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Longest Snake

Posted by michael on from the soon-to-be-a-made-for-tv-movie dept.

bobbyb0y writes "Here's an article at BBC reporting what could be the longest snake ever caught. You can look at some of its pictures online. Currently on display at a zoo in Indonesia. Its a monster of a python weighing close to 450 kilos and ~15m long. Beat that anaconda. Seems it has developed a nice taste for dogs too!!"

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  1. ATTN: lady Slashdotters by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    There is a snake in my trousers that takes issue with this story.

  2. Fear this by squiggleslash · · Score: 3, Funny

    Ok, huge, long, snakes and William Shatner producing another album, both in the same hour. Are you people trying to provoke all my phobias?

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  3. Scepticism by n9hmg · · Score: 3, Insightful

    While I'm fully prepared to believe that such a snake exists, the submitted photos appear designed to prevent one from verifying the size. In one photo, I could see 20, possibly 30 feet (depending on the size of the people in the photo), with some unknown length off-camera. It's in a zoo! Have wait till it's out in the open, have the veterinarian sedate it, stretch it out, and park a jeep next to it. Barring sedation, a series of snaps taken as it crawls through an open area. These are like a "magician" holding up his hand with two ends of rope hanging from it and calling that proof that the whole rope is rejoined after cutting.
    That said, I expect it's just incompetent journalism, and we'll see solid proof soon.

    Incidentally, is anyone else getting sick of the "500 - internal server error" from /.?

    1. Re:Scepticism by RALE007 · · Score: 3, Informative
      If I remember correctly, it's a very bad idea to attempt to sedate a reptile. Determining proper dosage is near impossible for our sensitive cold blooded friends and the attempt would most likely result in the untimely death of the snake.

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  4. Re:News for nerds. by mfarah · · Score: 5, Funny

    Stuff that...matters?

    Of course it does. This is gonna be a big point in favor for the Python-lovers against the Perl-afficionados: "The largest python ever weighed 447 kilograms - has there EVER been a perl weighing ever 4.47 kg? No? Of course not! Therefore, Python rules. Oh, and by the way, Python eats parrots for snacks!!!!".

    Of course it's stuff that matters.

    (we need to get out more)

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