Worlds largest snake caught...

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: ISO
Good god ... what the hell did that thing eat. :Q

3 or 4 dogs a month.



Anyway, it's all over the news now . . . just google it . . . even Timesonline.

Could be real . . . could be exaggerated . . . I'd hate to be the one who gets to measure it.

 

[DaWhim]

cook that snake...gonna be yums

 

[waggy]

wow.

I have a few ball pythons, red tail boa and gardner snakes (they are cool. they actually do stuff!).

but that one is huge! be cool to have heh.

 

[waggy]

silly dp

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
Bulls**t! This is going to turn out to be a hoax. A 49 foot snake would be like discovering a 15 foot tall human being. It's so far beyond anything ever seen before that it defies logic.

i believe it.

those reticulated pythons can get pretty darn big. 49ft wouldn't surprise me in the least.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Originally posted by: Mutilator
What I was getting at is that if some story was posted on the net about a giant squid found on a beach everybody would cry BS too until they realized that they were real... they just havn't seen them alive in their natural habitat. Perhaps this snake is real too and it hasn't been seen either because it's a great hider... or it ate everybody that did happen to find it. You don't live that long and grow that big without either being very smart or very lucky.

The difference is that a giant squid, while difficult to believe, is an entirely new species. If all you knew were chihuahuas and beagles, the first time seeing a great dane might be a bit of a shock. If you only saw gekkos and skinks the first encounter with a saltwater crocodile would no doubt be quite startling. But the size variations there are easily explainable once it's established that these are new, entirely different species. That's not the case here. If a person claimed to have found a 50 foot snake of a heretofore unknown species, I *might* swallow it. If a person shows up with a snake of a common, well-known species that's nearly twice the size of any previously seen, my bullshit detector starts beeping.

 

[LordJezo]

hi

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt

Originally posted by: Mutilator
What I was getting at is that if some story was posted on the net about a giant squid found on a beach everybody would cry BS too until they realized that they were real... they just havn't seen them alive in their natural habitat. Perhaps this snake is real too and it hasn't been seen either because it's a great hider... or it ate everybody that did happen to find it. You don't live that long and grow that big without either being very smart or very lucky.

The difference is that a giant squid, while difficult to believe, is an entirely new species. If all you knew were chihuahuas and beagles, the first time seeing a great dane might be a bit of a shock. If you only saw gekkos and skinks the first encounter with a saltwater crocodile would no doubt be quite startling. But the size variations there are easily explainable once it's established that these are new, entirely different species. That's not the case here. If a person claimed to have found a 50 foot snake of a heretofore unknown species, I *might* swallow it. If a person shows up with a snake of a common, well-known species that's nearly twice the size of any previously seen, my bullshit detector starts beeping.

You give us too much credit, as if there is no unexplored land on the planet or something.

If its possible for a snake to become 50' long, then I am sure there have been and will be 50' snakes.. it just takes time.

Aren't snakes a little different in regards to say humans or dogs where genetics clearly play a role in size? Won't a snake keep getting bigger and bigger until it dies?

 

[GarlicBreath]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/indonesia/Story/0,2763,1113948,00.html

Republika quoted a keeper at the zoo, Rohmad, as saying that when the unnamed snake was captured, in Jambi province on Sumatra in mid-2002, it was 19m long.

Four metres reportedly had to be severed after a rotten deer was found undigested in its stomach.

What the heck? They cut off four meters of snake and its still alove? I smell BS.

 

[cliftonite]

Originally posted by: GarlicBreath
http://www.guardian.co.uk/indonesia/Story/0,2763,1113948,00.html

Republika quoted a keeper at the zoo, Rohmad, as saying that when the unnamed snake was captured, in Jambi province on Sumatra in mid-2002, it was 19m long.

Four metres reportedly had to be severed after a rotten deer was found undigested in its stomach.

What the heck? They cut off four meters of snake and its still alove? I smell BS.

LOL alove?

 

[Carbo]

Clearly, this is another hoax. 50' snake! C'mon, you fools. PT Barnum was right, obviously.

 

[z0mb13]

the jungles in indonesia are pretty dense u know... people dont venture inside it..
its probably close to the amazon forest, it is highly probable that the snake is not seen by human

 

[Medellon]

I agree. The probability that this snake could reach this length is extremely low if impossible. Where could this thing be hiding all these years? This is not the Indonesia from 200 or even 100 years ago where there was still much of the jungle unexplored. I would say that 49 ft. is about double the length of the average reticulated python and that is hard to swallow(pun intended). Next we'll be seeing 40 ft. great white sharks...wait a minute...we already have, in the movie JAWS!

 

[screw3d]

It's very possible. The world's largest snakes have always been reticulated pythons. There's at least a case where one was found half-swallowing a human being.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Originally posted by: z0mb13
the jungles in indonesia are pretty dense u know... people dont venture inside it..
its probably close to the amazon forest, it is highly probable that the snake is not seen by human

Not nearly as dense as the heads of the morons who believe tripe like this. Repeat after me: "Nearly TWICE the size as the previously largest snake ever found." Now go ahead and scramble for your search engines and name a single animal, JUST ONE, where the record size doubled overnight in the last 200 years. JUST ONE species where one animal was found to be twice the size of the previous record. JUST ONE.

 

[Amorphus]

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt

Originally posted by: z0mb13
the jungles in indonesia are pretty dense u know... people dont venture inside it..
its probably close to the amazon forest, it is highly probable that the snake is not seen by human

Not nearly as dense as the heads of the morons who believe tripe like this. Repeat after me: "Nearly TWICE the size as the previously largest snake ever found." Now go ahead and scramble for your search engines and name a single animal, JUST ONE, where the record size doubled overnight in the last 200 years. JUST ONE species where one animal was found to be twice the size of the previous record. JUST ONE.

Fallacies of logic.
when did we say that this was because of "evolution"?

it's not like we had documented every snake in Indochina and watched them get bigger and bigger through the years. For all we know, 50-foot snakes have been around since before Your Mom jokes existed, and we just never discovered them until now.

 

[MustISO]

What a silly way to try and boost tourism.

 

[Lucky]

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt

Originally posted by: z0mb13
the jungles in indonesia are pretty dense u know... people dont venture inside it..
its probably close to the amazon forest, it is highly probable that the snake is not seen by human

Not nearly as dense as the heads of the morons who believe tripe like this. Repeat after me: "Nearly TWICE the size as the previously largest snake ever found." Now go ahead and scramble for your search engines and name a single animal, JUST ONE, where the record size doubled overnight in the last 200 years. JUST ONE species where one animal was found to be twice the size of the previous record. JUST ONE.

TWICE the size? Really? According to Guiness and several other sources the largest previous was 33 feet. To go from 33 to 49 is barely 50%.

 

[IGBT]

...and they feed it dogs?? muwhaha...

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Originally posted by: Lucky

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt

Originally posted by: z0mb13
the jungles in indonesia are pretty dense u know... people dont venture inside it..
its probably close to the amazon forest, it is highly probable that the snake is not seen by human

Not nearly as dense as the heads of the morons who believe tripe like this. Repeat after me: "Nearly TWICE the size as the previously largest snake ever found." Now go ahead and scramble for your search engines and name a single animal, JUST ONE, where the record size doubled overnight in the last 200 years. JUST ONE species where one animal was found to be twice the size of the previous record. JUST ONE.

TWICE the size? Really? According to Guiness and several other sources the largest previous was 33 feet. To go from 33 to 49 is barely 50%.

If you're going to do the math, at least have enough of a brain to do it right. From the article:



The Guinness Book of World Records lists the longest captured snake as a 9.75m (32ft) reticulated python found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi in 1912. The heaviest is a 182.76kg Burmese python in Illinois, US.

Republika quoted a keeper at the zoo, Rohmad, as saying that when the unnamed snake was captured, in Jambi province on Sumatra in mid-2002, it was 19m long.

Four metres reportedly had to be severed after a rotten deer was found undigested in its stomach.



19 meters as opposed to 9.75. That's within a foot of being TWICE the size. Now, want to argue about snake anatomy, where a snakes stomach is located and the fact that even by removing that much snake you still would not have gotten to the stomach where the deer was supposedly located. Seriously, if you're dumb enough to believe this story how do you muster the brain power necessary to even find the on/off switch on your computer?

 

[Lucky]

If you're going to do the math, at least have enough of a brain to do it right. From the article:

....

19 meters as opposed to 9.75. That's within a foot of being TWICE the size. Now, want to argue about snake anatomy, where a snakes stomach is located and the fact that even by removing that much snake you still would not have gotten to the stomach where the deer was supposedly located. Seriously, if you're dumb enough to believe this story how do you muster the brain power necessary to even find the on/off switch on your computer?

Several other sources say that the snake is 48-49 feet, or about 15 meters. link to ap article reuters story

times of london

Regardless of what was reportedly severed the confirmed length is 15 meters.

Fragrant Flower breaks the record for the longest snake, which has stood for 91 years, held by a reticulated python of 9.98 metres that was shot in Celebes (now Sulawesi), Indonesia.

I dont need a calculator to see that 14.85 is less than 50% larger than the previous record of 9.98.

 

[tweakmm]

Originally posted by: dwell
How'd that get out of my pants!

Son of a bitch, that was what I was going to respond with when I saw the title.

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt

Originally posted by: Lucky

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt

Originally posted by: z0mb13
the jungles in indonesia are pretty dense u know... people dont venture inside it..
its probably close to the amazon forest, it is highly probable that the snake is not seen by human

Not nearly as dense as the heads of the morons who believe tripe like this. Repeat after me: "Nearly TWICE the size as the previously largest snake ever found." Now go ahead and scramble for your search engines and name a single animal, JUST ONE, where the record size doubled overnight in the last 200 years. JUST ONE species where one animal was found to be twice the size of the previous record. JUST ONE.

TWICE the size? Really? According to Guiness and several other sources the largest previous was 33 feet. To go from 33 to 49 is barely 50%.

If you're going to do the math, at least have enough of a brain to do it right. From the article:



The Guinness Book of World Records lists the longest captured snake as a 9.75m (32ft) reticulated python found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi in 1912. The heaviest is a 182.76kg Burmese python in Illinois, US.

Republika quoted a keeper at the zoo, Rohmad, as saying that when the unnamed snake was captured, in Jambi province on Sumatra in mid-2002, it was 19m long.

Four metres reportedly had to be severed after a rotten deer was found undigested in its stomach.



19 meters as opposed to 9.75. That's within a foot of being TWICE the size. Now, want to argue about snake anatomy, where a snakes stomach is located and the fact that even by removing that much snake you still would not have gotten to the stomach where the deer was supposedly located. Seriously, if you're dumb enough to believe this story how do you muster the brain power necessary to even find the on/off switch on your computer?

if it was 19 meters wouldnt that make the snake like 62 feet? hmm big diffrence from the story saying 40something feet.

i think someone needs to get the story right.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

I hate to say "I told you so." but... Oh wait, I don't hate it at all. You people who believed this obvious BS are among the stupidest people on earth. In fact, you're among the stupidest people on ATOT, which is even worse.

The Story.

Why is it that children will not believe anything told to them by their parents or teachers, but will swallow any obvious crock of s**t when it appears on the internet?

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
I hate to say "I told you so." but... Oh wait, I don't hate it at all. You people who believed this obvious BS are among the stupidest people on earth. In fact, you're among the stupidest people on ATOT, which is even worse.

The Story.

Why is it that children will not believe anything told to them by their parents or teachers, but will swallow any obvious crock of s**t when it appears on the internet?

I think you have convinced everyone here that you are a jackass.

beers to you!