Comment on I’m watching something on tv and a dude strangled another dude with rattle snake. Is that possible? What’s the tensile strength of a snake?

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core@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

The forces may be similar but the application is different. If a snake is strangling someone its flexing its muscles to construct prey, if its being used to strangle someone its being stretched. At what point does the snake body tear apart?

If the snake were resisting the stretch the force required to test it apart would be higher because you’d have to overcome the constriction/flexing force.

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