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I have made it clear the sample is invalid. I do not know it to be from a Bigfoot but I keep it for good measure as there is that possibility as the collection method used was designed for that purpose. It will be tested with the next sample to be collected that I know is a winner.

Thus ignoring all the points already brought up by me and by the other posters. Still no explanation for your reluctance to do testing (for free), and your total unwillingness to explain how waiting for a second verified sample would mean anything in terms of your first sample. Also you are again not addressing the enormous difference that was already pointed out between the concepts of "invalid" and "valid but not Bigfoot."

Again, I favor the idea that not testing the sample makes sense only in the Schrodinger's Cat sense: untested, you might have a Bigfoot sample, thus allowing you to construct a big, exciting story around your possession of such a sample. Tested, it will ruin the story, or at best, make it a relatively simple, fact-based discovery of another unknown species.

When I was a kid, I found a rock that I believed might be a meteorite. It was very exciting to me, and therefore it probably served me better to never have it examined or tested by an expert. In retrospect, my odds are strongly that that it was only a pebble. Given meteorites have been shown to exist, I had a better chance of my "sample" being real than you do.
 
Thus ignoring all the points already brought up by me and by the other posters. Still no explanation for your reluctance to do testing (for free), and your total unwillingness to explain how waiting for a second verified sample would mean anything in terms of your first sample. Also you are again not addressing the enormous difference that was already pointed out between the concepts of "invalid" and "valid but not Bigfoot."

Again, I favor the idea that not testing the sample makes sense only in the Schrodinger's Cat sense: untested, you might have a Bigfoot sample, thus allowing you to construct a big, exciting story around your possession of such a sample. Tested, it will ruin the story, or at best, make it a relatively simple, fact-based discovery of another unknown species.

When I was a kid, I found a rock that I believed might be a meteorite. It was very exciting to me, and therefore it probably served me better to never have it examined or tested by an expert. In retrospect, my odds are strongly that that it was only a pebble. Given meteorites have been shown to exist, I had a better chance of my "sample" being real than you do.

I have explained all and I'll not do it again.
Chris B.
 
My sample, valid or not, is not on the table.


Perhaps you should reread my response to Shrike's post.
Chris B.
I know that your "sample" is not on the table (is it in your cabinet or drawer?). Believe me, I don't expect you to ever test this "sample" for any of a variety of reasons.

But which response do you mean? To me or to Shrike, and if Shrike, which one?
 
About halfway to that Bigfooty adventures location, it is.
Chris B.
So there's just the one specific hillside where the bigfoots hang out to do their primatey things? Don't you think their home range would be large enough to include the "halfway" point along the trail?

Also, how do you know that the ghost hunters don't go other places as well? You've already demonstrated profound ignorance regarding where birders go.
 
I do not go out at night because of safety concerns, nothing to do with deer season whatsoever. The area we went to during the day was the safest place to go to avoid the hunters. You are grouping 2 separate issues together.
Chris B.
I edited my post to make that correction a bit before you replied. Not so long before that you were guaranteed to see it, though.

See the edited version and try again. The refutation still applies.
 
Chris, are you also a ghost hunter? You mentioned back thread a bit that you know much more about them than you have said thus far.
 
Chris, why do you carry a big gun instead of bear repellent spray? It should work great against bears and (imaginary) Bigfoots. If you come upon a mother bear with cubs are you going to shoot her dead the moment she starts a bluff charge at you?
 
Chris, why do you carry a big gun instead of bear repellent spray? It should work great against bears and (imaginary) Bigfoots. If you come upon a mother bear with cubs are you going to shoot her dead the moment she starts a bluff charge at you?

He carries a gun for the imaginary 1 or 2 cougars.

Presumably, the imaginary cougars hunt the imaginary bigfoot children.

The bigfoot predilection to stand still for long periods in secluded spots makes him particularly vulnerable to cats sneaking up on his six and getting the neck bite in first.
 
He carries a gun for the imaginary 1 or 2 cougars.

Presumably, the imaginary cougars hunt the imaginary bigfoot children.

The bigfoot predilection to stand still for long periods in secluded spots makes him particularly vulnerable to cats sneaking up on his six and getting the neck bite in first.

I thought it was the reverse: that the Bigfeet killed and ate the big cats. That's why there are no more big cats in the region. And then the Bigfoot population crashed, of course, with no prey to eat.
 
Yeah, and a gun isn't much help when your first indication that a panther is around is when you feel its big teeth destroying your neck. You might grab for your gun but the damn cat is on you like Velcro and you can't move your arms anymore.
 
"You cannot take good video at night, sure you could take some sort of night vision or thermal crap but at best it's gonna be inconclusive."

Counter-argument: Yes, you can get good images at night. Please see the following:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWGj1XySRXc

It's amazing. We can find all sorts of videos of different animals, of all sizes, taken with thermal imagers and we can clearly recognize all of the animals in the videos.

But never bigfoot.

Hunters successfully hunt even small animals at long ranges at night with thermal imagers.

Somehow the 9 foot tall, 6 foot wide biped just can't be seen clearly on a thermal imager.
 
So there's just the one specific hillside where the bigfoots hang out to do their primatey things? Don't you think their home range would be large enough to include the "halfway" point along the trail?

Also, how do you know that the ghost hunters don't go other places as well? You've already demonstrated profound ignorance regarding where birders go.

My you're insulting with a vengeance lately. Please brief me on how you know exactly where the birders go here? If you have a link to species sited tied in with exact location I'd love to see it. I am not a birder myself so I'm not well versed on their sites/info. Chris B.
 
All those words simply to avoid the point. You claimed to take Cervelo out before dark due to deer season safety concerns. This was public land. I showed that such concerns are minimal at best given.

Keep playing, though.

ETA: You did not take him out before dark for that reason; you claimed most of your Bigfoot sighting areas were out of play for that reason. The same refutation appliesm

To the edit: Yes, opening day of deer season limited our areas to that one only. I think perhaps you are under a false impression of the deer hunting here. If you are relying on the info from the Edmonson county area and the Nolin area public hunting areas as being the only places guys hunt, that is misleading. Deer hunters also hunt private land and I'm not kidding when I say they're everywhere on opening day especially. If I remember correctly cervelo reported here he had met some guys at their deer hunting camp during his camp out.
Chris B.
 
Yeah, and a gun isn't much help when your first indication that a panther is around is when you feel its big teeth destroying your neck. You might grab for your gun but the damn cat is on you like Velcro and you can't move your arms anymore.
I suppose that's why it's a real good idea to stop and look around if you hear a stick break. Chris B.
 
My you're insulting with a vengeance lately. Please brief me on how you know exactly where the birders go here? If you have a link to species sited tied in with exact location I'd love to see it. I am not a birder myself so I'm not well versed on their sites/info. Chris B.

My reference to your ignorance was descriptive, and I already shared my source with you. Here it is again: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/.

This is just a repository of what a relatively small percentage of birders use - completely voluntarily - to share their sightings with the world. There are multiple other programs that get birders in the field that likely overlap your public use area:
Christmas Bird Counts (annually since 1900)
Breeding Bird Survey (annually since 1966)
Kentucky Breeding Bird Atlas (1985–1991 - repeated scouring of "blocks" to maximize the number of breeding species confirmed during 5–6 years of sampling).

None of these include surveys for birds run by the public agency for their specific purposes. They do annual monitoring for breeding birds at points well-dispersed, and I'm pretty sure they're using one of my protocols. (I wrote a review for that agency's bird monitoring program several years ago.)

All of that ^ represents a minority proportion of the time and effort spent by people in your study area, just for birds. Now add in the rocks, soils, trees, fish, amphibians, mollusks, etc. to get an even better idea of how well studied the area is.
 
Chris, why do you carry a big gun instead of bear repellent spray? It should work great against bears and (imaginary) Bigfoots. If you come upon a mother bear with cubs are you going to shoot her dead the moment she starts a bluff charge at you?

Personal choice I suppose. Alot of footers carry bear spray I can respect that.
Mama bear would be shot dead if that was the situation and I'd sleep like a baby that night. Chris B.
 
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