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Discovery Claims It Will Show a Man Being "Eaten Alive" By an Anaconda
An anonymous reader writes Have you ever wished that you could watch a man be eaten alive by an anaconda from the comfort of your own home? The Discovery Channel is betting that the answer is yes with their upcoming special, Eaten Alive. The channel says wildlife filmmaker Paul Rosolie will don a custom-built snake-proof suit, and go inside a live anaconda. They've even released a teaser. It's unclear what scientific conundrum will be solved in the process of feeding Paul to the snake, or how he plans to get out.
Now I can literally watch another formerly decent channel turn to shit.
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There is no way for the Anaconda to survive this. There is no good research that can come from actions like these and the Discovery channel has really reached a new low. Used to love hard-facts documentary channels but now it's just hype and reality tv rubbish.
The channel isn't about learning anymore. Just TV's version of clickbait (advertising, probably misleading, to draw in gullible folks).
than watching Slashdot get devoured by BETA.
This is likely just a publicity stunt. And the they can continue the UFO, ghost-hunting, alternative history and auction shows as before. I stopped my Discovery subscription years ago when they stopped being a science channel.
Discovery, tlc and animal planet have been taken over by reality shows and ancient aliens. It's not like its news that there programming has gone down hill.
They have a comedy show coming called: "Ow! My Balls!"
It'll be broadcast opposite ABC's version - "America's Funniest Home Videos"
My anaconda don't want none unless you got buns, hon!
How are they gonna get him out again? Cut the snake open?
How about giving the beast some real food and/or just leave it alone?
Or film it from a distance and watch it eat some of its natural prey.
Isn't that what discovery channel usually does?
And, btw, AFAIK boa constrictors - which include anacondas - prefer their prey not breathing anymore. And they don't really care if it's bottled air you're breathing or not. They constrict you 'till you stop breathing. Hence the name. Duh.
To be honest, I kinda hope this snake teaches the guy a lesson and get's away with it. Now *that* would be some news. :-)
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Discovery is crap for years. I remember it was OK long long ago.
I've already had all of this sort of thing I could take with this horrifying video of a man being eaten alive excruciatingly slowly by an arctic fox. (NSFW)
http://youtu.be/43dAN0C4J_0
You are welcome on my lawn.
And some people wonder why I don't have cable-TV service.
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I remember watching Discovery as a kid and it was actually interesting and somewhat educational.
Now you get Duck Dynasty and the likes. Disgraceful.
How's he gonna get out?
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It's spectacles like this which have the potential to harm or kill an animal for the sake of entertainment that makes me side with PETA on occasion. Otherwise PETA is too radical for me. There is no science in this.
Skip Discovery and learn more from about anacondas from a music video parody:
http://www.collegehumor.com/vi...
Sure not all the facts are correct, but still more accurate than Discovery.
Interns are snake food.
Has anyone mentioned yet that this sounds like a stunningly poor idea?
I'm less disgusted by the people responsible for this than I am by the people who are going to tune in to watch it, but not by much.
that it turned out that the anaconda had a fondness for bread products, and would not eat anything without at least some in.
The handler turned to the director, and said 'My anaconda don't want none unless she's got buns hun'.
Discovery Exec:In its early years, the channel's focus centered on educational programming in the form of cultural and wildlife documentaries, and science and historical specials. It also broadcast some Soviet programming during this time, including the news program Vremya. In 1988, the channel premiered the nightly program World Monitor. In 1988, we debuted an annual programming stunt called Shark Week, the week-long event eventually gained in popularity starting in the 1990s and continues to be shown each summer on the channel to this day. Fast forward to 2014 and, im sorry to say this but we appear to be flat out of original ideas. We sound probably just start shuttering the doors and handing out pink slips becau....
breathless intern rushes through the door: A SNAKE!!!!
Exec:....excuse...me?
Intern: WE feed a camera man to a snake...or talent...or have talent outside but we feed someone to a snake and record it, for television.
Exec: Jesus Christ on a crutch....thats just dumb enough to work...but how does he survive the snake?
Casting director: Snake..proof...suit? Exec:: kid you just saved the season. at least, until we get the rights to honey boo boo.
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That's the weirdest Slashdot story I've ever seen. (Also, pretending to be food is not nice to the Anaconda.)
And no I don't mean "what next" as far as what the discovery channel will do, I mean what next after TV? Seriously, we're out of ideas for movies and shows, obviously. People love TV so much, why not just combine it with something important, like school? So rather than sit around watching a bunch of desperate idiots attempt to "entertain" us with some new show as ridiculous as this one, broadcast stuff that teaches people things. Remember that show "E.R."? So many people watched it. They could have thrown in just 1 medical lesson per show and the general population of the US would know a good bit more about how to how to help themselves in a medical situation.
It's called "The Discovery Channel", but if they show us a man being eaten by a large snake, what is the discovery there? This reminds me of that advertizement for that unicorn at the circus from the early 80's. But in the advertizement here that I saw, they never show the man going into the snake's mouth or anything. He's in a thick black rubber suit. My guess is that all the audience will be shown is that the snake won't eat the man in those conditions.
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So they fired Kari Byron.
And now they are showing the poop shoot of a snake?
Man... they're on a roll.
What version of anaconda are they using?
It sounds to astonishingly outrageous that one has to expect that it is simply a variant of the old joke about the 'Man eating chicken': Sounds like 'Man-eating chicken', but is actually 'Man, eating chicken'.
is that the Discovery Channel is directly competing with Maury Povich for sleaze.
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this is wrong on too many levels to even think of, so i won't watch it, reccommend watching it or the dicovery channel in future.
The downfall of Discovery Channel was a main reason I "cut the cord" about 2 years ago. They use to be one of my go-to channels when I had some free time. After the success of the crab fishing show (which names annoyingly escapes me right now), they basically switched direction and turned themselves into a reality tv channel.
On the bright side, I am saving $1020+/year for not having cable.
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When you've already got a whole week dedicated to them?
"Now, I doubt any of you would prefer a rolled up newspaper as a weapon against a dictator or a criminal intruder."
Many people will complain about this. I initially thought along the same lines as many of the above posters when reading the blurb about what's about to happen - and also think it's terrible. What will happen, though, is the extremity and sleaziness also strikes enough interest that people _will watch it_, even if they hate Discovery channel while doing so. They'll get the viewers. They'll get attention. It'll be passed around. They surely know already that they have a reputation dive akin to GT Advanced's stock dive, so when you're deemed a channel with momentum diving downward so quickly I suppose they thought along the lines of: Embrace It...there are enough people who eat this shit up that it'll likely be their best ratings in recent memory.
Freedom of the press, I mean.
This is not what it's for.
Here's the way I figure it. If the man survives, it's homicide. If the man suffers serious injuries (you, know, from being crushed by a giant snake), it's felony maiming (or whatever it's called in whatever non-jurisdiction they're planning to do this). If he survives without harm, it's reckless endangerment. If the snake is injured or dies, it's animal cruelty.
I'd say Discovery has now truly jumped the shark, except snakes can't exactly jump, and aren't sharks.
As long as they don't prevent the snake from constricting him to death and letting the snake digest him everything should be fine.
I hope they get arrested.
I remember a year or two ago, Discovery kicked off Shark Week with some fake documentary about how Megalodon might still be alive and swimming.
I'm guessing that's exactly what this will be. It'll be presented as a doc but obviously fake. There's no way they can get away with willingly killing a snake for entertainment.
everyone happy.
Your supposed to help people understand animals, not make them fear them you a$$ hats. I think I would rather watch WWE, it's more believable than discovery!
That is all. GIS if you don't understand.
I'm just trying to guess what his nickname will be when he comes out the other end of the snake.
(Although I'm guessing that they will be cutting the poor snake open instead)
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There's only one way to test that.
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If he goes in with a chainsaw he should be able to get out like in Sharknado.
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If there was ever a need to let the dogs of peta run wild, it's this. This is disgustingly shameful. It serves no purpose other than to abuse a snake for entertainment.
Nothing can be gained from this. We already know the snakes can eat a person. We can already send far less obstrusive sensors safely through a snake if we really need to see what's going on in there.
c'mon a show in which ted nugent would kill and eat an anaconda before our eyes would be more on the up and up than this crap.
Gonna get eaten by this snake.
Next week we'll be seeing this in the latest Cracked.com list of "BS Viral Stories You Fell For".
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