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International Bigfoot Symposium
DaytonCIM writes "Yup, that's right the creature that took on Steve Austin (no, not the drunk and bloated pro wrastler, but the REAL Six Million Dollar Man) has legions who gather to debate and discuss his furriness. The International Bigfoot Symposium is going on right now.
SFGate also has a nice article on the grand meeting."
.... a sexy, available, female nerd. We would all like it to exist. The fairy-tale aspect of it is too grand to not want, but sooner or later we come to terms with the truth.
--fetch daddy's blue fright wig, i must be handsome when i release my rage
Can we please have some articles about real science, and not hoaxes, lies, and scientific blunders?
"Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives" should be a convenience store, not a government agency.
That's just about all there is to it.
This is news for nerds, not news for nuts.
-No sig here, move along now.
Harry and the Hendersons(1987) with John Lithgow, Melinda Dillon with a guest spot by Don Ameche. That Lithgow phone call to the cops ranks as one of the funniest scenes of '80s Hollywood (well before his 3rd Rock thing) - and "...nip it in the bud..." has new meaning for me now.
One reviewer here calls it the "Best Movie Ever Made" but I think that's a stretch...
some thoughts:
there are MANY species of animals, who have been discovered, by cryptozoologists, just in the past 100 years, and their existence was suspected many years before the evidence was 'captured' or skeletal remains were found. Let me know if you'd like for me to cite examples.
as to your questions about "why none have been captured" is basically a question of funding. There's a reason why no one has done a full, high-resolution sonar scan of LochNess, too. it's because for an issue so wrought with hoaxes, no one in their right mind would fund such an expensive venture.
"nor are there any skeletons of such. Despite all of the searching for such."
yeah ? by who ? WHO has done all this searching ?
the people at this conference, whose budgets are made in their spare time because their universities won't fund the searches ? the fact is, NO major search for evidence has EVER taken place, because of opinions like yours.
"Having a theory about why something could have happened is worthless."
I'm sure that Historians, Anthropologists, and Paleontologists would love to hear your theories on that, as would the governments and universities who put money into all of those pursuits.
I believe that there is at least a possibility of bigfoot existing, and unless your name happens to be God, I doubt you have the qualifications to disprove its existence. There is plenty of evidence: hair, scat, pictures, video, footprints, and other casts that show this is a mystery worthy of further scientific investigation. To disprove bigfoot's existence requires the simultaneous examination of every square foot of millions of acres of dense forest, so let me know when you can accomplish this. Otherwise save your absolute judgements for things you can know absolutely.
what sig?