Worlds largest snake caught...
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/calls repost police
/"Yes, can you please send M4H out here, we have a situation"
/"Yes, we do need him to eat someone"
/"No, please tell him to keep his pants on, there is no hijacking threat here"
/"Thank you"
/"Yes, can you please send M4H out here, we have a situation"
/"Yes, we do need him to eat someone"
/"No, please tell him to keep his pants on, there is no hijacking threat here"
/"Thank you"
GagHalfrunt
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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.
FelixDeCat
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- Aug 4, 2000
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WOW
i dont know what else to say to this one, it's huge, i can't imagine how slow that thing must move though, if it moves quickly it'd be like a scene out of that cheesy movie Anaconda
i dont know what else to say to this one, it's huge, i can't imagine how slow that thing must move though, if it moves quickly it'd be like a scene out of that cheesy movie Anaconda
I would assume it's just as quick as any other large snake... because it has obviously done very well for itself over the years.
GagHalfrunt
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What's that got to do with anything? It's a different species. Giant squid live at extreme depths and are virtually undiscoverable until they die. Snakes cover the earths surface in the billions and their size ranges are as well established as any other common animal. Making the leap from the 30' range to 50' without finding anything in between in thousands of years is about as close as you can come to scientific impossibility. Animal sizes follow a bell curve with the majority of the specimans in a narrow range with fewer and fewer as you get to the freakishly large and freakishly small. Ever see a full grown St Bernard that was 12" long and weighed 2 pounds? Ever see a 15' tall person? Of course not, those sizes are well outside the extremes of those species. There have been thousands upon thousands of reports of 50' snakes being caught in the last couple of hundreds years. Every one has turned out to be a hoax, this one will too.
AMCRambler
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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.
HomeBrewerDude
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- Jan 18, 2001
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How do you know nothing has been found in between in 'thousands' of years? more like just 150 or so years, hardly a sample large enough to get a good estimate of the upper and lower extremes. Bell curves are a theoretical proposition, I owuldn't be supprised to find that in this case, length isn't distributed along a normal curve at all, but something more like a F-distribution, where there is compression below and dialation above the mean. Furthermore, 'Length' in snakes is probably dependent on multiple genes AND environment, so it is entirely possible that there are low frequency occurances of extreme observations.
apoppin
Lifer
Cows eat dogs?!!??!
Now THAT is some mad-cow disease.
And I doubt you'd find it in the surf in Indo . . . I'd be far more worried about visiting the nightclubs there.
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