look at this!

[Bartman]

Wow, this is one big arse snake. To bad eh. What is it? Looks liek a conda?

http://www.menphis75.com/images/foto_mostri/sucuriju02.jpg

[Reticsrule]

yeah looks like a poor anaconda to me. i hate it when people do that to such an amazing animal

[JimmyDavid]

That's really an old pic. That's a 7 metre Anaconda killed in brasil. I think it's the same snake in the photo i posted on the"large conda" thread, i'm not sure.

[Bartman]

I knewed you be able to give a good description Jimmy :D

How many feet is 7 meteres? Like 18 feet?

[JimmyDavid]

In fact, i know about the 7 metre lenght because that's what's on a website with that same photo.
That's over 23 feet. And it's possible, looking at the pic

[Odessa78]

Wow that is one huge snake. That always makes me sad to see such a lovely giant killed. That pic was deffinatly taken quite awhile ago as I have seen it on a few sites now.

Laura-Lee L

[varanus69]

almost makes me wanna hang them from the bucket of that tractor. Very sad..

[BOAS_N_PYTHONS]

I would say conda too, but it might be a corn snake as well, lol :)

Tony

[ydnic]

7 meters is 21 ft
3 feet per meter

[Brent Strande]

7 meter = 22.9658793 feet

[ydnic]

how is that possible though?

36 inches per meter

12 inches per foot?

What kinds weird math thing are you using?

lol - this is freking my out!!!!!!!!!

[C.ADAMANTEUS]

Originally posted by Brent Strande
7 meter = 22.9658793 feet
Hey someone who knows the right multiplier. ha ha
Im a surveyor by trade and the correct number is 3.2808 ft. in 1 meter

[ydnic]

well why on my tape measures ( I have a couple -) it should 12 inches per foot and then on my meter stick it shows only 36 in???

dammit - not so smart after -

if I can`t count on there being 3 ft per meter - I can`t count anything

[ravensgait]

Um ydnic that would be a yard stick 3 feet in a yard. Yeah confuseing as ##ll isn't it

[C.ADAMANTEUS]

Originally posted by ydnic
well why on my tape measures ( I have a couple -) it should 12 inches per foot and then on my meter stick it shows only 36 in???

dammit - not so smart after -

if I can`t count on there being 3 ft per meter - I can`t count anything
Metrics are confusing to alot of people. Here in America, its only recently being used in our highway departments.
But if your meter stick, is showing you ANY inches at all, it most likely is a yard stick.
The easy-est way to tell the two apart, is that metrics is designed to use a decimal, so it counts in multiples of 10, 100, 1000, ect. 10mm = 1 cm 10cm =1dm 10dm = 1 meter etc. 1 in is roughly 8.25mm 1ft. is .3048 Meters ROUGHLY 1/3 ( hence the common belief that a yard and meter are =

Once practiced with, its actually alot easier to use for calculating purposes, and converts back to feet more accurately, than converting feet to meters.
Dont know if that helps or not, but there has been 15 highway departments in 5 years that have gone metric, so what before was not so important, now may be crucial to learn, cus it would appear that the USA is going to convert over to the metric system.
Once someone shows the relationship in an understandable way, they're easy.:D
Rick

[JimmyDavid]

Metres are more acurate and easyer to use.
The "foot" measure started from people long ago, that had no way of measuring something right. So they estimated the lenght of objects by comparing it to the lenght of their feet (wich is about 30cm for most people, but never certain). Needless to say, it could get confusing.
In general, people who measure in feet use Inches for small lenghts and people who use meters use centimeters. An inch is basically 2.5 centimeters, so centimeters can be more specific.

[C.ADAMANTEUS]

You are right in the 2.5 cm per inch, I actually misquoted that part of my statment. I was going to Engineering msrmnt of 100ths.
.0825 ft per inch.
OOOPPPSSS.

[JimmyDavid]

I use the 2.5cm = 1 inch thing to convert about anything, but it get's inacurate as the lenght increases. Notice that i estimated 7 meters to be over 23', but in fact it's a little less.

[latazyo]

the reason it gets inaccurate is because it's 2.54 cm/in to add another decimal and that's a significant amount with large numbers

[BoidKeeper]

I would never pose like that with a dead anything. Why do we as a species what to be photographed with dead things whether we've killed them or not. I haven't hunted in a few years but if I ever do get a chance to hunt again I won't be posing along side of my dinner.
My two cents,
Trevor

[C.ADAMANTEUS]

Originally posted by latazyo
the reason it gets inaccurate is because it's 2.54 cm/in to add another decimal and that's a significant amount with large numbers
Correct again. The subject of meters can go on & on.>(

When using astranomical numbers, (like state plane coordinates)
You MUST include ALL the decimals, for a proper conversion, or you may be hundreds of meters off your tragectory.
1 Meter = 3.28083989501 Ft. Or as close as my calculator will bring me.
Some surveying and engineering books will provide you with a 17 digit multiplier for extra large, or extra small numbers.
But this is a herp forum:D
So for the common purposes, you can go 3.25 Ft to a meter for rough calcs.
Rick

[sidewinder]

There pretty close, three feet equals a yard (36 inches) A meter is roughly 39 inches

[chas*e]

Who knows if the people killed it..it could have just died...anyways...big succka