Dot:	OMG OMG OMG OMG GIANT SNAKE NEWS!!!!!!!!
Dot:	http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/05/science/earth/05snake.html?ref=science
Me:	The good part of that is that the snake has been dead for quite some time right?
Dot:	Are you scared of SNAKES?
Me:	Not like Indiana Jones is, but snakes that weigh more than a ton? Yes, that would cause me to mess myself...
Dot:	But you would be bigger, too . . . Maybe (?)
Dot:	I don't know how that would work, exactly -- if humans had been around at that time . . .
Me:	Not big enough is the answer. I would need to be like 50 feet tall before I felt comfortable around that thing.
Me:	I doubt that thing had many natural predators. It probably died of being too full.
Dot:	Shit was just bigger back then.
Dot:	I bet a mega-alligator ate it or something . ..
Me:	It probably tried, until the mega-snake broke the alligators neck and then ate it in one bite...
Dot:	Now I want video footage
Dot:	Remember that show on discovery that pit animals that would never meet in real life against each other?
Dot:	That was a bad-ass show
Dot:	they had shit like "shark v. tiger"
Me:	just re-read the lede. The thing hunted crocodiles... No discovery show would be needed. The snake would win.
Dot:	Now I want one as a pet . . .
Dot:	Have I told you about my plant to acquire an octopus and train it to take over the world?
Dot:	It's a good plan
Me:	How will you capture landlocked parts of the world? They have no natural fear of the octupus. And Japan would be likely to eat it...
Dot:	I am utterly convinced cephalopods are the next big thing in evolution.
Dot:	I would have to create a hovercraft, or something, so Octavius the Conqueror could get around . .
Me:	Well, good luck. Just remember who your friends were before you got your trained octupus.