A Scientist WasSwallowed By A GiantSnake For A DiscoveryChannel Show
When naturalist Paul Rosolie wanted to
focus attention on the destruction of
the Amazon rainforest, he decided he
needed a stunt guaranteed to get
people looking.
So the staunch environmentalist
offered himself as dinner to an
anaconda -- and was swallowed alive,
filming every moment.
Anacondas, the largest snakes in the
world, typically suffocate their prey
before ingesting it, making Rosolie's
attempt all the more dangerous.
But Rosolie survived, and now people
all around the world will have a chance
to watch his harrowing journey into
the stomach of the beast, starting
Sunday night when the video airs in the
United States on the Discovery
Channel.
The idea came to him after a decade
spent working in, and working to save,
the rainforest habitat, Rosolie told AFP.
"Everybody on Earth knows that the
rain forests are disappearing and most
people can tell you how important they
are, but still, not enough people are
paying attention, not enough people
realize this is such a problem."
The American activist said he was
proud to take on the adventure, even
though the prospect of dying was hard
to swallow.
An hour inside
To avoid suffocating, experts crafted
Rosolie a specially designed carbon
fiber suit, equipped with a breathing
system -- as well as with cameras and
a system to communicate.
"We didn't know if this was going to
work, if I was going to be eaten, but
we made sure that if I did make it
inside the snake, I wouldn't suffocate,"
Rosolie explained after the ordeal.
The next challenge was trying to find a
snake in the Peruvian Amazon jungle.
"We spent 60 days out in the jungle,
camping, hiking, looking
through swamps every night," Rosolie
said.
Eventually, they found a female snake,
which at, six meters (20 feet) long, fit
the bill.
"When I went up to the snake, it didn't
try to eat me right away," Rosolie
recounted.
"It tried to escape. And when I
provoked it a little bit, and acted a little
more like a predator, that's when it
turned around and defended itself."
The explorer was swallowed head first
and spent more than an hour inside the
giant snake, he said, adding that he
kept in touch with his team the whole
time.
He said he was scared that something
would go wrong, but at the same time,
"I was very excited to do it."
"You are going up against one of the
greatest predators of the planet and
doing something that no one has ever
done before," he said.
Anaconda doing well
He did not give details on how he was
freed from the snake, but he insisted
his team was careful not to harm it
and that he was the only one in danger.
"We didn't force the snake to do
anything, we didn't ask from the snake
anything out of the ordinary," Rosolie
said, explaining that "snakes very often
regurgitate if they're eating something
and a predator comes by, they have to
give up their meal so they can escape."
The anaconda is now doing well, he said.
But Rosolie has faced fierce criticism
from animal rights groups, including
from PETA, who said "the snake was
tormented and suffered for the sake
of ratings."
Rosolie said he even received death
threats.
But he wasn't fazed, saying the shock
value is important to increase attention
to his cause.
A fund linked to the show was set up
to raise awareness and money to
protect the Amazon and could also
allow for more research of anacondas
in their habitat.
After the US showing, "Eaten Alive" will
air on December 10 in Finland,
Denmark, Hungary, Poland and Sweden,
and two days later in Australia, before
being broadcast in other countries,
including China and India.
Discovery said it expect at least three
million viewers in the United States and
a million others around the world.
On 12/7/14, ogunlowo joseph <ogunlowojoseph@gmail.com> wrote:
> The PlayStation gaming console wrapped
> up its second decade on Wednesday, and
> Sony celebrated by looking to the past.
> The Japanese tech giant announced that a
> limited edition 20th Anniversary
> PlayStation 4 will be released soon. The
> console will be gray, like the first
> PlayStation released December 3, 1994 in
> Japan. It will include other imagery like the
> iconic four-color PlayStation logo that
> harks back to the system's history.
> "The mid-'90s were an exciting time for
> game developers, driven by the explosion
> of powerful but affordable 3-D graphics
> rendering hardware and the birth of many
> young and adventurous development
> studios," Shuhei Yoshida, president of Sony
> Computer Entertainment Worldwide
> Studios, wrote in the post on the
> PlayStation blog. "The original PlayStation
> was meant to embody that sense of
> adventure and discovery, that sense that
> anything was possible."
> The PlayStation sold a then unheard-of
> 100,000 units in its first weekend and hit 1
> million units in six months, according to
> Sony.
> Only 12,300 units of the 20th Anniversary
> PS4 will be released, according to a video
> on the blog post. Pre-orders will begin
> Saturday, and details about how to vie for
> one of the handful of slots will come
> during a keynote presentation from
> PlayStation Experience, a fan and
> developer expo being held in Las Vegas.
> The keynote will be Saturday at 1 pm ET.
> To celebrate the 20th anniversary, we
> assembled a gallery of images of the
> PlayStation, and the people who love it,
> from the past two decades.
>
> On 12/7/14, ogunlowo joseph <ogunlowojoseph@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Bond is back and we're pleased to have
>> all of the details of the new movie.
>> Director Sam Mendes revealed the
>> name and cast of the new movie,
>> Spectre, during a live event held at
>> London's Pinewood Studios.
>> The movie is set to be released on 6th
>> November 2015. Avid fans will know
>> Spectre stands for: Special Executive
>> for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism,
>> Revenge and Extortion,
>
>
>> On 12/7/14, ogunlowo joseph <ogunlowojoseph@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Gangnam Style hit music video by
>>> South Korean singer, PSY, has exceeded
>>> YouTube's view limit, prompting
>>> YouTube to upgrade its counter.
>>> The video which was released in 2012,
>>> was announced to be its most watched
>>> ever and has been viewed more than
>>> 2,147,483,647 times. YouTube has now
>>> changed the maximum view limit to
>>> 9,223,372,036,854,775,808, or more
>>> than nine quintillion.
>>> On December 1, YouTube posted a
>>> statement saying: "We never thought a
>>> video would be watched in numbers
>>> greater than a 32-bit integer… but
>>> that was before we met Psy."
>>> Meanwhile, how do you say
>>> 9,223,372,036,854,775,808? That's
>>> over a quadrillion, over a trillion, and
>>> over a billion.
>
>
>>> On 12/4/14, Joseph Ogunlowo <ogunlowojoseph@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Kim K has been named the "Most Searched
>>>> Person of 2014″, beating last year's winner,
>>>> Beyonce. 2014 was definitely the year of the 34
>>>> year old reality star with buzz-worthy events like
>>>> her wedding to Kanye, her Vogue cover and
>>>> most recently her 'break the internet' naked pics
>>>> for Paper magazine.
>>>> Beyonce comes second, while Miley Cyrus and
>>>> Katy Perry come 3rd and 4th respectively. See
>>>> the top ten most searched personalities of 2014
>>>> after the cut...
>>>> 1. Kim Kardashian
>>>> 2. Beyonce Knowles
>>>> 3. Miley Cyrus
>>>> 4. Katy Perry
>>>> 5. Justin Bieber
>>>> 6. Joan Rivers
>>>> 7. Jennifer Lopez
>>>> 8. Kendall Jenner
>>>> 9. Kaley Cuoco
>>>> 10. Robin Williams
>
>
>>>> On 12/3/14, Joseph Ogunlowo <ogunlowojoseph@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> At the Pioneers Festival in Vienna, a
>>>>> Slovakian startup called AeroMobil unveiled
>>>>> the thing that we have all been dreaming
>>>>> about since we saw that first episode of the
>>>>> Jetsons while still wearing diapers: The first
>>>>> flying car. It's here. It's real. And it's
>>>>> spectacular.
>>>>> According to Venturebeat, the company
>>>>> took the wraps off AeroMobil 3.0, the latest
>>>>> iteration of its flying car that has been in
>>>>> development for almost 25 years.
>>>>> "We believe personal transportation is about
>>>>> to change forever," said AeroMobil chief
>>>>> executive Juraj Vaculik at a press
>>>>> conference. "We think it's time to make
>>>>> transportation more emotional and more
>>>>> personal."
>>>>> The car was designed by Stefan Klein,
>>>>> founder and head of the Department of
>>>>> Transport Design at the Academy of Fine
>>>>> Arts in Slovakia. Klein had been tinkering
>>>>> with the concept as far back as 1989.
>>>>> Image
>>>>> The car needs very little runway to take off,
>>>>> and it can be refueled at any standard gas
>>>>> station when the wings are retracted.
>>>>> AeroMobil believes it will be attractive for
>>>>> countries that don't have billions of dollars
>>>>> to spend building a modern transportation
>>>>> infrastructure.
>>>>> The body is built from advanced composite
>>>>> materials that keep it lightweight but also
>>>>> durable. Under the hood, it has autopilot
>>>>> and an advanced parachute deployment
>>>>> system. The cockpit can carry two people,
>>>>> and in the air the flying car can reach top
>>>>> speeds of 200 km/h. It has a 27-foot
>>>>> wingspan and is 19.7 feet long.
>>>>> No word on the price tag.
>
>>>>> On 12/3/14, ogunlowo joseph <ogunlowojoseph@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> According to reports Angelina Jolie's black
>>>>>> SUV car slipped on a wet road, slid into the
>>>>>> curb with extreme force, popping two tires,
>>>>>> almost causing the driver to lose control of
>>>>>> the vehicle.
>>>>>> The actress was heading home in a
>>>>>> chauffeured black SUV from Writers' Guild
>>>>>> Theater, when the car hit the curb.
>>>>>> According to an eyewitness (who spoke ti
>>>>>> X17 Online): "The car slammed into the
>>>>>> curb at a significant speed. Angelina must
>>>>>> have wondered if they hit another car. It
>>>>>> was pretty bad -- the tire exploded and it's
>>>>>> amazing nothing worse happened to the
>>>>>> car. I wouldn't be surprised if she has
>>>>>> whiplash."
>>>>>> Angelina reportedly stayed in the car after
>>>>>> the incident and was later picked up, not
>>>>>> by Brad pitt, but by another driver from the
>>>>>> same car service.
>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Posted By ogunlowo joseph to entertainment,investing,education on
>>>>>> 12/03/2014 10:47:00 am
>
>
>
>
>>> --
>>> Posted By ogunlowo joseph to entertainment,investing,education on
>>> 12/07/2014 01:50:00 am
>
>
>> --
>> Posted By ogunlowo joseph to entertainment,investing,education on
>> 12/07/2014 03:24:00 am
>
>
> --
> Posted By ogunlowo joseph to entertainment,investing,education on
> 12/07/2014 06:03:00 am
>
focus attention on the destruction of
the Amazon rainforest, he decided he
needed a stunt guaranteed to get
people looking.
So the staunch environmentalist
offered himself as dinner to an
anaconda -- and was swallowed alive,
filming every moment.
Anacondas, the largest snakes in the
world, typically suffocate their prey
before ingesting it, making Rosolie's
attempt all the more dangerous.
But Rosolie survived, and now people
all around the world will have a chance
to watch his harrowing journey into
the stomach of the beast, starting
Sunday night when the video airs in the
United States on the Discovery
Channel.
The idea came to him after a decade
spent working in, and working to save,
the rainforest habitat, Rosolie told AFP.
"Everybody on Earth knows that the
rain forests are disappearing and most
people can tell you how important they
are, but still, not enough people are
paying attention, not enough people
realize this is such a problem."
The American activist said he was
proud to take on the adventure, even
though the prospect of dying was hard
to swallow.
An hour inside
To avoid suffocating, experts crafted
Rosolie a specially designed carbon
fiber suit, equipped with a breathing
system -- as well as with cameras and
a system to communicate.
"We didn't know if this was going to
work, if I was going to be eaten, but
we made sure that if I did make it
inside the snake, I wouldn't suffocate,"
Rosolie explained after the ordeal.
The next challenge was trying to find a
snake in the Peruvian Amazon jungle.
"We spent 60 days out in the jungle,
camping, hiking, looking
through swamps every night," Rosolie
said.
Eventually, they found a female snake,
which at, six meters (20 feet) long, fit
the bill.
"When I went up to the snake, it didn't
try to eat me right away," Rosolie
recounted.
"It tried to escape. And when I
provoked it a little bit, and acted a little
more like a predator, that's when it
turned around and defended itself."
The explorer was swallowed head first
and spent more than an hour inside the
giant snake, he said, adding that he
kept in touch with his team the whole
time.
He said he was scared that something
would go wrong, but at the same time,
"I was very excited to do it."
"You are going up against one of the
greatest predators of the planet and
doing something that no one has ever
done before," he said.
Anaconda doing well
He did not give details on how he was
freed from the snake, but he insisted
his team was careful not to harm it
and that he was the only one in danger.
"We didn't force the snake to do
anything, we didn't ask from the snake
anything out of the ordinary," Rosolie
said, explaining that "snakes very often
regurgitate if they're eating something
and a predator comes by, they have to
give up their meal so they can escape."
The anaconda is now doing well, he said.
But Rosolie has faced fierce criticism
from animal rights groups, including
from PETA, who said "the snake was
tormented and suffered for the sake
of ratings."
Rosolie said he even received death
threats.
But he wasn't fazed, saying the shock
value is important to increase attention
to his cause.
A fund linked to the show was set up
to raise awareness and money to
protect the Amazon and could also
allow for more research of anacondas
in their habitat.
After the US showing, "Eaten Alive" will
air on December 10 in Finland,
Denmark, Hungary, Poland and Sweden,
and two days later in Australia, before
being broadcast in other countries,
including China and India.
Discovery said it expect at least three
million viewers in the United States and
a million others around the world.
On 12/7/14, ogunlowo joseph <ogunlowojoseph@gmail.com> wrote:
> The PlayStation gaming console wrapped
> up its second decade on Wednesday, and
> Sony celebrated by looking to the past.
> The Japanese tech giant announced that a
> limited edition 20th Anniversary
> PlayStation 4 will be released soon. The
> console will be gray, like the first
> PlayStation released December 3, 1994 in
> Japan. It will include other imagery like the
> iconic four-color PlayStation logo that
> harks back to the system's history.
> "The mid-'90s were an exciting time for
> game developers, driven by the explosion
> of powerful but affordable 3-D graphics
> rendering hardware and the birth of many
> young and adventurous development
> studios," Shuhei Yoshida, president of Sony
> Computer Entertainment Worldwide
> Studios, wrote in the post on the
> PlayStation blog. "The original PlayStation
> was meant to embody that sense of
> adventure and discovery, that sense that
> anything was possible."
> The PlayStation sold a then unheard-of
> 100,000 units in its first weekend and hit 1
> million units in six months, according to
> Sony.
> Only 12,300 units of the 20th Anniversary
> PS4 will be released, according to a video
> on the blog post. Pre-orders will begin
> Saturday, and details about how to vie for
> one of the handful of slots will come
> during a keynote presentation from
> PlayStation Experience, a fan and
> developer expo being held in Las Vegas.
> The keynote will be Saturday at 1 pm ET.
> To celebrate the 20th anniversary, we
> assembled a gallery of images of the
> PlayStation, and the people who love it,
> from the past two decades.
>
> On 12/7/14, ogunlowo joseph <ogunlowojoseph@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Bond is back and we're pleased to have
>> all of the details of the new movie.
>> Director Sam Mendes revealed the
>> name and cast of the new movie,
>> Spectre, during a live event held at
>> London's Pinewood Studios.
>> The movie is set to be released on 6th
>> November 2015. Avid fans will know
>> Spectre stands for: Special Executive
>> for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism,
>> Revenge and Extortion,
>
>
>> On 12/7/14, ogunlowo joseph <ogunlowojoseph@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Gangnam Style hit music video by
>>> South Korean singer, PSY, has exceeded
>>> YouTube's view limit, prompting
>>> YouTube to upgrade its counter.
>>> The video which was released in 2012,
>>> was announced to be its most watched
>>> ever and has been viewed more than
>>> 2,147,483,647 times. YouTube has now
>>> changed the maximum view limit to
>>> 9,223,372,036,854,775,808, or more
>>> than nine quintillion.
>>> On December 1, YouTube posted a
>>> statement saying: "We never thought a
>>> video would be watched in numbers
>>> greater than a 32-bit integer… but
>>> that was before we met Psy."
>>> Meanwhile, how do you say
>>> 9,223,372,036,854,775,808? That's
>>> over a quadrillion, over a trillion, and
>>> over a billion.
>
>
>>> On 12/4/14, Joseph Ogunlowo <ogunlowojoseph@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Kim K has been named the "Most Searched
>>>> Person of 2014″, beating last year's winner,
>>>> Beyonce. 2014 was definitely the year of the 34
>>>> year old reality star with buzz-worthy events like
>>>> her wedding to Kanye, her Vogue cover and
>>>> most recently her 'break the internet' naked pics
>>>> for Paper magazine.
>>>> Beyonce comes second, while Miley Cyrus and
>>>> Katy Perry come 3rd and 4th respectively. See
>>>> the top ten most searched personalities of 2014
>>>> after the cut...
>>>> 1. Kim Kardashian
>>>> 2. Beyonce Knowles
>>>> 3. Miley Cyrus
>>>> 4. Katy Perry
>>>> 5. Justin Bieber
>>>> 6. Joan Rivers
>>>> 7. Jennifer Lopez
>>>> 8. Kendall Jenner
>>>> 9. Kaley Cuoco
>>>> 10. Robin Williams
>
>
>>>> On 12/3/14, Joseph Ogunlowo <ogunlowojoseph@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> At the Pioneers Festival in Vienna, a
>>>>> Slovakian startup called AeroMobil unveiled
>>>>> the thing that we have all been dreaming
>>>>> about since we saw that first episode of the
>>>>> Jetsons while still wearing diapers: The first
>>>>> flying car. It's here. It's real. And it's
>>>>> spectacular.
>>>>> According to Venturebeat, the company
>>>>> took the wraps off AeroMobil 3.0, the latest
>>>>> iteration of its flying car that has been in
>>>>> development for almost 25 years.
>>>>> "We believe personal transportation is about
>>>>> to change forever," said AeroMobil chief
>>>>> executive Juraj Vaculik at a press
>>>>> conference. "We think it's time to make
>>>>> transportation more emotional and more
>>>>> personal."
>>>>> The car was designed by Stefan Klein,
>>>>> founder and head of the Department of
>>>>> Transport Design at the Academy of Fine
>>>>> Arts in Slovakia. Klein had been tinkering
>>>>> with the concept as far back as 1989.
>>>>> Image
>>>>> The car needs very little runway to take off,
>>>>> and it can be refueled at any standard gas
>>>>> station when the wings are retracted.
>>>>> AeroMobil believes it will be attractive for
>>>>> countries that don't have billions of dollars
>>>>> to spend building a modern transportation
>>>>> infrastructure.
>>>>> The body is built from advanced composite
>>>>> materials that keep it lightweight but also
>>>>> durable. Under the hood, it has autopilot
>>>>> and an advanced parachute deployment
>>>>> system. The cockpit can carry two people,
>>>>> and in the air the flying car can reach top
>>>>> speeds of 200 km/h. It has a 27-foot
>>>>> wingspan and is 19.7 feet long.
>>>>> No word on the price tag.
>
>>>>> On 12/3/14, ogunlowo joseph <ogunlowojoseph@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> According to reports Angelina Jolie's black
>>>>>> SUV car slipped on a wet road, slid into the
>>>>>> curb with extreme force, popping two tires,
>>>>>> almost causing the driver to lose control of
>>>>>> the vehicle.
>>>>>> The actress was heading home in a
>>>>>> chauffeured black SUV from Writers' Guild
>>>>>> Theater, when the car hit the curb.
>>>>>> According to an eyewitness (who spoke ti
>>>>>> X17 Online): "The car slammed into the
>>>>>> curb at a significant speed. Angelina must
>>>>>> have wondered if they hit another car. It
>>>>>> was pretty bad -- the tire exploded and it's
>>>>>> amazing nothing worse happened to the
>>>>>> car. I wouldn't be surprised if she has
>>>>>> whiplash."
>>>>>> Angelina reportedly stayed in the car after
>>>>>> the incident and was later picked up, not
>>>>>> by Brad pitt, but by another driver from the
>>>>>> same car service.
>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Posted By ogunlowo joseph to entertainment,investing,education on
>>>>>> 12/03/2014 10:47:00 am
>
>
>
>
>>> --
>>> Posted By ogunlowo joseph to entertainment,investing,education on
>>> 12/07/2014 01:50:00 am
>
>
>> --
>> Posted By ogunlowo joseph to entertainment,investing,education on
>> 12/07/2014 03:24:00 am
>
>
> --
> Posted By ogunlowo joseph to entertainment,investing,education on
> 12/07/2014 06:03:00 am
>
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