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a filmmaker and naturalist, built a custom snake-proof suit so he could be devoured by an anaconda for a Discovery Channel television special. A YouTube promo for the Dec. 7 special titled, predictably, "Eaten Alive" shows Rosolie stalking an anaconda, otherwise minding its own business, before it presumably attacks
http://www.chron.com/entertainment/movies-tv/article/Man-to-be-eaten-by-anaconda-during-Discovery-5876391.php
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Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)arely staircase
(12,482 posts)This is almost like a scene from the director's cut.
Auggie
(31,134 posts)woo me with science
(32,139 posts)There is no scientific merit to this. There is no educational merit to this.
This is your "educational TV" in corporate neoAmerica.
ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)Seems like an asshole thing to do to a snake, but it's creative.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)Reality TV will bring about Idiocracy at some point in time.
College students don't know who won the Revolutionary War...but the know all about Jersey Shore.
Drale
(7,932 posts)and he gets digested. I know I'm a terrible person.
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)arely staircase
(12,482 posts)seabeyond
(110,159 posts)VScott
(774 posts)Should have at least given the snake better odds by suiting up a midget for the challenge.
hatrack
(59,578 posts)That's right, "The Learning Channel".
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)petronius
(26,598 posts)getting gummed a bit before the snake realizes it isn't food, but I doubt there was ever any intention or expectation of getting him completely inside the snake. Just a bunch a bunch of jackassy nonsense to get people noticing and talki... ... oops.