough!
Tigerbait2780 t1_j6eo6lz wrote
Then you donât understand how big of a number a billion is
KuroOni t1_j6ewca4 wrote
Oh no I do, but I also understand the value of my life.
Tigerbait2780 t1_j6ex4qf wrote
YeahâŠsorry, but people who say that donât understand how big a billion is.
I mean I get it, you can pretend like thereâs a list of things you would and wouldnât do for billions of dollars for the memes, but at the end of the day anyone seriously offered it would take it regardless of what they think theyâd do hypothetically.
Weâre talking everyone youâve ever cared about and everyone you ever could care about could be financially set for life and retire immediately, and youâd still have hundreds of millions of dollars to help the charities or causes of your choice. Youâd take a pic of a polar bear for that and frankly nothing you say on the internet is going to convince me otherwise lmao
chewy201 t1_j6f0dra wrote
Can't spend it if you're dead. So it doesn't mater just how big a billion is as 1,000,000,000 is as useful as 1 to a dead man. That billion will also still be right where the dead man left it, in the middle of a frozen wasteland if not at the bottom on the ocean making it still worthless to your next of kin or anyone else.
Tigerbait2780 t1_j6f56sk wrote
What a bizarre set of assumptions and mental gymnastics to avoid the obvious lmao.
But regardless, if you think someone was going to hand you a billion dollars in the middle of the arctic you DEFINITELY donât understand how much a billion dollars is lmfao, so at least we confirmed that much
cyanraichu t1_j6gfqtj wrote
Bro, you don't take your money with you to the grave. All the money in the world ain't worth my life.
Tigerbait2780 t1_j6kux2w wrote
Giving financial security to everyone I care about and ever could care about forever along with having hundreds of millions of dollars to give to causes I care most about is most definitely worth my life. And frankly I think anyone who feels otherwise is being unbelievably selfish, but thatâs just me.
cyanraichu t1_j6l8k76 wrote
That's fair but your earlier comment was "you don't understand how much a million is", not "you should be more altruistic".
People know it's a lot of money.
Also, assuming one went through with that - and you're imo overestimating the courage and selflessness of humans, plus I disagree with your assertion that they're bad people if they don't literally die in this scenario, but I digress - IF you went through with that you'd have to have all the legal stuff set up first to make sure the money went where you want it, not just got taken away because "well you're dead now, that sucks".
Tigerbait2780 t1_j6ldg4w wrote
No thatâs what Iâm saying!! Itâs BILLIONS with a B, not millions. I know itâs like âyeah thatâs a lot of money, millions billions whateverâ but thatâs because you really understand how big of a number it really is, itâs hard thing to grasp
And I feel like weâre just being pedantic now, I shouldnât have to qualify it with âif all the legal stuff is sortedâ, it should be understood that no oneâs risking their life for billions of dollars on a handshake. Like, what are we even doing here? This is getting silly.
cyanraichu t1_j6ll7ur wrote
You just totally ignored the entire main point of my comment, like didn't touch on it even a little bit, so yeah, definitely getting silly
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