rant · moment 18 of 19
Private Plane Fears and Fake Survival Statistics
from #296 - Selling Moresby | The Tim Dillon Show · #296
6 min
Tim and Ben discuss fear of the upcoming private plane flight into the rainforest, list off the dangerous local wildlife like funnel web spiders and box jellyfish, and Tim cites a made-up statistic about surviving plane crashes before admitting it's false.
- Tim admits he's scared of private planes and read statistics about them this morning.
- Reading statistics will only make you paranoid—better to ignore the data entirely.
- The ocean sucked them out to sea, which proves nature owns nothing and has no market cap.
- Real fear is about nurture, not nature—Anti-Venom exists so rainforest animals aren't actually dangerous.
- Listing all the deadly creatures in the Daintree: box jellyfish, blue-ringed octopus, stone fish, crocodiles, snakes, spiders.
- Isn't the real danger inequality—would the blue-ringed octopus be nearly as dangerous if it could work?
- Nature doesn't like winners, and humans have won, so nature is always trying to kill successful people.
- Assurance about the private plane: there's a 50 percent chance they'll be okay with a drunk Australian pilot.
- If fate brings them down in a crash in the Australian Outback, that's just their fate and not a big deal.
- The 95 percent survival rate statistic for plane malfunctions is completely made up and never heard before.