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Joe Smith Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 29 August 2004 Location: United States Posts: 6605
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Posted: 23 August 2017 at 3:37am | IP Logged | 1
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I was contacted a couple of weeks ago by a guy on the Facebook Messenger App about providing a drawing for his Facebook Group. He said the members were still deliberating upon the Group's name, and that he'd get back to me with details. Sure, I said! Why not? Probly some Photoshopped Letter/Logo thing that'll be done before I can forget I did it, y'know? Later that week, he replied with the link to the group, and I was flabbergasted! BERKSHIRE BIGFOOT it read. Videos of these guys trudging around the woods looking for clues. Narration done BLAIR WITCH style. Spending their own hard earned money on equipment, plane tickets to remote locations, etc. I could not believe there were still people chasing this legend. Does the JBF have any believers?
PS: here are the 'versions' that fell out of my pencil for their group. You may notice some similarities (in 2 of the 3) to a member of my favorite superteam.... :)
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John Byrne
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Joined: 11 May 2005 Posts: 132330
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Posted: 23 August 2017 at 12:46pm | IP Logged | 2
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Bigfoot, like the Loch Ness Monster and other such mythical beasties, comes up against a couple of hurdles. Both have to do with the legends typically being hundreds of years old.Take ol' Sasquatch as a typical example. For the legends -- which date back at least to the 1700s -- to be true, we must be talking about a creature with a very long lifespan or a large breeding population. Neither seem likely. Often, the gorilla is cited as an example of such legends that turned out to be true. But the problem there is that once people (read: nosy Europeans) began actively searching they very quickly found the critter, and before that lots of physical evidence of its existence.
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Andrew Bitner Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 01 June 2004 Location: United States Posts: 7488
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Posted: 23 August 2017 at 1:25pm | IP Logged | 3
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It's a nice idea that there are strange creatures still undiscovered, but even the most remote and inaccessible places on Earth have been visited and explored. Hard to imagine anything much bigger than a guinea pig has not been found by now.
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Robbie Parry Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 17 June 2007 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 12186
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Posted: 23 August 2017 at 1:42pm | IP Logged | 4
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The "kid" in me likes the idea of coming across Bigfoot/Sasquatch, but the adult in me thinks such a creature is highly unlikely.
Maybe the Loch Ness Monster and Bigfoot are one and the same. There's an underwater cavern at the bottom of Loch Ness (which I believe is 700-900 feet deep). Perhaps the Loch Ness Monster enters that tunnel, travels across the Atlantic - and then morphs into Bigfoot.
Joking aside, I'd have thought that, especially in 2017, technology would have located such a creature.
Someone did equate the blue whales with Bigfoot once. He said we can't locate blue whales easily - despite their size - so why should we locate Bigfoot? Well, the oceans are a LOT bigger than the woodlands of North America!
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Bill Collins Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 26 May 2005 Location: England Posts: 11251
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Posted: 23 August 2017 at 1:44pm | IP Logged | 5
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Strange coincidence...Nessie sightings always seem to occur at the start of the tourist season!
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Robbie Parry Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 17 June 2007 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 12186
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Posted: 23 August 2017 at 1:52pm | IP Logged | 6
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I did have a book on Bigfoot once (Reader's Digest). There have been sightings all around the world: Australia, Africa, even Europe (Scotland had a sighting years ago).
Is the Yeti likely? I know the Himalayas would prove tough terrain for anyone looking to locate such a beast.
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Brian Floyd Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 07 July 2006 Location: United States Posts: 8364
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Posted: 23 August 2017 at 5:28pm | IP Logged | 7
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I believe Bigfoot chasers are all wasting their time. I find it hard to believe that Bigfoot wouldn't have been legitimately seen, if not captured or shot dead, by now.
Bigfoot, Loch Ness Monster, and other mythical creatures of their ilk simply do not exist.
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Doug Centers Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 17 February 2014 Location: United States Posts: 5482
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Posted: 23 August 2017 at 6:00pm | IP Logged | 8
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I used to enjoy watching TV shows about these creatures, fantasizing that they were out there just never caught. Then I turned 16.
Advocates of their existence will often site the coelacanth as proof that something can be thought extinct for millions of years and stay hidden from man. The truth was with the coelacanth that local villagers were catching maybe 1 per year and would actually have a festival around it. They just never thought to call the local news station and let them know :-)
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Wallace Sellars Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 01 May 2004 Location: United States Posts: 17671
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Posted: 23 August 2017 at 6:30pm | IP Logged | 9
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I used to enjoy watching TV shows about these creatures...
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I still do. Even knowing they don't exist, it can be fun seeing the "evidence" that is presented.
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Brian Floyd Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 23 August 2017 at 7:01pm | IP Logged | 10
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I was a fan of IN SEARCH OF...
The original with Leonard Nimoy, not the newer version. Didn't care for the newer version at all.
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Wallace Sellars Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 23 August 2017 at 7:10pm | IP Logged | 11
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Those interested in legends and mythological creatures may enjoy listening to the LORE podcast.
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Robbie Parry Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 17 June 2007 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 12186
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Posted: 23 August 2017 at 7:27pm | IP Logged | 12
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Also worth mentioning are big cat sightings here in the UK. Many cats that were located were actually not big cats.
I mean, look at this:
Yes, that's a one-of-a-kind story, but the point stands: people THINK they've seen or heard something - but the reality can be mundane.
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