You Will Believe A Snake Can Fly!
Posted by Justin on November 23rd, 2010
Well, humanity had a pretty good run. Snakes have learned to fly and now we are on borrowed time.
Five related species of tree-dwelling snakes found in Southeast and South Asia may just be the worst nightmares of ophidiophobes (people who have abnormal fears of snakes). Not only are they snakes, but they can “fly” — flinging themselves off their perches, flattening their bodies, and gliding from tree to tree or to the ground.
…Socha says, “the snake is pushed upward — even though it is moving downward — because the upward component of the aerodynamic force is greater than the snake’s weight.”
“Hypothetically, this means that if the snake continued on like this, it would eventually be moving upward in the air — quite an impressive feat for a snake,” he says. But our modeling suggests that the effect is only temporary, and eventually “the snake hits the ground to end the glide.”
See what hell you have wrought Samuel L. Jackson. You’ve ridden the beasts from your plane only to force their evolution here on Earth.
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November 24th, 2010 at 11:24 am
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The lizard may just beat that snake.
It’s a matter of time that DARPA makes a snake/human hybrid… oh spiderman, you should be worried now.