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Welsh Dan
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If a snake should start swallowing its own tail, how far would it get?

And just in case.
Marc
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Half its orginal length.
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quote:
Originally posted by Marc
Half its orginal length.


tbh depends if it was just swallowing it or eating it
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He said swallowing.
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a snake always eat its prey head frist so
Welsh Dan
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quote:
Originally posted by Marc
Half its orginal length.


I can see your thinking, but just remember that if it is constantly swallowing itself, the tail will just keep going inside itself........
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tbh i think the problem lies with trying to find a snake willing to swallow itself in the first place!
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but it wont just keep going inside it self because the tal cant go in the tail an once its started swallowing itself it wont be able to coil up so will only be able to swallow half its body
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but it wont just keep going inside it self because the tal cant go in the tail an once its started swallowing itself it wont be able to coil up so will only be able to swallow half its body


But thats the point. In theory, the tail can go inside itself.
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No, thats just impossible. It would go half its original length.

Also it could never happen in reality
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in theory if a snake swallowed a nother snake then ye it could go in the tail but not if it swallows its self
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i still dont think the snake is gonna be up for this
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I bet you've done lots of things you weren't up for Kerry
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good point and a much better theory to test too
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again i point out: snakes swollow there prey head first so the question is invalid
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This ones sneaking up on himself
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quote:
Originally posted by scottyp1989
in theory if a snake swallowed a nother snake then ye it could go in the tail but not if it swallows its self


I disagree, and I don't want to resort to drawing pictures.
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Never mind.
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LOL DAN

half its length, well a bit less, if you think it would carry on in a circle forever you are silly
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but it could never get to its own tail by swollowing its self because it can not coil up an if it coils up inside its self it is still not going to get to its tail
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I know it can't continue forever, but that is just to show that in theory, it could make itself 1/3 the length it was before.
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quote:
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but it could never get to its own tail by swollowing its self because it can not coil up an if it coils up inside its self it is still not going to get to its tail


Obviously not, I could have told you that.
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so in theory then it can only swallow a bit more than half its body
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I could have drawn it with an extra turn, to show 1/4 its length.
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but then it would have to coil up would it not

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