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International Bigfoot Symposium

Posted by michael on from the real-world-furries dept.

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."

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  1. Big foot is about as real as by Jacer · · Score: 4, Insightful

    .... 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
  2. I think this sums up the article... by Narphorium · · Score: 4, Insightful
    "In any event, it's a good excuse to go camping, and it adds some color to our mundane lives."

    That's just about all there is to it.

  3. Re:It must be real because "real scientists" say s by smitty45 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.