On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:36:36 -0500, thunder
wrote:

On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 01:37:06 -0400, gfretwell wrote:

On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:57:04 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote:

Hi tech stuff:

http://www.nbc-2.com/global/story.asp?s=11194067


You would think a cold blooded animal would be hard to see but I guess
this IR stuff is getting that good.
Maybe that will be a good use for some of the surplus UAVs when they hit
the market.
You could orbit a UAV and let them direct the teams on the water. It
would be a lot better than giving them to the cops, which is probably
what will happen. That seems to be where a lot of surplus military
equipment ends up.

I was wondering about cold blooded myself. Another problem I can see, OK
it works great for very large snakes, that could only be pythons, but how
about smaller snakes? I don't know how large pythons have to be before
they become breeders, but even small ones, will eventually become
breeders.

Do you know, is it too late to eradicate them? Is this just to control
their numbers?

From the number mentioned in the article, eradication would seem
impossible:

"The non-native snakes are running amuck in the Everglades - with a
population estimated at over 100,000 in south Florida."

BTW, did you get my 'thank you' for noticing the rear wheel
mismounting? They fixed it.
--

John H