>>And to the person that said the retic would weigh 2500 pounds what are you basing this off of? Bob Clark's Fluffy is 310 pounds at 22 feet. So 27 more feet would add 2200 pounds? That doesn't add up.



That's because you're adding. Snakes are 3 dimensional, so you have to exponentiate (if that's a word). 49 feet is 2.23 times the length of fluffy. Assuming it's the same shape that would make it 310*(2.23^3) = 3438 pounds, but like I said, I was assuming a fairly skinny snake.
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• World's largest snake caught - jhasty, Mon Dec 29 08:41:31 2003
• RE: World's largest snake caught - jhasty, Mon Dec 29 08:42:41 2003
• RE: amazing!, here's the text from story... - gaus, Mon Dec 29 09:55:31 2003
• It's on the CNN website too, but NO pics. Has anyone - - tcdrover, Mon Dec 29 10:45:22 2003
• RE: It's on the CNN website too, but NO pics. Has anyone - - jeffb, Mon Dec 29 13:08:31 2003
• If that's the snake in question... - Larry D. Fishel, Mon Dec 29 13:24:46 2003
• RE: If that's the snake in question... - snake12, Mon Dec 29 20:23:55 2003
• RE: World's largest snake caught - Larry D. Fishel, Mon Dec 29 12:57:04 2003
• But now the question is... - JimmyDavid, Mon Dec 29 14:19:14 2003
• Just one more thing - JimmyDavid, Mon Dec 29 14:45:06 2003
• RE: World's largest snake caught - hermitcore, Mon Dec 29 15:32:26 2003
• RE: World's largest snake caught - Larry D. Fishel, Mon Dec 29 16:20:25 2003
• RE: World's largest snake caught - hermitcore, Mon Dec 29 19:39:04 2003
• RE: World's largest snake caught - Larry D. Fishel, Mon Dec 29 22:44:09 2003
• Here is the picture - Marcel Poots, Mon Dec 29 16:37:33 2003
• RE: World's largest snake caught - frankw, Mon Dec 29 17:12:59 2003
• This is not a very large python...... - MikeWilbanks, Tue Dec 30 09:51:32 2003
• RE: This is not a very large python...... - psilocybe, Tue Dec 30 13:06:22 2003
• My 2c - jordanm, Tue Dec 30 15:44:50 2003