Fauxnaki
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Post by Fauxnaki on Dec 21, 2017 11:39:16 GMT -5
He's still real to me dammit!
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Dec 21, 2017 12:26:56 GMT -5
Why is it so impossible to believe that an unknown primate could be living in remote wooded areas? Perhaps we're thinking about how it should exist instead of simply thinking outside of the box. There are a lot of woods out there, caves, and mountains that have yet to be explored so there's no telling what's walking and living out there. It's simply naïve in my opinion to say "Oh, there's nothing out there. It's all just folklore." Because from a science standpoint, it's just not true. First and foremost, there's no fossil record of North American primates. There just isn't. Even if you ignore that, there's no reflection on the food chain anywhere that there would be if something the size of these animals was out there. Whether you wanna say they're carnivore, herbivore, or omnivore they'd make some impact on the food chain and there isn't any. If you want to ignore that, you get into the fact that there would be thousands of theae things to have a viable breeding population, particularly spread out all over the country. And there's just not. If you want to ignore that, then there's the facr that there aren't areas in the continental US that are as unexplored as they would need to be for these things to hide. If you ignore all of that, there's the fact that there is not one piece of evidence that has ever stood up to scientific scrutiny. The last 5 words there are important-stood up to scientific scrutiny. Not one piece, never ever. We can think'outside the box' and imagine anything. But that is not science.
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Push R Truth
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Post by Push R Truth on Dec 21, 2017 12:38:22 GMT -5
Why is it so impossible to believe that an unknown primate could be living in remote wooded areas? Perhaps we're thinking about how it should exist instead of simply thinking outside of the box. There are a lot of woods out there, caves, and mountains that have yet to be explored so there's no telling what's walking and living out there. It's simply naïve in my opinion to say "Oh, there's nothing out there. It's all just folklore." Because from a science standpoint, it's just not true. First and foremost, there's no fossil record of North American primates. There just isn't. Even if you ignore that, there's no reflection on the food chain anywhere that there would be if something the size of these animals was out there. Whether you wanna say they're carnivore, herbivore, or omnivore they'd make some impact on the food chain and there isn't any. If you want to ignore that, you get into the fact that there would be thousands of theae things to have a viable breeding population, particularly spread out all over the country. And there's just not. If you want to ignore that, then there's the facr that there aren't areas in the continental US that are as unexplored as they would need to be for these things to hide. If you ignore all of that, there's the fact that there is not one piece of evidence that has ever stood up to scientific scrutiny. The last 5 words there are important-stood up to scientific scrutiny. Not one piece, never ever. We can think'outside the box' and imagine anything. But that is not science. That's exactly the kind of bullshit that Bigfoot wants us to think! He's tries to... wait... wait. You, YOU are Bigfoot! He's trying to throw us off his trail with logic and reasoning! Somebody call the drunk hillbillies with shotguns, I think I found the bastard! We gotta catch him before he gets his ass to Mars or diffuses into the elemental plane!
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Post by hossfan on Dec 21, 2017 13:46:50 GMT -5
If they existed, the minute they went from folklore to species, they're a hundred times less interesting.As is, there can be the romanticism of myth. Once they became a classified animal, they're just an animal. It's a moot point, since they are in no way real, but the last thing Bigfoot hunters and such want is to actually find an animal. Outside of the initial discovery, all that $ is then gone. I think the opposite is true actually. Discovering a new species of large primate in North America would be a huge deal, just in terms of evolutionary science alone. Plus there's the matter of answering the question "If Bigfoot really does exist, how come it took us until X date to prove it?"
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Dec 21, 2017 13:52:49 GMT -5
For the initial discoverer, sure. But it's hard times for all those other guys makin $ off the folklore.
Plus, then you'd have real scientists moving in, probably cutting the initial discoverer out.
That's all hypothetical though, since there's nothing to find.
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Post by Hit Girl on Dec 21, 2017 15:28:29 GMT -5
Just create Bigfoot using genetic engineering and DNA.
25% gorilla, 25% bear, and 50% Strowman.
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Post by sabretooth on Dec 21, 2017 16:35:02 GMT -5
Why does no one investigate Moondogs? We have video evidence of many of them, but no idea where they come from, what species those bones are from, or where they get their torn jorts and belt ropes.
Screw Bigfoot, the 'Dogs have held championship gold. Has Bigfoot?
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chrom
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Post by chrom on Dec 21, 2017 16:59:31 GMT -5
The better Myth that needs to be made into Fact is how much Moonshine was consumed by the people who claim they saw it.
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Ultimo Gallos
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Dec 21, 2017 19:07:51 GMT -5
The better Myth that needs to be made into Fact is how much Moonshine was consumed by the people who claim they saw it. Oddly my two uncles that use to make moonshine 40 years ago have never seen Bigfoot.
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Push R Truth
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Post by Push R Truth on Dec 21, 2017 19:12:49 GMT -5
The better Myth that needs to be made into Fact is how much Moonshine was consumed by the people who claim they saw it. Oddly my two uncles that use to make moonshine 40 years ago have never seen Bigfoot. I thought it was clear that you had to consume the moonshine to enter the spirit world to see Bigfoot, not merely make it.
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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on Dec 21, 2017 19:22:13 GMT -5
So is a Bigfoot and a Yet-ay in the same family, like an Alligator and a Crocodile, or are they two different things?
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Ultimo Gallos
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Dec 21, 2017 20:14:32 GMT -5
Oddly my two uncles that use to make moonshine 40 years ago have never seen Bigfoot. I thought it was clear that you had to consume the moonshine to enter the spirit world to see Bigfoot, not merely make it. I am sure those two uncles and a few other members of that side of the family have consumed some moonshine.
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Post by RedSmile on Dec 21, 2017 23:32:21 GMT -5
I've heard enough stories of people encountering wildlife, such as moose and elk, at a distance and saying that they thought it "looked like a really big hairy dude at first" to have a really good idea on how the Bigfoot legend probably started.
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Post by Sephiroth on Dec 22, 2017 1:55:50 GMT -5
Why is it so impossible to believe that an unknown primate could be living in remote wooded areas? Perhaps we're thinking about how it should exist instead of simply thinking outside of the box. There are a lot of woods out there, caves, and mountains that have yet to be explored so there's no telling what's walking and living out there. It's simply naïve in my opinion to say "Oh, there's nothing out there. It's all just folklore." Because from a science standpoint, it's just not true. First and foremost, there's no fossil record of North American primates. There just isn't. Even if you ignore that, there's no reflection on the food chain anywhere that there would be if something the size of these animals was out there. Whether you wanna say they're carnivore, herbivore, or omnivore they'd make some impact on the food chain and there isn't any. If you want to ignore that, you get into the fact that there would be thousands of theae things to have a viable breeding population, particularly spread out all over the country. And there's just not. If you want to ignore that, then there's the facr that there aren't areas in the continental US that are as unexplored as they would need to be for these things to hide. If you ignore all of that, there's the fact that there is not one piece of evidence that has ever stood up to scientific scrutiny. The last 5 words there are important-stood up to scientific scrutiny. Not one piece, never ever. We can think'outside the box' and imagine anything. But that is not science. No evidence of a North American primate? You’ve never been in my apartment complex.
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Dec 22, 2017 3:06:28 GMT -5
The people that have claimed to have seen Bigfoot are sure they didn’t just wander into a nudist colony and just saw a large hairy man?
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Post by Zombie Mod is not a ghoul. on Dec 22, 2017 19:00:32 GMT -5
The better Myth that needs to be made into Fact is how much Moonshine was consumed by the people who claim they saw it. Oddly my two uncles that use to make moonshine 40 years ago have never seen Bigfoot. bigfoot is more of a romulan ale fan.
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Post by jimwilliams on Dec 23, 2017 2:03:58 GMT -5
Not an investigator, but growing up, we used to hunt around Fouke Arkansas, the home of the Boggy Creek creature. Never seen any evidence, but a tiny part of me hopes it could be real. At the very least it gave us a great MST3K episode.
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Post by Hit Girl on Dec 23, 2017 11:40:24 GMT -5
I don't want any of these mythic creatures to really exist, because if they did, they'd be killed and eaten.
I'd be very disappointed if I went to my local supermarket and saw Nessie burgers in the freezers and chupacabra testicles in the foreign foods aisle.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2017 12:17:36 GMT -5
That’s because Sasquatch are actually people. They can transform like werewolves... duh.
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jagilki
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Post by jagilki on Dec 23, 2017 12:25:24 GMT -5
Geez, reading real quick, I thought this was "people who invest in Bigfoot" for a second there.
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