Author Topic: Homeland/Interior Snake Subjugation (Read 21625 times)

roo_ster · « **on:** January 31, 2012, 12:19:47 PM »

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/289718/first-kill-all-burmese-pythons-jonah-goldberg

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/environment/story/2012-01-30/pythons-florida-everglades/52893342/1

http://mediagallery.usatoday.com/Pythons+strangling+the+Everglades/G3288,A11365

Invasive Burmese pythons are eating the Everglades free of other wild animals:

Some lefty dipshinola will likely propose "constrictor condom" program, but the author proposes a bounty system.

Do read the comments to the post.

roo_ster · « **Reply #1 on:** January 31, 2012, 12:26:06 PM »

Update:

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/289724/these-boots-were-made-slaughter-jonah-goldberg

Harold Tuttle · « **Reply #2 on:** January 31, 2012, 12:55:29 PM »

Acouple o years ago, they found a 12 foot python under a deck in Gaitherburg Maryland

They think it was holing up for the winter under a house in a crawlspace, and spending the summers eating pets.

Harold Tuttle · « **Reply #3 on:** January 31, 2012, 12:57:39 PM »

how many snaken nuggets can you mechanically separate from a 20 foot python?

Ron · « **Reply #4 on:** January 31, 2012, 12:59:10 PM »

What caliber for a twelve foot python?

Where do you aim? The head?

wmenorr67 · « **Reply #5 on:** January 31, 2012, 01:01:59 PM »

Good question because some people value the head for certain items.

But also think of the amount of food in a 150# snake. Not a lot of extra crap. Mainly all muscle to begin with.

Tallpine · « **Reply #6 on:** January 31, 2012, 01:53:23 PM »

Transplant them to DC

makattak · « **Reply #7 on:** January 31, 2012, 02:10:46 PM »

Quote from: Tallpine on January 31, 2012, 01:53:23 PM

Transplant them to DC

Thank you but we have plenty of snakes in this area already.

Ron · « **Reply #8 on:** January 31, 2012, 02:20:47 PM »

How effective would flir and nightvision optics be in hunting them down at night?

makattak · « **Reply #9 on:** January 31, 2012, 02:23:41 PM »

Quote from: Ron on January 31, 2012, 02:20:47 PM

How effective would flir and nightvision optics be in hunting them down at night?

Cold-blooded animal and infrared? I'm betting very poor. Other forms of night vision would obvioulsy be more useful.

Ron · « **Reply #10 on:** January 31, 2012, 02:29:51 PM »

That's what I was wondering.

Short of baiting them with live tethered critters I'm not sure what the options are for tracking them.

roo_ster · « **Reply #11 on:** January 31, 2012, 02:30:16 PM »

Quote from: makattak on January 31, 2012, 02:23:41 PM

Cold-blooded animal and infrared? I'm betting very poor. Other forms of night vision would obvioulsy be more useful.

I2 sensitive to the near-IR, along with big, honking near-IR spot & flood lights FTW.

Viking · « **Reply #12 on:** January 31, 2012, 02:33:21 PM »

I lol'd at this:

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I don’t know what the right number is but for the sake of argument if we had a hunting season in which you could bring in unlimited number of Burmese pythons for $50 per pound, my hunch is Burmese pythons would be erecting memorials to the great snake genocide of 2012.

As for using nightvision/FLIR - would snakes be colder than the surrounding area?

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #13 on:** January 31, 2012, 02:59:16 PM »

Are we going to need more snake recipes?

Harold Tuttle · « **Reply #14 on:** January 31, 2012, 03:05:43 PM »

gonna need a bigger boat

cassandra and sara's daddy · « **Reply #15 on:** January 31, 2012, 03:18:04 PM »

need a yuppie snake cookbook

roo_ster · « **Reply #16 on:** January 31, 2012, 03:51:19 PM »

Quote from: cassandra and sara's daddy on January 31, 2012, 03:18:04 PM

need a yuppie snake cookbook

With "artisan" recipes for snakeys.

AJ Dual · « **Reply #17 on:** January 31, 2012, 04:01:02 PM »

Quote from: makattak on January 31, 2012, 02:23:41 PM

Cold-blooded animal and infrared? I'm betting very poor. Other forms of night vision would obvioulsy be more useful.

I'm sure the snake would be lower contrast on FLIR than a mammal, but I'd think they'd still show up. Being "cold blooded" does not automatically make a reptile "cold", just that they don't expend metabolic energy on maintaining a particular body temperature. They still curl up, find shade, sun themselves, open their mouths and get in/out of the water to manage their temperature.

BlueStarLizzard · « **Reply #18 on:** January 31, 2012, 04:12:30 PM »

Quote from: AJ Dual on January 31, 2012, 04:01:02 PM

I'm sure the snake would be lower contrast on FLIR than a mammal, but I'd think they'd still show up. Being "cold blooded" does not automatically make a reptile "cold", just that they don't expend metabolic energy on maintaining a particular body temperature. They still curl up, find shade, sun themselves, open their mouths and get in/out of the water to manage their temperature.

the everglades would be a "hot" environment, though. How would you know that its a curled up python and not just a pile of rotting swamp junk?