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US Scientists Invited To Russian Yeti Hunt
First time accepted submitter Lindan9 writes "After an apparent increase of yeti sightings in the Kemerovo and Altai region of Siberia, a group of scientists from around the world are meeting to examine evidence possibly proving yeti existence. The scientists suspect there is a population of several dozen living in the area. The team hopes to spot a yeti or still living neanderthal man during their search of the area's mountains." I hope they find two pristine horns faster than I did.
Did anyone else think that it was going to involve a bunch of Russians sitting around in camouflage with vodka and firearms?
Looking for an elusive animal in domestic territory is hard enough; now they want to look for it in a foreign territory? They really should find Sasquatch first, then look for the Yeti. Who knows? Maybe Sasquatch will tell us how to find Yeti.
>two pristine horns
For anyone who missed the joke, this is a reference to a particularly obnoxious quest from World of Warcraft where the required items have a very low drop rate - meaning the player has to slaughter a preposterous number of yetis in order to complete it.
I see crazy knows no borders.
I hope they find two pristine horns faster than I did.
That might be one of the best editorial asides I've ever seen on slashdot. I was going to say it is tragic so few will understand why that aside was so great. But perhaps it's more tragic yet that so many will. ;-)
Instead of paying a group of scientists to run around out there, why don't they equip a drone with an infrared camera to do a swath of the area and locate and photograph anything with a heat signature about the size of a deer or larger? Sure, you'll get a lot of deer, but you're more likely to sight the yeti this way than not.
Glad I could help.
Yeah! Everyone knows there is no such thing as the lowland gorilla!
Oh wait, you mean the locals were right?
Get it?? Hyuk, hyuk, hyuk.
I know what you mean... this is simply abominable!
You'd think you'd see more evidence of mystery items like UFOs, ghosts and Yetis. Phones have been a real boon for photographing tornados and crimes.
Did you see the measuring tape in the picture in TFA? 10 inches does not make a foot! If the measuring tape is wrong....
At least the story was posted in Idle, probably because this story was surely expected to be mocked. I'm more disappointed that FoxNews puts stories like this on its science page while simultaneously claiming anything that resembles climate science is just a politically driven falsehood designed to destroy the economy.
And you are in dire need of a diarhetic. Dude... chill. It's just a story, it's not like I'm banging your woman.
Here's to hot beer, cold women, and Glaswegian kisses for all.
Many people think the search for cryptids is a waste of time, and not an area where any serious discoveries could be made, due to the large number of very unscientific crackpots.
The alarming number of such crackpots claiming to be cryptozoologists casts a very thick layer of tarnish on the more sincere and truly scientific in that speciality, but the assertion that nothing good can come from those few, due to the noise in the channel from the many, is not a sound assertion, and is a guilt by association rhetorical fallcy.
Other people will assert that any large macrofauna like "sasquatch", or "yeti" would surely have been discovered by now, but that is also an erroneous assertion. (Not that far removed from the false assertions made by several prominent politicians concerning the closure of patent offices during the 1900s, basing such rhetoric on the assertion that "everything worthy of a patent has already been invented." History clearly shows this is not the case.)
If these are *real* scientists looking for evidence of a cryptid, then I wish them well, and hope they find something. The methods they report in their field journals will surely be useful, even with a null result.
If however, this is just a bunch of poorly trained "enthusiasts" claiming to be crytpozoologists, but lacking any measure of proper scientific method, then this expidition is a colossal waste, and I hope they get frostbite of the penis for wasting resources and time.
Sorry.. I felt I needed to clarify that issue.
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How can the purple yeti be so red,
Or chestnuts, like a widgeon, calmly groan?
No sheep is quite as crooked as a bed,
Though chickens ever try to hide a bone.
I grieve that greasy turnips slowly march:
Indeed, inflated is the icy pig:
For as the alligator strikes the larch,
So sighs the grazing goldfish for a wig.
Oh, has the pilchard argued with a top?
Say never that the parsnip is too weird!
I tell thee that a wolf-man will not hop
And no man ever praised the convex beard.
Effulgent is the day when bishops turn:
So let not then the doctor wake the urn!
- Prof. Jonathan R. Partington's computer.
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BMO
On this episode of Destination Truth...
Data's painting is making me dizzy...
It seems doubtful that there is undiscovered fauna the size of a man, although not impossible. That being said, the impact of discovering a tribe of Neanderthals still alive would produce profound effects on society. Would they have 'Human' rights? Can they breed with humans? How would you feel about your sister dating one? What is the status of a human/neanderthal hybrid child? Depending on their intelligence level, it would be one step shy of meeting sentient aliens.
"When Homo sapiens started populating the world, it viciously exterminated its closest relative in the hominid family, Homo neanderthalensis..." If by viciously exterminated you mean viciously had sex with.
LOL @ the WoW reference.
They should send Putin. Putin could catch a yeti with his shirt off.
stuck in the past, I'd say?
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definition of 'scientist'.
Poop and hair. where is the poop and hair?
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Is this pseudoscientific tripe what this website has been reduced to? I'm speaking as a molecular biologist here; please bring some sort of journalistic integrity back to this site! This is fucking ridiculous.
Speaking as a molecular biologist? Wot.
If you were a zoologist - perhaps even a cryptozoologist - this might make sense. Yes it is very doubtful that some human (-like?) species is still alive - but then again, there was Homo floresiensis which may have been alive as little as 12,000 years ago. It's not impossible that some tiny population has hung on in the very large wild areas of Siberia.
I did a quick search on this "conference" and I can tell right away this is a typical pseudoscience gathering.
The organizer, Igor Burtsev, holds a degree in a different area (history) and everything he published about yeti so far was sensationalist drivel, not scientific research.
Oh, it is on Fox News website? Must be fair and balanced then. Sorry.
When they're done in Siberia, those scientist should go for a dip in Loch Ness.
... and they will have a chance to witness Vladimir Putin slay the beast with his own bare hands wearing nothing but military trousers.
Welcome to idle. You must be new here AC.
The name of the WoW quest for the two pristine horns is "Are We There Yeti?" The original quest was meant to be a grind fest and was. Then you had to be world traveler to frighten all the targets with the mechanical yeti. But with the revision of the quests in the low game in the Cataclysm patch, heck I just stealthed into the depts of the yeti cave with my Druid and quickly had the two horns. I think the only person I had to frighten with the mechanical yeti was right there in WinterSpring. This made me feel pretty stud, so I set out to find the hunter quests and the Boss Dragon, FinkWing or whatever his name is, appeared and blasted me with fire and killed me! I got an achievement for this honor. As for the russians, good luck to them. Maybe they find no yeti but find a lochness monster or a Gobi Death Worm. Or clever Russian peasants are stimulating the tourist trade.
They still find tribes in the deep forests of the amazon. Guess it's not a rediculous assumption after all.
Pseudoscientific tripe is what you use when you're trying to find the perfect recipe for menudo.
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The lead scientist has already found Yeti. They live on Carter Farm in Tennessee. See his published article:
http://alamas.ru/eng/publicat/Burtsev2.htm
Monsters in the Monestary. The yeti cry was scary.
Are they the ones that discovered Blowfish?
...it conflicts with Snipe season.
Wouldn't evidence of Neanderthals completely invalidate the claims of Creationism?
"Piter, too, is dead."
...In other news, scientists have devised perpetual motion, faster-than-light travel, and figured out how to avoid death and taxes!
These crytozoologists are a joke. If the animal is not mentioned in the bible it does not exist. END OF STORY!!
Is Geraldo Rivera going to be reporting to us all LIVE for this adventure?
Ah, you cook boy bands too?!! How special for you!
I'm speaking as a molecular biologist here
So unless they're looking for something on the molecular level you can either shut the fuck up or giggle like the rest of us. Your credentials are irrelevant, you puffed up buffoon.
American's can stay in America itself. The chances of finding Yeti are same, whether you search or not.
Crap, ok, sorry to rant on you Slashdot, but could you stop using the word "then" when you mean "than"? It really really makes you look illiterate. Even if English is not your first language it is not a difficult rule. If I have a large quantity of "A" compared with "B", I have more A *than* B. If B follows temporally after A, we say the sequence of events is "A *then* B". Sorry Slashdot, I know we have a thing about Grammar Nazis, it's just that this drives me nuts sometimes...
She can see them from her front porch.
I hope they enjoy themselves, it's a fun place to be in, and that's from someone who spent 27 years in Kemerovo before moving to Houston, TX. Just make sure they gear up for like -40F, as that's what weather is like there in recent couple years. And no, we don't have bears running around and drinking 96% alcohol from a ice bottle while knocking people with balalaikas :)
It's not impossible that some tiny population has hung on in the very large wild areas of Siberia.
It's not impossible that some tiny proportion of supermodels are in fact alien spies sent to destroy humanity, who can only be uncovered by having sex with them and noticing the peculiar colour they turn when they orgasm.
Oddly, my research application to selflessly study this phenomenon has not yet been approved by any government..
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
"We find that we can only spot the Yeti after ingesting at least 2 litres of vodka, therefore somehow this creature must be attracted to the liquid."
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
Pull off a sick ski run and he'll show up to ruin your day. Then make sure you ski Faster.
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
I resemble that remark!
So I must be the nowhere man.
hahahaha, i seriously had to put out my cigarette, walk back inside, and facebook this article just because of the pristine yeti horn reference. 0.3% drop rate made me want to gouge my eyes out. i hate you, winterspring yeti patriarchs.
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