Matt Crowley shoots down Bigfoot dermal ridges?

[fsol]

Stalking unicorns at PNW. They feed on unicorns.

Not this unicorn I hope.

 

[UrsulaV]

Australia, actually. Rather a different sort of locomotion, don't you think?

Just pointing out that sweeping statements about the non-existence of bipedal marsupials are likely to bite one in the posterior. Kangaroos are undeniably bipeds, undeniably marsupials, and quite unlike Bigfoot, undeniably real.

Carry on.

 

[tube]

Some of you may not be aware of my website on this issue:
http://www.orgoneresearch.com/photo.htm

As new information comes in, I try to keep it updated. I ran a test in silica last night that continues to support the claim that the Onion Mountain cast (CA-19) exhibits "desiccation ridges" and not Bigfoot's dermal ridges:

http://www.orgoneresearch.com/testing_silica.htm

I'm happy to report that as of today if one googles the term "dermal ridges" in quotation marks this website is the number three "hit". If one googles the term "dermal ridges" without quotation marks, then the site still comes in at number four.

Recently, an article appeared in the Skeptical Briefs newsletter about these findings, and is now online;

http://www.csicop.org/sb/2006-09/bigfoot.html

 

[erikbeckjord]

Matt Crowley shoots down nothing.

I have personally seen in a pile of wet,hot ashes, on an Indian Res, a very long, weird BF track (solo track) wijth all the marks you would see on your own hand.(palm)

Matt's "dermals" only exist at the edge of some casts.

el monstro

 

[LTC8K6]

Too bad we have nothing but your unreliable word, Jonny Monstro.

 

[tube]

From time to time I update my website. This may be of interest to others outside of Bigfoot skepticism:

http://orgoneresearch.com/an_experimentally_produced_desic.htm

 

[AtomicMysteryMonster]

Very interesting! I can't but think of the dermal-looking features shown in the picture used in this post from another thread.

I wonder if those arch-like features are due to a certain chemical in the liquid detergent rather than being due to all parts of the detergent. For all I know, it could be something that's present in certian types of soil, certain types of plaster, or something added to the plaster by the caster to make it set faster (try saying that ten times fast). One such example can be seen here:

Dr. Krantz: "Just poured... ahmm mixed the plaster and poured it in. Everybody seems to think you can't make plaster casts in snow but you sure can. Ahmm we made that one and it turned out fine. I made plaster casts of my first Irish Wolfhound's footprints in snow, and everyone said you can't do it and so I tried it; worked perfectly. When the plaster is starting to set, it warms up considerably but it is already set to a degree where it is not going to move."

Rick: "Well, I think that is one of the things they say is a problem (talking about the generated heat). But I think the main problem is water in the plaster freezing, and not curing the plaster itself. And so what happens, I have seen it, the print has a bunch of dry spots afterwards, it just gets riddled. But if you mix a 5% solution of Potassium sulfate with the plaster, it lowers the freezing temperature of the water in the plaster and allows it to set up. But that is in really cold environments."