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Python vs. Alligator
evil agent writes "Fox News is reporting an incident in Everglades National Park where a python tried to swallow an alligator whole, causing it to explode. A picture of the aftermath is also provided. Scientists say that these python vs. alligator battles are becoming more frequent due to pet owners who discard the nonnative pythons in the Everglades."
Wait for Dave Barry's column on it.
The latest Slashdot meme.
Urrg....crab.....battle!
A slashdotter who didn't build his own computer is like a Jedi who didn't build his own lightsaber.
Perhaps the Alligator should stick to Perl and stay away from Python(s).
Fox News? You're using that as a source?
Oh wait, I see it's under the "It's funny. Laugh." Category.
People by them when they are young and cute... then flush them down the toilet. Some just need to watch what they eat...
http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/snakegator
We all know the ultimate battle is Bear v. Shark, anyway (a great book regardless).
Every post I make begins with the assumption P=~P.
biting off more than you can chew.
Winner of Python versus Alligator advances to take on Giant Squid!
Stories about extreme animal fights are making headlines? Slashdot has turned into digg.com
:-)
Can you say "giant octopus eats shark"?
-William Brendel
Wonder what exception got thrown for that one...
Disconnect and self-destruct, one bullet at a time.
More pictures of the "snakey explosion" available here:
http://www.tfkitchen.com/totalfark/gator1.jpg
http://www.tfkitchen.com/totalfark/gator2.jpg
def eatGator(gator):
....try:
........digestGator(gator)
....except:
........dumpCore(gator)
........sys.exit(1)
But first, why oh why is this headed with "science"?
There's more to science than hurting animals... but, frankly, it's the part that I like best.
And there I was thinking Alligator was some sort of new programming language.
Maybe it's just that most slashdotters don't read articles, but I did read the article and it seems an environmental problem of some concern.
I'm going to assume that most of us, reading the title and then clicking "Read more..." like a good slashdotter, came here expecting a showdown (or what passes for it in the comment sections) between programming languages.
...I know I did.
>> Standing on head makes smile of frown, but rest of face also upside down.
It's about the movies man.
When the Aligator vs Python match is decided we'll segway to the Godzilla vs. Mothra match and find out which contestants will vie for the championship round!
Blessed are the pessimists, for they have made backups. -- 0 1 My two bits
Stomach Overflow
May Peace Prevail On Earth
Who gave the alligator pop rocks and coke?
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Gator- Python.html
This is why we should not buy non-indiginous pets and the release them into the wild.
The toad can't burp - and for some reason can't fart either, so it swells up and eventually explodes. --Anonymous Coward
Poor Eric Idle *Sniff* He should of realised he couldn't swallow an alligator whole
The only things certain in war are Propaganda and Death. You can never be sure which is which though
"This is already in the regular news sites" .... as much of a fine reputable unbiased news source as fox is . ..
Well . because normally people on slashdot are not (Um.. how can i put this politely )"On the same level" as fox news aficionados , so we are likely to miss it out
And stories about Giant animal battles are the stuff of nerd fights
EG: Star destroyer Vs Enterprise
The only things certain in war are Propaganda and Death. You can never be sure which is which though
I think you mean:
PyErr_SetString(PyExc_OverflowError, "Gator overflow in digestion buffer");
Just remember - this contains an important lesson for adventuring in the bottom level of the dungeon:
If you get swallowed by a purple worm, don't give up hope! Keep on hacking away!
--LWM
> Star destroyer Vs Enterprise
Now, that's an interesting one. On the one hand, the star destroyer is MUCH larger (even than the Galaxy-class Enterprise D). On the other hand, the Enterprise has a competent crew of protagonists onboard.
Cut that out, or I will ship you to Norilsk in a box.
It's as if there weren't such thing as invasive species before humans came along to transplant them.
Seriously, what you have there is an example of evolution in action. The snakey equivalent of a Darwin award. At some point over the next half-milennium, a new ecological balance will stabilize between indigenous gators and feral snakes. Either one will be the top predator, or they'll stay mutual predators, but with a better appreciation of "don't bite off more than you can chew". Meanwhile all the other beasties will match their habits to the new predator's methods - or die out, as it always has been and always shall.
What's so special about eg: "endangered woodstorks" that makes their species worthy to get a free pass on evolution?
Just imagine, you're an alligator, and you got owned by a snake. It's not bad enough that it ate you, but now you're hanging out there on display for the whole swamp to see.
It's wafer thin...
1. Alien
2. Predator
3. Alien v. Predator
4. Crocodile
5. Python
6. Crocodile v. Python
PROFIT!!!!!
Gator
Gator
Gator
SNAKE
Its a snake
I am Bennett Haselton! I am Bennett Haselton!
Truth is, Slashdot editors were probably just trolling for jokes about a python exploding from eating too much whitespace.
Yea, CNN has it as well.
FalconShould there be a Law?
Yea, more people need to eat gator tail. It's about the best meat I've had. That and wild hog.
I can see it now, instead of people complaining about how a gator ate their dog they'll be complaining that a python ate it.
FalconShould there be a Law?
Gator tail is on human's menu also.
FalconShould there be a Law?
Homeland security had better outlaw either pythons or alligators on planes otherwise terrorists might use them to make binary weapons that can't be detected by traditional explosive sniffing devices.
Maybe it's just that most slashdotters don't read articles, but I did read the article and it seems an environmental problem of some concern.
Invasive species are a big problem. Those who deal with kudzu in the Southeastern US or zebra mussels in the Great Lakes know this.
FalconShould there be a Law?
A star destroyer would below the crap out of the enterprise, A, B, C, D or E. Any enterprise is completely outclassed by something the size of a star destroyer.
I don't know given enough Star class Enterprises, they can destroy a Gates, er Borg, Cube.
FalconShould there be a Law?
Well "Python vs. Alligator" doesn't mean much on Slashdot. How about: "Python vs. Cup of Coffee," "Python vs. Red Gemstone" or "Python vs. Oyster Secretion."
> A star destroyer would below the crap out of the enterprise, A, B, C, D or E. Any enterprise
> is completely outclassed by something the size of a star destroyer.
Sure, in terms of hardware. The size ratio is something like a thousand to one, and the firepower ratio is pretty unballanced too. But the star destroyer (unless it happens to be Vader's flagship, and even then to a large extent) is run pretty much entirely by bumbling dolts who don't understand the first thing about running a starship, much less a military exercise.
They couldn't even handle the Millennium Falcon when it pulled simple tricks like hiding in an asteroid field or behind the backside of the star destroyer's own control deck, and that's *with* Vader's guidance. What makes you think they're going to be able to handle a ship (any ship) run by intelligent protagonists who know how to recalibrate deflector relays and reverse tachyon fields? Heck, Spock and Scotty could probably take on the average star destroyer (sans Vader) in a shuttlecraft, with a tricorder, a pair of hand phasers, and some spare superconductor wire. It would seem impossible, sure, but then the Empire's bumbling admirals would stand around looking puzzled and giving stupid orders like "Track them!" and making inane comments like "No ship that small has a cloaking device!", and meanwhile the protagonists would be crawling through ductwork, hacking into the central computer, mapping out a path to the bridge, and improvising weapons out of parts stolen from access panels during the process of patching into the ship's power, weapons, and life support systems.
Cut that out, or I will ship you to Norilsk in a box.
Quetzlzacatenango
I don't recall having heard of Quetzlzacatenango peppers and being a chilihead, the hotter the better, I googled "Quetzlzacatenango" but didn't get any results so I tried Alta Vista. It returned more than a thousand results and looking at some of them I saw they all mentioned "simpson". So I included "NOT simpson" and it returned 42, then when I included "NOT homer" it didn't return any. I tried it on Lycos and supprised I come across "WARNING! Do not try Dave's total insanity hot sauce." Now that's the HOTTEST sauce I've ever had, and I LOVE it!
This brings up something I find weird, I like to go into shops that sell peppers and hot sauce, and I'll ask what's the hottest sauce they sale. Not one tyme have I been told Dave's is the hottest even though they'll have it on a shelf. So I'll ask to try what they say is hottest and not one is as hot. I wonder if Quetzlzacatenango peppers are what is used, and if so if I can get ahold of some seeds. I'd love to grow some.
FalconShould there be a Law?
Let me be the first to say...Pwnd!
What was John Cleese doing in the Everglades? Oh, wait...
This sig is false.
..of everything. Why is this idiot modified insightful? It's the OPPOSITE of insightful. It's ignoring fundamental differences between invasive species in nature and invasive species killing off things due to human idiocy.
>"What's so special about eg: "endangered woodstorks" that makes their species worthy to get a free pass on evolution?" I'll tell you: they were fine before WE came along, and as the top species on the planet, it is OUR job to steward all our fellows and not kill them through idiocy and greed. "It's evolution in action," is the same Might-Makes-Right bullshit that wise people have been fighting since the development of language. It'd be evolution in action if I cut your fucking gonads off and fed them to you, right? Let's do that too!
And the same arrogance that you display above is what's the greatest single threat to OUR species right now. Your same idiotic bullshit is currently melting the ice caps, flooding New Orleans, and building suburbs in clearcut forests that are full of deer ticks.
O~ Him that studies revenge keeps his own wounds green. -- Francis Bacon
I've noticed that the more nutty and passionate ideologies usually contain people railing against their own opposite belief. So socialism contains patrician elitists, and ecology contains people who refuse to consider human action as natural.
"As the top species on the planet, it is OUR job to steward all our fellows" - said the Victorian zookeper! Your human-chauvinism amuses me. Other species are their own selves. They aren't anthropomorphisms with "rights", anymore than they grant each other rights, and they aren't wards of humanity. We use them, they use us, everybody uses what or whomever is convenient and goes about their own business. Evolution eventually fits these uses together into an ecosystem of mutual utility. This is the natural way of interactions between species!
I though it might be something like that.
I don't know if you've grown them, but chile peppers are actually fairly easy to grow. As long as they get lots of sun, warm temperatures, and moderate watering they do great;-)
Yea, I know. I love gardening and other than herbs my favorite things to grow are peppers, and tomatoes. I've grown peppers from bell peppers, black, chocolate, green, red, and yellow; to habaneros, to Thai Hot peppers. I eat them raw, stuff them, and use them for sauces. Anahiem chili peppers are really good for stuffing like Mexican Relleno, besides gardening I love cooking especially what I grow in my garden.
FalconShould there be a Law?
let that be a lesson to you pythons out there-- BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR!