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Would you stay a week on this island for $1 million?
Posted on 3/27/14 at 10:19 pm
Posted on 3/27/14 at 10:19 pm
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You'd get a cabin in good condition, a machete, and a small amount of food and water but not enough to get through the week. Your cabin will not have electricity. You would be able to call for help if bitten but would not win.
You'd get a cabin in good condition, a machete, and a small amount of food and water but not enough to get through the week. Your cabin will not have electricity. You would be able to call for help if bitten but would not win.
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"Between one and five snakes per square meter" might not be so terrible if the snakes were, say, 2 inches long and nonvenomous. The snakes on Queimada Grande, however, are a unique species of pit viper, the golden lancehead. The lancehead genus of snakes is responsible for 90% of Brazilian snakebite-related fatalities. The golden lanceheads that occupy Snake Island grow to well over half a meter long, and they possess a powerful fast-acting poison that melts the flesh around their bites. Golden lanceheads are so dangerous that, with the exception of some scientific outfits, the Brazilian Navy has expressly forbidden anyone from landing on the island.
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Locals in the coastal towns near Queimada Grande love to recount two grisly tales of death on the island. In one, a fisherman unwittingly wanders onto the island to pick bananas. Naturally, he is bitten. He manages to return to his boat, where he promptly succumbs to the snake's venom. He is found some time later on the boat deck in a great pool of blood.
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The other story is of the final lighthouse operator and his family. One night, a handful of snakes enter through a window and attack the man, his wife, and their three children. In a desperate gambit to escape, they flee towards their boat, but they are bitten by snakes on branches overhead.
Marcelo Duarte, a biologist who has visited Snake Island over twenty times, says that the locals' claim of one to five snakes per square meter is an exaggeration, though perhaps not by much. One snake per square meter is more like it. Not that that should ease one's mind: At one snake per meter, you're never more than three feet away from death.
This post was edited on 3/27/14 at 10:21 pm
Posted on 3/27/14 at 10:23 pm to jmarto1
While I despise snakes, I feel my mongoose blood would keep me safe, and for one million dollars I would take that chance.
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Valar Snakeghulis
Posted on 3/27/14 at 10:24 pm to NawlinsTiger9
I wouldn't chance dying for $1mil
Posted on 3/27/14 at 10:25 pm to jmarto1
without reading the OP i knew it was about that snake island, and frick no
Posted on 3/27/14 at 10:27 pm to BlackleafBaller
Lost me with the snakes
Posted on 3/27/14 at 10:27 pm to jmarto1
Sooooo.....
Would I die for $1 million?
No.
Would I die for $1 million?
No.
Posted on 3/27/14 at 10:28 pm to jmarto1
Aw hell no. I don't do snakes.
Posted on 3/27/14 at 10:33 pm to jmarto1
Snakes....Snakes.... I dont know no Snakes.
Posted on 3/27/14 at 10:33 pm to jmarto1
With only one of those snakes on that island, I'd still say no.
Posted on 3/27/14 at 10:34 pm to Choupique19
I wonder if you could Indiana Jones that shite and have a fire going around your place. Kill snakes here and there to eat off of.
Posted on 3/27/14 at 10:35 pm to jmarto1
That island would be mongoose heaven...
Posted on 3/27/14 at 10:38 pm to jmarto1
A week? Probably. A month? No way.
Posted on 3/27/14 at 10:41 pm to jmarto1
frick no, and I guess I already know what I'll be dreaming about tonight. Damnit
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