Talk:1398: Snake Facts - Revision history

GetPunnedOn at 23:47, 26 December 2023

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198.41.242.70 at 13:45, 19 December 2018

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Ianrbibtitlht at 17:44, 1 June 2017

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Davidy22 at 13:14, 31 July 2014

2014-07-31T13:14:24Z

141.101.99.184: Added thoughts on alt-text

2014-07-31T04:05:34Z

Added thoughts on alt-text

108.162.240.18: currency snake?

2014-07-25T21:45:49Z

currency snake?

DivePeak at 08:22, 25 July 2014

2014-07-25T08:22:59Z

173.245.48.125 at 18:23, 24 July 2014

2014-07-24T18:23:30Z

108.162.215.196 at 15:00, 24 July 2014

2014-07-24T15:00:28Z

Brettpeirce at 12:30, 24 July 2014

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	:Randall has corrected the map on xkcd... Someone should upload the updated version. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.223.29\|108.162.223.29]] 09:48, 23 July 2014 (UTC)		:Randall has corrected the map on xkcd... Someone should upload the updated version. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.223.29\|108.162.223.29]] 09:48, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
	::Updated the image to match the one on xkcd.com. [[User:Nialpxe\|Nialpxe]] ([[User talk:Nialpxe\|talk]]) 10:00, 23 July 2014 (UTC)		::Updated the image to match the one on xkcd.com. [[User:Nialpxe\|Nialpxe]] ([[User talk:Nialpxe\|talk]]) 10:00, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
		+	:::The old image should be put in the trivia section for antiquity though. [[User:GetPunnedOn\|GetPunnedOn]] ([[User talk:GetPunnedOn\|talk]]) 23:47, 26 December 2023 (UTC)

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 There's an obvious reference to Ze Frank's True Facts series here, both in the amount of truth the facts have, and the use of the name Frank.
 [[Special:Contributions/108.162.210.238|108.162.210.238]] 07:49, 24 July 2014 (UTC)jivadent
 Is the 'wikipedia says' at the start of every sentence necessary?[[Special:Contributions/108.162.249.206|108.162.249.206]] 08:48, 24 July 2014 (UTC)

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	I immediately thought of a currency snake, an agreement between two or more countries to keep variation in the value of their currencies in a certain range. Thought the three countries mentioned could have made such an agreement ca. 60 years ago. Admittedly I find no evidence of it whatsoever.21:45, 25 July 2014 (UTC)~		I immediately thought of a currency snake, an agreement between two or more countries to keep variation in the value of their currencies in a certain range. Thought the three countries mentioned could have made such an agreement ca. 60 years ago. Admittedly I find no evidence of it whatsoever.21:45, 25 July 2014 (UTC)~
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		+	I just have a little nítpick with this line in the explanation:
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		+	:"If you laid all the bones in a snake end to end, you would have a snake.", is obvious and not at all exciting.
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		+	While I agree this is rather obvious, I wouldn't say it's not at all exciting! How many other animals besides a snake can you describe this way, considering only those with actual "bones" that are arranged in a single line? Snakes are 'one of the few' animals in the world that you can! --[[User:Ianrbibtitlht\|Ianrbibtitlht]] ([[User talk:Ianrbibtitlht\|talk]]) 17:44, 1 June 2017 (UTC)

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 Is it possible that the alt-text is a reference to Cyrano de Bergeracs "L’Autre monde ou les états et empires de la Lune" ("Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon")? I don't have a proper translation, but there's a dialogue that says that every man is born with a snake inside his belly as a punishment by god.--[[Special:Contributions/141.101.104.129|141.101.104.129]] 15:35, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
-::Is this possibly a reference to the Goa'ould from "Stargate"?
+::Is this possibly a reference to the Goa'ould from "Stargate"?{{unsigned ip|141.101.99.184}}
 That ive seen, Randall is usually very precise in his work.  getting a wrong breed for 'longest snake' seems odd to me.  Could the 'longest snake' be referring to either a 'longest lived' specimen, or a geographical feature named for a snake?  Or perhaps an extinct species?  [[Special:Contributions/108.162.215.196|108.162.215.196]] 15:51, 23 July 2014 (UTC)

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	Is it possible that the alt-text is a reference to Cyrano de Bergeracs "L’Autre monde ou les états et empires de la Lune" ("Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon")? I don't have a proper translation, but there's a dialogue that says that every man is born with a snake inside his belly as a punishment by god.--[[Special:Contributions/141.101.104.129\|141.101.104.129]] 15:35, 23 July 2014 (UTC)		Is it possible that the alt-text is a reference to Cyrano de Bergeracs "L’Autre monde ou les états et empires de la Lune" ("Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon")? I don't have a proper translation, but there's a dialogue that says that every man is born with a snake inside his belly as a punishment by god.--[[Special:Contributions/141.101.104.129\|141.101.104.129]] 15:35, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
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	That ive seen, Randall is usually very precise in his work. getting a wrong breed for 'longest snake' seems odd to me. Could the 'longest snake' be referring to either a 'longest lived' specimen, or a geographical feature named for a snake? Or perhaps an extinct species? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.215.196\|108.162.215.196]] 15:51, 23 July 2014 (UTC)		That ive seen, Randall is usually very precise in his work. getting a wrong breed for 'longest snake' seems odd to me. Could the 'longest snake' be referring to either a 'longest lived' specimen, or a geographical feature named for a snake? Or perhaps an extinct species? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.215.196\|108.162.215.196]] 15:51, 23 July 2014 (UTC)

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	Possible reference to a YouTube video uploaded 14 Feb 2014 explaining a partial solution to the Erdos Discrepancy Problem, which includes: "Two steps in front of you is a nest of angry snakes. And not just any old angry snakes, but like, snakes with really bad breath and stuff". [http://youtu.be/pFHsrCNtJu4?t=39s] --[[User:DivePeak\|DivePeak]] ([[User talk:DivePeak\|talk]]) 08:22, 25 July 2014 (UTC)		Possible reference to a YouTube video uploaded 14 Feb 2014 explaining a partial solution to the Erdos Discrepancy Problem, which includes: "Two steps in front of you is a nest of angry snakes. And not just any old angry snakes, but like, snakes with really bad breath and stuff". [http://youtu.be/pFHsrCNtJu4?t=39s] --[[User:DivePeak\|DivePeak]] ([[User talk:DivePeak\|talk]]) 08:22, 25 July 2014 (UTC)
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		+	I immediately thought of a currency snake, an agreement between two or more countries to keep variation in the value of their currencies in a certain range. Thought the three countries mentioned could have made such an agreement ca. 60 years ago. Admittedly I find no evidence of it whatsoever.21:45, 25 July 2014 (UTC)~

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	Is the 'wikipedia says' at the start of every sentence necessary?[[Special:Contributions/108.162.249.206\|108.162.249.206]] 08:48, 24 July 2014 (UTC)		Is the 'wikipedia says' at the start of every sentence necessary?[[Special:Contributions/108.162.249.206\|108.162.249.206]] 08:48, 24 July 2014 (UTC)
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		+	Possible reference to a YouTube video uploaded 14 Feb 2014 explaining a partial solution to the Erdos Discrepancy Problem, which includes: "Two steps in front of you is a nest of angry snakes. And not just any old angry snakes, but like, snakes with really bad breath and stuff". [http://youtu.be/pFHsrCNtJu4?t=39s] --[[User:DivePeak\|DivePeak]] ([[User talk:DivePeak\|talk]]) 08:22, 25 July 2014 (UTC)

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 ::Agreed. Anaconda's are not found in Chile either... though Google says that the Anaconda Copper Company owned the largest Copper Mine in the world, located in Chile. I can't connect that factoid with the "more than 60 years" part, though. [[Special:Contributions/173.245.56.167|173.245.56.167]] 22:18, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
 :::anaconda copper was founded in 1881, making it 'more than60 years old' - not a great connection in my book.  [[Special:Contributions/108.162.215.196|108.162.215.196]] 15:00, 24 July 2014 (UTC)
 I agree that some people are taking this too literally. Imagine if you approached the situation in reverse, accepting the factoids about a word that you are unfamiliar with. Our digestive tract swallows food, processes it, and evacuates the waste through a flexible wavy tube with several independent parts. The skeleton of the snake looks like a wavy line of individual segments, maybe implying where the name came from. The shaded area on the map looks pretty spot on with the location of the Andes mountain range (the longest continental mountain range on Earth and definitely believed to be over 60 years old). The top factoid is about the animal we have named after the concept of a snake as a wavy not straight staying thing. I like this idea and think I shall keep it. Thank you everyone for your help in offering inadequate information, and while that may seem sarcastic, it is not. I regularly use incorrect examples to get my mind on the correct path to good ones.[[Special:Contributions/199.27.128.74|199.27.128.74]] 06:32, 24 July 2014 (UTC)

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	Just a couple of thoughts: How big was the person whose digestive tract became the longest snake in the world? Also, does the grosser end of the digestive tract develop into the head of a venomous snake? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.223.29\|108.162.223.29]] 06:57, 23 July 2014 (UTC)		Just a couple of thoughts: How big was the person whose digestive tract became the longest snake in the world? Also, does the grosser end of the digestive tract develop into the head of a venomous snake? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.223.29\|108.162.223.29]] 06:57, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
		+	:Not a particularly important part of answering your question, but... which end of the digestive tract are you thinking is the "grosser end"? I could imagine arguments for both. [[User:Brettpeirce\|Brettpeirce]] ([[User talk:Brettpeirce\|talk]]) 12:30, 24 July 2014 (UTC)

	The snake in the map shades Chile, BOLIVIA and Brazil, not Peru. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.229.125\|108.162.229.125]] 08:25, 23 July 2014 (UTC)		The snake in the map shades Chile, BOLIVIA and Brazil, not Peru. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.229.125\|108.162.229.125]] 08:25, 23 July 2014 (UTC)