look at this!

[Bartman]

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

[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

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.
Rick