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In the United States you have about a one in 50 million chance of dying from snake bite; five people die a year from snake bites. Cars alone kill 100k to milli

by nxzero 10y ago

In the United States you have about a one in 50 million chance of dying from snake bite; five people die a year from snake bites. Cars alone kill 100k to million snakes a year; not to mention how many people they kill too. Please stay in the city if your afraid of animals.

BearOso 10y ago
Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/795/ https://xkcd.com/795/ If you never leave an urban area, your chances are even lower than one in 50 million. But if you live in a house on this particular lake, how many orders of magnitude does that chance increase if they dump thousands of snakes nearby?
- nxzero 10y ago
  Only 5 people a year are killed by snakes, while tens of thousands are killed by cars. As for having 1000s of snake nearby, no, I don't think it would make for any meaningful increase in danger; I've seen someone go into a cave full of thousands of rattlesnakes; hint, nothing bad happened. If you read the notes on the link below, most of the deaths sound avoidable; aka leave snakes alone, know how to treat a snake bite, get medical attention, etc. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_snake_bites_in_the_United_States https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_snake_bites_in...
  - ivanhoe 10y ago
    Well, I'm sure people would also object if someone decides to bring thousands of cars to their neighbourhood :) Speaking of snakes (or any other dangerous animal) it's not a fair statistics to count in just the deadly encounters. One should take into the account also how much the local population had to modify their behaviour to avoid those attacks. Statistics say that sharks rarely attack people, but also it's a fact that people don't go that often into the water in the areas with dangerous shark populations. Same thing with other dangerous animals like gators or poisonous spiders or scorpions. You learn to avoid risky behaviour and take extra care of pets and children, so stats of deadly attacks are low, but it comes at extra cost for people living there not being able to be relaxed and do things they otherwise would be doing.

by nxzero 10y ago

BearOso 10y ago

Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/795/ https://xkcd.com/795/ If you never leave an urban area, your chances are even lower than one in 50 million. But if you live in a house on this particular lake, how many orders of magnitude does that chance increase if they dump thousands of snakes nearby?

nxzero 10y ago
Only 5 people a year are killed by snakes, while tens of thousands are killed by cars. As for having 1000s of snake nearby, no, I don't think it would make for any meaningful increase in danger; I've seen someone go into a cave full of thousands of rattlesnakes; hint, nothing bad happened. If you read the notes on the link below, most of the deaths sound avoidable; aka leave snakes alone, know how to treat a snake bite, get medical attention, etc. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_snake_bites_in_the_United_States https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_snake_bites_in...
- ivanhoe 10y ago
  Well, I'm sure people would also object if someone decides to bring thousands of cars to their neighbourhood :) Speaking of snakes (or any other dangerous animal) it's not a fair statistics to count in just the deadly encounters. One should take into the account also how much the local population had to modify their behaviour to avoid those attacks. Statistics say that sharks rarely attack people, but also it's a fact that people don't go that often into the water in the areas with dangerous shark populations. Same thing with other dangerous animals like gators or poisonous spiders or scorpions. You learn to avoid risky behaviour and take extra care of pets and children, so stats of deadly attacks are low, but it comes at extra cost for people living there not being able to be relaxed and do things they otherwise would be doing.