HOLY FREAKING CRAP.

That's creepy as fuck.

there is a fairly high number of cases where somebody gets bit by the decapitated head of a snake...especially because they assume it's dead.

That made me jump in my chair. Very freaky. It almost looked robotic in the beginning... until that bite attempt. Yeah, they always say to bury the head... for good reason.

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I believe this could happen, but it looks fake in this video. Like it's being controlled by something buried underneath it. It's probably real, just sayin'.

*fear!

Adding video to channels (Fear) - requested by maatc.

In addition to scaring the hell out of the family, sounds like it also scared the shit out of a bird, an elephant, and a cow.

upvote for the scream. scared me more than the snake

It freaks me out the things that can keep on working (for some time) after the rest of the body is gone.

Years and years ago after catching a trout, my friend killed it (as you do if you're going to eat it) and cut the heart out. Putting the heart, on its own, in a glass jar... it kept pumping, it was pumping the water through it.

For... a good 10 minutes! It would stop, you'd bump the glass, and it's start up again for a little bit.

Damn, damn freaky... where the hell did it get the energy to do it was my thought?

Weird.

OMG i'm gonna have nightmares

I've killed a fair share of snakes in my time (once with a logging chain, but that's a different story) and both the body and head tend to stay animated for a few minutes at least. I was always told it was just the body twitching and such. Maybe snakes just have a weird nervous system that keeps just sending signals for a minute or two.

can I just say that as big a fan as I am of slow-mo, that was a completely unnecessary use. please people, use some discretion.

Videos like these are why I love this website.

fake without a video

>> ^spoco2:
where the hell did it get the energy to do it was my thought?

Energy is produced and stored by the individual cells of an organism, so cellular processes can continue until the individual cells expend their energy stores.

>> ^Lordoderus:
Maybe snakes just have a weird nervous system that keeps just sending signals for a minute or two.

This probably happens because the snake's nervous system is not weird, with a brain located in the skull. Again, as long as the individual cells have some remaining energy stores, they will continue to function. The rest of this is speculation on my part, but it's possible all the snake "knows" is that his whole body just went numb and he's getting increasingly groggy. Tail whipping could be a result of now-uninhibited spinal neurons firing more-or-less randomly.

WTF are you going to eat you retard!

Why do you think they stopped using the guillotine in the middle ages? Cause they discovered that we remain alive for as long as a minute afterwords. The machine was invented as a 'humane' way to put people to death, when in fact it simply prolonged it compared to a well performed hanging or beheading.

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The guillotine is a well performed beheading. And, hypothetically anyway, I would rather take my chances with 'as long as a minute afterwords' than days for a hanging. One guy supposedly walked away after 3 days of hanging, so they changed the lay to read 'until dead' in case 3 days wasn't enough.

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a lot of the time they would let people go if they went for very long without dying in a hanging, claiming divine intervention. why they didn't just shoot the hanging body will forever be a mystery.

That thing under your desk right now... well, just don't move too quickly...

"To Treat the Dead: The new science of resuscitation is changing the way doctors think about heart attacks—and death itself."

Newsweek, May 7, 2007.

"Consider someone who has just died of a heart attack. His organs are intact, he hasn't lost blood. All that's happened is his heart has stopped beating—the definition of "clinical death"—and his brain has shut down to conserve oxygen. But what has actually died?"



It turns out the death process is a little more complicated than once thought.

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Persephone asks: Why is there a cow mooing at the end?

>> ^dag:
Persephone asks: Why is there a cow mooing at the end?


Because their voiceboxes are incapable of screaming in horror like humans? X D

"From the gates of hell i strike at thee"

yea, in like, fourth grade i remember hearing that a snake head could still bite you after it was cut off, but i assumed that meant like, the jaws snapped shut or it made a final lunge forward, NOT THAT THE DAMN THING WAS STILL ALIVE!!

>> ^chilaxe:
It turns out the death process is a little more complicated than once thought.

I think the biggest issue behind our misunderstanding of death was viewing life at the level of the organism. Once you recognize that a given organism is simply a collection of cells the process of death (not to mention disease or dysfunction) begins to make a lot more sense. However, there's still the prickly matter of consciousness, which not only throws a spanner into the works on the matter of death, but even defies our currently accepted model of the physical universe.

^ "but even defies our currently accepted model of the physical universe."

I would like to think that, and have in the past, but I've come to the conclusion that the prosaic materialist definition of consciousness has more evidence for it.

At any rate, I hope to live to the time when science lets us definitively understand these kinds of mysteries.