How likely are Neanderthals for the bigfoot sightings?
If their habitat never disappeared, maybe they didn't either?
I think less than one hundred years to achieve inner space flight is a rather short period when you consider how long humanity has existed as we do.
The Neanderthals aren't likely at all, since they weren't 7-10 feet-tall, didn't have exceedingly long arms, used tools and generally were more human-like in their behaviour, which Bigfoot apparently isn't, since it doesn't use fire, tools, or anything remotely useful for a creature living in the wilderness, which makes it all the more silly when you actually think about it.
There's an argument that the Bigfoot of Russia and parts of Asia, which equally doesn't exist, is inspired by stories of such relic humans as Neanderthals, but the chances of Neanderthals inspiring stories of giants of the PNW are slim and none, and slim just buggered off.
You could say that less than a hundred years is too short a span for us to achieve anything we've achieved, and it seems true when you think of it without actually using your melon and properly understanding what we have achieved, and why we achieved it, rather than the span we've achieved it in.
To assume that we've done nothing as a race is to sully our achievements and simply muddy the waters of human achievement as a whole.
On the other hand, we've far more evidence of our own technological achievements than we have for a far less likely scenario where ancient humans suddenly developed the power to fly into space. I mean, do you even think about that stuff rationally, or is it just romantically?
