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Post by Rob Allen on Aug 15, 2018 17:48:05 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2018 2:05:42 GMT -5
I watch a lot of Bigfoot Documentaries on TV and I believe that Bigfoot exists and people been reporting it for decades to follow. I met a man back in the year 1997 that he seen Bigfoot in the Olympic Mountains about 90 yards from standing. He tried to get a snapshot of it and the Bigfoot got away when he just got his camera out. He was nervous and hiking with two other buddies and managed to walk back 5-6 miles to their car and never seen it again. They just saw it for 15 seconds or so and froze and forgot to take a picture of it. They estimated the height between 7 to 8 feet and weigh around 400 pounds or so. Alas, Avatar Man, I regret to say that Bigfoot does not exist. It's not just a matter of such a creature being shy and reclusive, which is the usual explanation for why there are no pictures of it and only a few unsubstantiated reports of sightings. It's also that if there were any kind of giant hominid currently living in America, we'd find the same kind of evidence as for every other animal, both living and extinct. We would find bigfoot corpses from time to time, we would find bigfoot bones, we would find bigfoot scat, we would have documented bigfoot tracks. We'd also, and this is the most important point, find ancestors of bigfoot in the fossil record... and we don't. We don't, even though we find all sorts of evidence for other creatures like the T. rex, the basilosaurus or the giant ground sloth, which have all been gone for millions of years. All the alleged samples taken from bigfoot turned out to be from other animals. Now if Bigfoot resembled a human, I could buy the idea that he's hiding somewhere out there in the deep forest; after all, any trace of his existence would be indistinguishable from that of regular folks. But even a chimpanzee bone would immediately be identified as non-human, so the bones of a 7 or 8 foot tall brute would immediately raise a flag. If Bigfoot lives, it is only in our imagination. I recommend the very entertaining book on cryptids, Abominable science!, for more details on the modern evolution of the bigfoot story. I was surprised to learn how recent it is! Right now ... I'm 49/51 percent in favor of not believing in Bigfoot. I read that book Abominable Science and I have talked to several Professors in the field of Cryptozoology in the past 2-3 months and several additional televised documentaries that I've not seen yet ... I'm leaning towards to the direction of that Bigfoot does not exist. However, that book is entertaining enough but it's has some flaws that I just can't put my finger on and may take awhile to understand it. I borrowed that book from a friend of mine and planning on purchasing a copy for myself. Excellent Book ... by the way. He is getting me a copy of it in a month. However, if Bigfoot exists -- and hopefully in my lifetime, that's would be a breaking news event; and a shock to the world and everything that we know will change forever. I'm looking forward for that event and that event alone. But, I've mixed feelings on the existence of Bigfoot and sad to say that I'm moving to the side of unbelief for now and that's where I'm stand. Thanks for reading it. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2018 0:26:19 GMT -5
Was the mysterious Oumuamus object spotted in our solar system late last year an alien probe?Harvard researchers raise the possibility it was an artificially created light sail object based on movement and acceleration patterns. Other scientists are lining up to refute the hypothesis, and the object has left the solar system and is now beyond telescope range, so we will likely never know (at least until the mother ship that sent it shows up that is  ) I somehow missed the initial news reports about this object, but caught the headlines about the hypothesis today. -M
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Post by Confessor on Nov 10, 2018 21:33:51 GMT -5
Surprised you didn't hear about this at the time, mrp. The Oumuamua asteroid was pretty big news as is whistled through our solar system a year or so back.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2018 23:15:44 GMT -5
Surprised you didn't hear about this at the time, mrp. The Oumuamua asteroid was pretty big news as is whistled through our solar system a year or so back. It might have happened while I was recovering from surgery and not online much. Pretty much for 3 months the only news I got was the local daily news, and that kind of stuff rarely makes any of our local stations. -M |
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Post by brutalis on Nov 16, 2018 13:21:04 GMT -5
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Nov 16, 2018 15:57:54 GMT -5
Well, the Death Star is already in our solar system!  |
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Post by Jesse on Nov 19, 2018 23:41:29 GMT -5
Thought this was trippy. Some TED-Ed animations are really interesting.
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Post by berkley on Nov 20, 2018 4:16:49 GMT -5
Surprised you didn't hear about this at the time, mrp. The Oumuamua asteroid was pretty big news as is whistled through our solar system a year or so back. And yet, as far as I know, not a single song has been written about it!
I say that with tongue in cheek only partly, because anyone who remembers the early 70s will also remember the Comet Kohoutek, which was a bit of a fizzle as far as the spectacle it had been expected to provide goes, but which somehow made such a splash in pop-culture that several bands actually did write and record tracks inspired by it. For example Kraftwerk's Kometenmelodie and Argent's Coming of Kohoutek.
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Post by Confessor on Nov 20, 2018 5:32:41 GMT -5
Surprised you didn't hear about this at the time, mrp. The Oumuamua asteroid was pretty big news as is whistled through our solar system a year or so back. And yet, as far as I know, not a single song has been written about it! I say that with tongue in cheek only partly, because anyone who remembers the early 70s will also remember the Comet Kohoutek, which was a bit of a fizzle as far as the spectacle it had been expected to provide goes, but which somehow made such a splash in pop-culture that several bands actually did write and record tracks inspired by it. For example Kraftwerk's Kometenmelodie and Argent's Coming of Kohoutek. ...and R.E.M.'s "Kohoutek" from 1985's Fables of the Reconstruction album. Actually, that song isn't really about the comet itself, but instead uses the celestial visitor as an analogy for lost love: "like Kohoutek, you were gone", referring to the fact that the comet won't be seen in our skies again for another 75,000 years. I love Kraftwerk's "Kometenmelodie" too. |
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Post by berkley on Nov 20, 2018 6:09:11 GMT -5
And yet, as far as I know, not a single song has been written about it! I say that with tongue in cheek only partly, because anyone who remembers the early 70s will also remember the Comet Kohoutek, which was a bit of a fizzle as far as the spectacle it had been expected to provide goes, but which somehow made such a splash in pop-culture that several bands actually did write and record tracks inspired by it. For example Kraftwerk's Kometenmelodie and Argent's Coming of Kohoutek. ...and R.E.M.'s "Kohoutek" from 1985's Fables of the Reconstruction album. Actually, that song isn't really about the comet itself, but instead uses the celestial visitor as an analogy for lost love: "like Kohoutek, you were gone", referring to the fact that the comet won't be seen in our skies again for another 75,000 years. I love Kraftwerk's "Kometenmelodie" too.
That has to be the pick of them, though I have a soft spot for the unapologetic prog-i-ness of the Argent song - actually a suite of three tracks on the album.
Didn't know about the REM track, or don't remember it, because I have listened to that album, though not for many years.
I thought there was one by one of my favourite Canadian bands, the Stampeders, but can't find a likely title on any of their albums' track listings. I might have been thinking of another song of theirs that was based on early-70s pop-culture pseudo-science, "Chariots of the Gods". I'll post the video in one of the music threads, since I feel bad for cluttering up the science thread with this music talk.
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Post by beccabear67 on Nov 20, 2018 14:15:57 GMT -5
The big Kohoutek track for me was the pre-Steve Perry Journey's Kohoutek.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Dec 3, 2018 6:50:52 GMT -5
I just caught the live feed of David St-Jacques taking off in a Soyouz rocket to go to the ISS.
It brought back great memories, from the days I'd skip school to go see the space shuttle on its maiden flight.
I really hope we’ll not give up our dreams of exploring space, as a species, and won’t let our politics screw things up.
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Post by brutalis on Dec 3, 2018 8:27:41 GMT -5
I just caught the live feed of David St-Jacques taking off in a Soyouz rocket to go to the ISS. It brought back great memories, from the days Ikd skip school to go see the space shuttle on its maiden flight. I really hope we’ll not give up our dreams of exploring space, as a species, and won’t let our politics screw things up. I remember being allowed to stay home for the shuttle launch and moon landing coverage. Actually had a record set of the moon landing narrated by Walter Cronkite. These were REAL moments of greatness that took science-fiction/fantasy from the books to becoming reality and inspired the world. The world truly needs such inventiveness and commonality to help unite and drive us a unified whole lifting us from the petty bigotry, racism, ignorance and stupidity. |
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Post by beccabear67 on Dec 3, 2018 12:31:09 GMT -5
Astronauts are real heroes to me. Maybe because I have an instinctual fear of being in the air with nothing underneath (don't drive with me on cliff edge roads with no guard rails, in the fog, at dusk heading to Bolinas, with headlights coming at us and the road signs having gone missing). Apparently my parents held me up to the tv set when the Apollo 11 moon landing was being broadcast. Isn't it amazing the various powers can co-operate on space related activity as much as they still seem to... probably as much because they want to have a co-production to show to taxpayers they aren't footing the entire bill as anything more noble. Google Chris Hadfield Space Oddity HD youtube! A Canadian, singing and playing guitar in outer space of all places!  |
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