Hills vs. sharks

[rubah]

If you had to make a choice between running uphill from a shark or letting the shark catch you and having to fight it by hand, but the hill was really steep (we'll say a 45° incline) and very tall (fifteen miles tall) and you couldn't stop running for an hour (minimum 10mph) would you rather do the hour run or take your chances with the shark?

(note, if you cannot run for an hour, you will slide down the hill into the tank with the shark. The tank has metal sides you cannot climb out of. You are equipped with yourself and a tree branch)

[loben]

ugh, can I cast magic missle?

[Lucavi Rocks]

Sounds like your only logical move is to go sideways on the hill. I don't see that as an option though! Fighting the shark looks like the eventual outcome whether you try to run fifteen miles uphill or not so it's best to get it over with and shank that guppy with the branch you're going to need to break to get a point.

[Bunny]

Am I a Jet?

[demondude]

I'll seduce the shark and have sex with it we will then sleep together.
whilst sleeping I'll sneak out With nothing lost apart from my dignity.

[rubah]

When you're a jet you're a jet all the way from your first cigarette to your last dying day.
Lucavi, if you can make it for the hour, the hill will level out and you can wait for a helicoptor to rescue you.

if you go sideways, you will slip off the narrow path into another shark tank. without a branch.

[Flying Mullet]

Just to be a technical ass, I wouldn't run away from the shark because I'd die from lack of oxygen running up a mountain that's around 15 miles high (Mt. Everest is around 5.5 miles high).

[rubah]

Yeah I thought about that, but I wanted to make sure that people would have something about as hard as fighting a shark as the other option.

Actually the mountain is 15 miles high. You have to run ~20 something miles to get to the top. (I took the square root of 2 into account!)

[Flying Mullet]

Actually the mountain is 15 miles high. You have to run ~20 something miles to get to the top. (I took the square root of 2 into account!)

You know what's sad? The math nerd in me got excited when reading your initial post and read "You have to run 15 miles up a 45 degree slope." and I proceeded to find out how tall that mountain would be (10.6 miles). Then I re-read your original post and realized that the mountain is 15 miles high, not the slope's length.

[Bunny]

Is the shark aware of your presence? Is it like, waiting for you to fall? Or is there a chance that you would get the drop on it (literally)? If so, shark is easy. If he knows I'm there, I'd wrassle with him anyway. Sounds more fun.

[oddler]

Take my chances with the shark. It's not like I'm bleeding.

[Agent Proto]

This is a lose-lose situation. I'd rather take the quicker way to die and face the shark.

[Quindiana Jones]

I'd walk 50 metres up the hill, then laugh at the stupid shark for not having evolved.

[bipper]

suck my d**********, Ima shark!

hrm, best question evar. I would say I would fight the shake by hand. Grab both gills and snap its neck. Easy peasy punkin squeezey.

[kikimm]

I'm going to try running up that hill.