Young Thug tweeted Michael Phelps from jail to ask the most absurd swimming question

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.)

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.

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.

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.