Don't know if anything will ever top Flaming Bat Bombs on the outrageous scale

namegoeshere: I wish I could see that! All those tiny little parachutes falling from the sky...

What do you mean, that's not how they do it?

Try RTFA

"One effort has involved air-dropping mice that have been laced with poison and fitted with parachutes out of helicopters. It provides a deadly dinner for any unsuspecting snakes below."

namegoeshere: sammyk: namegoeshere: I wish I could see that! All those tiny little parachutes falling from the sky...

What do you mean, that's not how they do it?

Try RTFA

"One effort has involved air-dropping mice that have been laced with poison and fitted with parachutes out of helicopters. It provides a deadly dinner for any unsuspecting snakes below."

Lol, now I'm happy.

They could have given us video of said mouse drop. Or even better a helmet cam on the little jihad rodents!

That's mad science in the making


/I love it

They have snake-sniffing dogs check every box of cargo leaving the island 24/7.

"Letting the snakes on a plane could have devastating consequences"

/mother-farkin' snakes

I'll tell you what was creepy about walking through the Guamanian jungle at dusk: the eerie "clack-clack-clack" of coconut crabs feeding. You'd see clusters of them, gathered at a feeding spot, with the soft claking sound going. I was just waiting for them to Zerg rush me....

/spent a year on Guam one month....
/Hafa Adai dudes!

I'd go with streamers instead of parachutes. That would probably be sufficient for the mass of a mouse. The hard part would be placing it where mice could chew it off even if they were hanging from the string in a tree... although you need to make it take too long to chew off, so they don't free themselves before launch or in midair.

Or else airdrop flying squirrels.

HotIgneous Intruder: Snakes a problem?
Why not just kill them all on sight?
Offer a $5 bounty per snake.

Yep, I was just going to suggest that.

Set up a fund worth twice the expected cost (2 million snakes x $5 per snake x 2) = $20 million. The unused funds would be earning enough interest to completely fund the eradication. Make the bounty untaxable and simply pay it in cash no questions asked so that it doesn't reduce things like public benefits (welfare, unemployment, disability, etc.). People who are unemployed, or who just want some extra spending money, would decimate the snake population in short order.

You might never get completely rid of them, but a bounty system like that would be cheaper than parachuting poisoned mice (which *HAS* to cost more than $5 per mouse, and there is no guarantee a snake will take the bait).

If the snakes are as numerous as I've heard, it's probably not a big deal to kill two or three in an hour on average. You could probably make a decent living doing that.

The locals call the snake induced power outages "Brown outs"

Ironicly enough, they snakes also have something they call "Brown out"

sammyk: namegoeshere: sammyk: namegoeshere: I wish I could see that! All those tiny little parachutes falling from the sky...

What do you mean, that's not how they do it?

Try RTFA

"One effort has involved air-dropping mice that have been laced with poison and fitted with parachutes out of helicopters. It provides a deadly dinner for any unsuspecting snakes below."

Lol, now I'm happy.

They could have given us video of said mouse drop. Or even better a helmet cam on the little jihad rodents!

Jahadi Rodents had better be the name of a slam-punk band in Ridyah or there is something fundamentally wrong with the universe.

The scientists are thinking too small.

I would have started with this:

and worked my way up.

HotIgneous Intruder: Snakes a problem?
Why not just kill them all on sight?
Offer a $5 bounty per snake.

The British tried that with cobras when they ruled India, it led to a massive increase in the cobra population as people started breeding them just so they could kill them and get the bounties.

Saiga410: What is the cost to cage breed snakes? Hmmmm I wonder if I can breed 20000 snakes a year?

Probably more than $5 per snake. After all, you have to feed them in order to breed them, and you have to feed their offspring, at least some minimal amount so that they survive long enough for you to collect the bounty. Then you have to maintain their habitat in at least some minimal fashion so that you aren't losing money by having them escape.

Now, if the bounty were up around $20 per snake or higher, I could see where that might be a problem. Not at $5, though.

Magorn: HotIgneous Intruder: Snakes a problem?
Why not just kill them all on sight?
Offer a $5 bounty per snake.

The British tried that with cobras when they ruled India, it led to a massive increase in the cobra population as people started breeding them just so they could kill them and get the bounties.

They set the bounty too high. Or didn't take into account the extreme poverty in India and the fact that they had been keeping captive cobras for centuries, or that there is a huge range in India where they can live. None of those are issues in Guam.

If you set an appropriate bounty that is high enough to make people interested in collecting it, but low enough that breeding them for bounty purposes isn't attractive, you've hit the right economic 'sweet spot'.

Maybe you can set a sliding scale, so that snakes under a certain length only get half the bounty.