The internet is filled with random hypothetical questions and situations that can have people talking and debating for hours sometimes. It’s what so many people do when they have a lot of time on their hands.
That appears to be the case for rapper Young Thug, who’s currently incarcerated at Fulton County Jail in Atlanta while awaiting trial on multiple charges related to a “wide-ranging RICO case,” according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Billboard.
And apparently, he was recently thinking about swimming. Specifically, he was wondering how far a human, like Michael Phelps, could swim to shore from the middle of the ocean, so he tweeted at the swimming GOAT to get an answer.
(It’s worth noting that it’s entirely possible someone else used Young Thug’s account to ask this question.)
I'm talking with my roommate and we're wondering if you could swim 100 miles from the middle of the ocean back to shore – @MichaelPhelps 🏊♂️
— Young Thug ひ (@youngthug) August 31, 2022
One hundred miles from shore in the middle of the ocean seems like an awfully difficult challenge, but Phelps responded and said he does, in fact, think he could make it back to land.
Yeah. I think I could make it 🏊♂️ https://t.co/Iap6tXKH44
— Michael Phelps (@MichaelPhelps) August 31, 2022
But how long would it take? That’s a different story, and, as Phelps noted, this would not be a fun or enjoyable swim. This would be a grueling task with not great consequences if it goes poorly.
Talking to @coach_bowman …. We think it’d take 50ish hours… and it wouldn’t be pleasant!😳🙄 https://t.co/DWtMljtYJ9
— Michael Phelps (@MichaelPhelps) September 1, 2022
Fifty hours! Yeah, sounds far from pleasant.
But thanks to Young Thug and Phelps, the internet now has a better understanding of a question it didn’t know it wanted the answer to.
