Python vs. Alligator 99
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."
Don't RTFA (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Don't RTFA (Score:1)
Re:Don't RTFA (Score:5, Informative)
Olioliolioooooo! (Score:1)
Methinks mayhaps (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Methinks mayhaps (Score:5, Funny)
I seriously thought it was a comparison between Python and some scripting language I'd never heard of called Alligator.
I need to get out to the swamp more.
Re:Methinks mayhaps (Score:2)
FoxNews? (Score:2, Funny)
Oh wait, I see it's under the "It's funny. Laugh." Category.
Re:FoxNews? (Score:1, Informative)
Aymen to that.
Fox News recently argued successfully in court that they had a right to lie and distort the news.
http://www.relfe.com/media_can_legally_lie.html [relfe.com]
Re:FoxNews? (Score:2)
Re:FoxNews? (Score:2)
Fox News? You're using that as a source?
CNN [cnn.com] has it as well. That's where I first saw it.
FalconToilets (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Toilets (Score:2, Funny)
In Soviet Russia, animals eat you!!
Don't forget, humans are on the food menu too. (Score:2)
Gator tail is on human's menu also.
FalconSome just need to watch what they eat... (Score:2)
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.
Falconsnopes says yes (Score:5, Informative)
http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/snakegator
Re:snopes says yes (Score:1, Troll)
Re:snopes says yes (Score:2)
Re:snopes says yes (Score:2)
David is a "programmer" and the snopes site has become so popular recently that it would be stupid for them to *not* do something like this.
Used to be that Dave would email me privately, but now, no. All that smarty-pants, TV, radio stuff made him into some bigshot bigywig. [/Moe]
Pffft (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Pffft (Score:2)
Ask any scientician!
Book? (Score:2)
When the Aligator vs Python match is decided we'll segway to the Godzilla vs. Mothra [amazon.com] match and find out which contestants will vie for the championship round!
Re:Pffft (Score:1)
Now that's what you call.... (Score:5, Funny)
biting off more than you can chew.
Re:Now that's what you call.... (Score:1)
Re:Now that's what you call.... (Score:1)
Coming up next on Fox... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Coming up next on Fox... (Score:1)
Re:Coming up next on Fox... (Score:2)
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Oh God. (Score:2)
Can you say "giant octopus eats shark"?
whitespace (Score:1)
Truth is, Slashdot editors were probably just trolling for jokes about a python [python.org] exploding from eating too much whitespace.
Hmm (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Exception (Score:1)
Re:Exception (Score:2)
PyErr_SetString(PyExc_OverflowError, "Gator overflow in digestion buffer");
Re:Hmm (Score:2)
Dunno, but it obviously dumped core.
More pictures (Score:5, Informative)
http://www.tfkitchen.com/totalfark/gator1.jpg [tfkitchen.com]
http://www.tfkitchen.com/totalfark/gator2.jpg [tfkitchen.com]
Looks like Python had a core dump (Score:5, Funny)
Oblig. Dilbert (Score:4, Funny)
There's more to science than hurting animals... but, frankly, it's the part that I like best.
Re:Why? (Score:2)
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
Re:Why? (Score:1)
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.
enterprise (Score:2)
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.
FalconRe:enterprise (Score:2)
Care for some chili? (Score:2)
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 sau
Re:Care for some chili? (Score:2)
I don't know if you've grown
Alas, they do not truly exist: (Score:2)
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 chil
Re:Why? (Score:1)
> 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, mu
Damn (Score:5, Funny)
Funny? I think not. (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Funny? I think not. (Score:2)
Some folks have a wierd "static" idea of nature (Score:4, Insightful)
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?
Re:Some folks have a wierd "static" idea of nature (Score:3, Insightful)
While you have a good point, it is important to remember that since the rise of human civilization and the spread of our species across the planet the number and rate of invasive species introductions have increased by orders of magnitude. Over geologic time ecosystems get invaded by a new species and reach a new equilibrium. Today systems are invaded by dozens of new species in the space of decades.
As to why we should care about a particular species... different people have diverse reasons. But at the v
Some folks have a weird (spelled right) idea of.. (Score:1)
>"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 a
Re:Some folks have a weird (spelled right) idea of (Score:2)
"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 t
Re:Funny? I think not. (Score:2)
Man if you don't think that's hysterical then I don't know what you'll find funny...
Re:Funny? I think not. (Score:2)
I've been taking care of a friend's California Kingsnake for a few months. He's a little ~meter-long constrictor with a cute garter-snake face.
One time when I was feeding him a mouse, he started eating it backwards*. So there's this little snake head, totally expanded to engulf the mouses's ass. The mouse's back legs were splayed out sideways, but he kept trying to get it down for about half an hour before he gave up and went around the other way. The mouse was dead by th
Re:Funny? I think not. (Score:1)
environmental problems (Score:2)
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 [ucdavis.edu] are a big problem. Those who deal with kudzu [ua.edu] in the Southeastern US or zebra mussels [great-lakes.net] in the Great Lakes know this.
Falcon
Re:Fox maintains it's reputation (Score:2)
Oh... the animals. (Score:1)
All right... (Score:2)
Re:All right... (Score:1)
Burmese python (Score:1)
In memorial (Score:3, Funny)
Re:In memorial (Score:2, Funny)
Maybe he was after revenge... [serve.com]
Re:In memorial (Score:2)
I should have pointed this out to you earlier, but your use of "should of" illustrates two possible situations:
- you are 14
- you are ignorant
Being 14 is OK, but if you don't know the difference by the time you're 25 you need remedial reading classes.
I now await the inevitable vitriolic venting of the teenage mindset. Yay.
Lesson about purple worms (Score:2)
If you get swallowed by a purple worm, don't give up hope! Keep on hacking away!
--LWM
What Audiences Really Wanna See... (Score:1, Offtopic)
how embarrassing (Score:3, Funny)
Would you like an after-dinner mint? (Score:3, Funny)
Sounds llike a SCI Fi channel movie (Score:2)
2. Predator
3. Alien v. Predator
4. Crocodile
5. Python
6. Crocodile v. Python
PROFIT!!!!!
Obligatory (Score:2)
Gator
Gator
SNAKE
Its a snake
Python vs. alligator in swamp (Score:2)
Yea, CNN [cnn.com] has it as well.
Falconpython+alligator = explosion! (Score:1)
re: Python vs. Alligator (Score:1)
Pwnd (Score:1)
Python eats alligator??? (Score:1)
let that be a lesson (Score:1)