• fubbernuckin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 months ago

    What I want to know is how on earth you would find it again if you did this. There’s no guarantee that it’ll be in the same spot, right? It can get buried or pushed way downstream or both. I’d believe it if it was like a retention pond or something, but a river?

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      7 months ago

      You’d probably tie a rope to it, very securely, then secure the other end of the rope to a tree or rock or something on the river bank/shore, as low to the ground as possible, then cover the visible section of rope with mud/sticks/branches etc.

      Still no guarantee it wouldn’t break free or be discovered by someone else though

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      7 months ago

      Yeah, if you’ve got the stinger case all packed up, is it really that big a deal to just toss it in the trunk? Maybe they spent the time traveling though, in which case I get it more.

    • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.uk
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      7 months ago

      Are you saying this isn’t a much cooler story? Fun people will genuinely do something less optimal for the chance to be more entertaining, and I think they’re probably right.

    • Clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works
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      7 months ago

      From context I presume that at some universities you may not return to the same dorm room, and so need to pack up your stuff and move out at the end of the school year and then back in later. Universities or nearby businesses must take advantage of this by renting storage space to students.

      I never lived on or near campus so I don’t have any first hand knowledge.

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        7 months ago

        I guess we are talking about the US? That means students rent their dorms not during the breaks, and go back home. Are they forced to go into dorms or can they also just rent an apartment?

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      7 months ago

      If it’s filled with stuff then it’s not filled with air. So it would be less buoyant. But yeah, probably harder to sink than people would guess

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        7 months ago

        Bouyancy is based on how much water is displaced, not amount of air inside the container. 66x12x13=10,296 cubic inches. Fresh water density is about 0.0361 lb/in^3 so that case has to displace at least 372 lb to sink.

        Metric would be better for this but we’re talking about a stinger missile here.