Discovery Channel has been pushing a extra calledEaten Aliveover the last month , and it finally aired last night . The special sport 27 - year - old naturalist Paul Rosolie , who bust a “ snake proof suit ” and planned to live through getting swallowed by a 20 - foundation - long anaconda .
Anacondas of this size of it can easily eat big mammalian like jaguars , deer , and pigs , so swallowing a human should n’t have been a job . Though Discovery went through nifty lengths to plan a suit that would protect the man against the serpent ’s fang , concretion , and abdomen acid , they appeared to neglect one bantam detail : Rosolie did n’t look at all like something a gargantuan anaconda might need to eat . Indeed , when the crew last line up the pick out Snake River , it really was n’t concerned in attempt to eat a human dress up like the Tinman .
In fact , when Rosolie first made contact with the snake , it was afraid and tried to break away . What to do when you ’ve hyped up a show this much and the star is n’t interested ? Rather than making the determination to call the whole thing off , Rosolie determine to provoke the fauna instead . Only then did the snake in the grass attempt , biting and squeezing the armoured intruder . However , it appear that Rosolie was n’t quite prepared for the reality of being constricted by an anaconda , and call in the crew to rescue him .
Did n’t trance it last night ? Save yourself two hours and see the anti - climactic death the right way here :
Though thousands of people read to Twitter to express scandalisation that there was n’t a military man eat by an Eunectes murinus , it ’s likely for the best . The only fashion for Rosolie to have gotten out of the Hydra ’s belly would have been for the work party to vote out the snake and cut him out . Though this stunt was touted as a way to bring up awareness about the Amazon and its biodiversity — include the Eunectes murinus — this was n’t scientific in nature at all , and did n’t seek to profit anyone except Discovery ’s bottom line and Rosolie ’s repute .
Check out some of the tweets sent in response to the show :
Hey@discovery , can I have my own show?#EatenAlivepic.twitter.com / OLEZykn1sx
— BarstoolTrent ( @BarstoolTrent)December 8 , 2014
Sorry that " Eaten Alive " cat did n’t get eaten by a Snake River . Maybe this will help.http://t.co/ZR8vl5yBKNpic.twitter.com/4uSRA26eUp
— SB Nation ( @SBNation)December 8 , 2014
I can relate to this#EatenAliveguy . I ’ve been wrap up in my comforter a little too tight and had trouble breathing . Not impressed .
— Chase McDonald ( @ChaseMcDonald3)December 8 , 2014
Geraldo should n’t finger as bad about Al Capone ’s Vault this dayspring after last night’s#EatenAlive@Discovery@GeraldoRivera
— ron corning ( @roncorning)December 8 , 2014
