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August 23, 2012 9:00 Am
CELEBRATING 1,447 YEARS OF THE LOCH NESS MONSTER
An artist's depiction of a Plesiosaur, the same species Nessie reportedly belongs to. Photo: The Berlin AquariumYesterday, 1,447 years ago the Gaelic Irish missionary monk Saint Columba was poking around the Scottish highlands when he reportedly stumbled upon a creature no man had before seen: an ancient, long-surviving plesiosaurs, better known now as the Loch Ness monster. According to Adomnan, the ninth Abbot of Iona who later recorded Columba's adventures, the Saint came upon a group of locals digging a grave for a man recently killed by a monster said to inhabit the River Ness. All fired up, Columba took off for the river and promptly saved a swimmer from the monster by invoking the sign of the cross and declaring, "Thou shalt go no further, nor touch the man; go back with all speed." The beast halted as if it were "pulled back with ropes" and fled in terror. Columba saved the swimmer and won over a few converts from the grateful villagers.Thus, the legend of the Loch Ness monster was born. Of course, the fact that Adomnan also recounts adventures in which Columba calms storms, expels evil spirits and raises people from the dead made no impact on the legend's believability, nor did the fact that Medieval water monster stories were a favorite gimmick used to instil the fear of God in quaking believers. And somewhere through the passings on of local lore, Loch Ness, Scotland's second-largest loch, or lake, took over as the monster's home rather than the originally reported River Ness, which runs off the lake.After the Saint's close call, the monster was not "spotted" for another 1,368 years, when Mr. and Mrs. George Spicer reported seeing "a most extraordinary form of animal" cross the road in front of their car on July 22, 1933. According to their account, the creature was about 25 feet long and 4 feet high, with a long, spotted neck that resembled a thick elephant trunk.Their account sparked a frenzy of similar sightings, including hunting parties determined to catch the animal "dead or alive." As technology developed, so too did the various ways in which people tried to depict the monster, including by film, video or sonar. Later analysis revealed each one to be a creatively staged hoax.Just in time for Nessie's anniversary, however, a new photo - the "best yet" - emerged. ABC news reports:George Edwards takes his boat, "Nessie Hunter," out onto Loch Ness nearly every day, often with tourists who hope to see the creature for themselves. Early one morning in November of last year, Edwards was turning his ship back to shore after spending the morning searching for an old steam engine on the lake floor, when he saw something else.
"I saw something out of the corner of my eye, and immediately grabbed my camera," Edwards told ABC News. "I happened to get a good picture of one of them."Edwards said he watched the creature for about 10 minutes, but does not explain why he only snapped one photo during that window.Rival Loch Ness monster enthusiast Steve Felthman already called foul and debunked the photo to STV News:He says he is convinced Mr Edwards took the picture during the filming of a documentary on the monster which he participated in, and has sourced the film's fake fibreglass hump which he believes is the star of Mr Edwards' snap.
Mr Feltham said: "There's absolutely no doubt that this is the same thing. Look at the step slope on the front - it's got several ridges on it. The number of ridges is the same as on the model.Edwards countered, claiming to know nothing about any fake hump although admitting Feltham is "entitled to his opinion." Even at 1,447 years old, the legend of the Loch Ness monster just keeps on giving.More from Smithsonian.com:Yes, We're Actually Still Looking for the Yeti Crop Circles: The Art of the Hoax
August 17, 2012 11:00 Am
YES, WE'RE ACTUALLY STILL LOOKING FOR THE YETI
Bring me to your yeti leader, and I'll test its DNA. Image: tolomeaMany scientists make their careers out of searching for the seemingly unfindable. The Higgs Boson, dark matter, the secret, hidden pieces of our universe. Other scientists search for things that probably aren't real at all. Like yetis. Researchers are about to embark on a quest to determine once and for all whether or not Yetis exist.That's right, a Yeti hunt. It's got a fancier name - the Oxford-Lausanne Collateral Hominid Project - but it's a serious, scientific, Yeti hunt.The project focuses on DNA analysis. They're accepting submissions of samples from pretty much anyone who thinks they have evidence of a Yeti. People send the material in to them, where it's tested for DNA. That DNA can tell them a whole lot about whether the mythical beast exists.Now, there have in fact been DNA tests on supposed Yeti samples before. Every time they've come back as being human. But DNA techniques have gotten better, and the scientists are willing to give it one last go. Well, at least some of them. BBC Futures sums up the scientific atmosphere:It is likely that the project is the biggest and most comprehensive attempt yet to probe suspected "remains". "Nothing like this, on this level, has been done before," says Richard Freeman from the Centre for Fortean Zoology in the UK. But therein lies the rub. For people like Freeman who devote their lives to looking for these creatures, it is the biggest signal yet that after years out in the cold mainstream science is finally taking the seriously. But for some scientists, the whole venture is an embarrassing curiosity to be held at arm's length.One of the scientists involved in the project, Bryan Sykes, sees this as a catch all for those who claim science brushes them off. "It's one of the claims by cryptozoologists that science does not take them seriously. Well, this is their chance. We are calling for people to send us their evidence, and we will test it through DNA analysis," he told the BBC.This DNA evidence will certainly not be a nail in any sort of Yeti coffin. Even if they find no evidence whatsoever of the yeti, many will still believe. Last year, the Huffington Post reported that some scientists were "95 percent certain" that they had found evidence of the Yeti. Before that, bigfoot "researchers" asked people in California for money to test whether the creature left residue behind on a pickup truck.Even the director of the International Cryptozoology Museum is skeptical of many of these claims. He told The Huffington Post:"This does not seem to be any more than what you hear about from weekend excursions in North America that go out, discovering some hair of undetermined origin, calling it 'Bigfoot hair,' then locating some broken branches and piled trees, saying it was made by Bigfoot, and finding footprints that look like Sasquatch tracks. These are not 'proof' that would hold up, zoologically."But even for Sykes, the geneticist behind the project, this is all a bit far fetched. He's not ruling out the possibility of a new species - we discover new species all the time, many of them quite large. But he acknowledges that there will need to be some evidence. The BBC says, "he is also keen to point out that he is not - nor intends to become - a cryptozoologist. 'I don't not want to become completely eccentric,' he adds." More at Smithsonian.com:Did Bigfoot Really Exist? How Gigantopithecus Became Extinct
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January 9, 2012
DID BIGFOOT REALLY EXIST? HOW GIGANTOPITHECUS BECAME EXTINCT
A reconstruction of Gigantopithecus. Image courtesy of Flickr user Sam WiseBigfoot. Sasquatch. Yeti. The Abominable Snowman. Whatever you want to call it, such a giant, mythical ape is not real-at least, not anymore. But more than a million years ago, an ape as big as a polar bear lived in South Asia, until going extinct 300,000 years ago.
Scientists first learned of "Gigantopithecus" in 1935, when Ralph von Koenigswald, a German paleoanthropologist, walked into a pharmacy in Hong Kong and found an unusually large primate molar for sale. Since then, researchers have collected hundreds of "Gigantopithecus "teeth and several jaws in China, Vietnam and India. Based on these fossils, it appears "Gigantopithecus" was closely related to modern orangutans and "Sivapithecus", an ape that lived in Asia about 12 to 8 million years ago. With only dentition to go on, it's hard to piece together what this animal was like. But based on comparisons with gorillas and other modern apes, researchers estimate "Gigantopithecus" stood more than 10 feet tall and weighed 1,200 pounds (at most, gorillas only weigh 400 pounds). Given their size, they probably lived on the ground, walking on their fists like modern orangutans.
Fortunately, fossil teeth do have a lot to say about an animal's diet. And the teeth of "Gigantopithecus" also provide clues to why the ape disappeared.
The features of the dentition-large, flat molars, thick dental enamel, a deep, massive jaw-indicate "Gigantopithecus" probably ate tough, fibrous plants (similar to "Paranthropus"). More evidence came in 1990, when Russell Ciochon, a biological anthropologist at the University of Iowa, and colleagues (PDF) placed samples of the ape's teeth under a scanning electron microscope to look for opal phytoliths, microscopic silica structures that form in plant cells. Based on the types of phyoliths the researchers found stuck to the teeth, they concluded "Gigantopithecus" had a mixed diet of fruits and seeds from the fig family Moraceae and some kind of grasses, probably bamboo. The combination of tough and sugary foods helps explain why so many of the giant ape's teeth were riddled with cavities. And numerous pits on "Gigantopithecus"'s teeth-a sign of incomplete dental development caused by malnuntrition or food shortages-corroborate the bamboo diet. Ciochon's team noted bamboo species today periodically experience mass die-offs, which affect the health of pandas. The same thing could have happened to "Gigantopithecus".
A Gigantopithecus jaw. Image courtesy of WikicommonsFurther evidence of "Gigantopithecus"' food preferences and habitat was published last November. Zhao LingXia of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and colleagues analyzed carbon isotopes in a sample of "Gigantopithecus "teeth. Plants have different forms of carbon based on their type of photosynthesis; this carbon footprint is then recorded in the teeth of animals that eat plants. The team determined "Gigantopithecus-"and the animals living alongside it, such as deer, horses and bears-ate only C3 plants, evidence the ape lived in a forested environment. This work also supports the proposed bamboo diet, as bamboo is a C3 plant.
So what happened to this Pleistocene Yeti? Zhang's team suggested the rise of the Tibetan plateau 1.6 million to 800,000 years ago altered the climate of South Asia, ushering in a colder, drier period when forests shrank. Other factors could have exacerbated this crisis. "Gigantopithecus"'s neighbor, "Homo erectus", may have over-hunted and/or outcompeted their larger ape cousin. And at least one dental study indicates "Gigantopithecus" developed and matured very slowly-a sign they probably had low reproductive rates, which can elevate a species' risk of going extinct.
Some Bigfoot hunters say "Gigantopithecus" is alive and well, hiding out in the forests of the Pacific Northwest. Other Sasquatch enthusiasts, however, point out this is unlikely, as Bigfoot is reported to be a swift, agile, upright walker-not a lumbering, 1,200-pound quadruped.
[THE CONCEPT OF GIGANTO AS A 1200 POUND QUADRUPED IS ALSO STRICTLY IMAGINARY WITHOUT ANY REAL SUPPORTING EVIDENCE AT PRESENT-DD]
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Scientists Say We Want Examine Moon for Queer Traces
Arizona State University's instructor Paul Davies-a unreal physicist and cosmologist now active on astrobiology-and Robert Wagner-Research Technician at the School of Rest & Failure Exploration-have published a expert paper profession for the search of alien artifacts on the Moon..
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They row that, because the Examine for Space invader Intellect "has a low vision of riches", the agree power of sighting proof requires to "explain the current search" as extreme as possible. More readily of dead on looking for radio messages, we requirement search for traces of alien explorers in the outer space bodies of our solar system. These are the highlights of their research paper:
o Queer civilizations may contain sent probes to our immediate area of the galaxy.
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o Curious the LRO database would make an extreme moralizing project.
Their first notion is to use photographs from the Stellar Exploration Orbiter-340,000 images now, one million in the future-for computer-based and crowd-sourced report that may understand agree alien structures, from zombie to wreckage. The charge is very low, they say, and offer hand down be gains no matter what: either we attain cryptogram of aliens or those restart a lot about the Moon in the earnings. It's a win-win beckon.
Davies and Wagner acknowledge that, if there's no matter which, it hand down be efficiently conserved since there's very although activity on the lunar begin. They expert that, if aliens well were offer, they may contain moved out a "We were modish" shot on a place when the Tycho crater or maybe in one of the load lava caves that make somewhere your home our hoary satellite. Totally when space exploration experts acknowledge humans requirement use these caves to set up outposts, Davies and Wagner acknowledge that there's everyplace the alien explorers may contain installed their bases millions or thousands of living ago.
Source: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576511003249
Coman-Ra Said: "Clear, antigravity has been give or take for a fancy time. Townsend-Brown had a model flying saucer flitting give or take a may job in 1928. He used the Bifeld-Brown bang, which in-
volves the tricks of a charged condenser in a magnetic area.
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flying saucers in WW 2. A book on this has been published in
Germany and has obsolete nap three editions. It is, of course,
not about in the U.S." (9/27/'76 Report)
Piece of writing Appraisal Said: "Dr. Mason Rose of the Academic world for Social Campaign, published a paper recounting the discoveries
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electrical condensor stimulated towards its certain job as soon as sus- pended in a gravitational area. He assigned Cook to notice the
bang as a research project. A series of experiments showed
Cook that the most expert shape for a area propelled con-
densor was a orbit after that a central arena. In 1926 T. Cook publish- ed his paper recounting all the construction quality and flight
scenery of a flying saucer....
"On September 10, 1981, an full of news test was broad-
cast on Exchanges Colony KTAR, Phoenix, Arizona. It featured Confirm Spaulding, head of GSW (Put in at Saucer View). The odd inter-
keep under observation theorized that the Direction was passing through UFOs as a natural history of lay instruct system.' Confirm Spaulding alleged that the American
mutual and other portions of the world are being manipulated appearing in a saucer sensitivity system which is all one of a conspiracy to act- ually Promote UFOs more willingly than progress them out. The effort is so they can unite on the jam they are be in, such as farm animals mu-
tilations, Stealth aircraft troublesome which is hidden to radar,
and common sense control, among other jam....
"From other sources it is claimed that the CIA, created in
1947, took over the Citizen Image of the in the air dishes shaped
by secret flights of US aircraft and studied meteor research,
etc., into the 1947-48 seminar. By 1950 the CIA had set appearing in make signs a plan of joyful mutual sensitivity in interplanetary tra- vel nap a psychological process of guiding the release of
planted information, ordering secret tests of frank mil-
itary developments which gave not real impersonation to observers,
etc. It delegated the Air Engine capacity to act as certified party worker to stave off mutual examination. It covertly sponsored the formation of UFO notice groups and contact clubs. The CIA set up go to regularly UFO publishers, sponsored the pall usual by Adamski's books,
and others. All testifying the 'extra-terrestrial'origin of UFOs;
and consciously creating lack of clarity." (Eric Wynants, "The UFO Con- nection," Piece of writing, Box 11451, Santa Rosa, CA 95406)
DREAMSHORE Appraisal Said: "He (Adamski) was an ex-bootlegger and
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about the Moment Prospect in which Jesus lands in a spaceship. Because the story was rejected, he rewrote it after that 'Orthon' quite of
Jesus and submitted it as fact.... Joe and Jane Medium Standard
Amerikan took the Be revealed Brothers to their hearts and pocketbooks, never realizing that they'd rectangle entire battling that very im- age -- fair, weak, Nordic Superman -- in WWII." (Mela Quater-
nary, DREAMSHORE #29: "George Bush pilots a flying saucer," 618
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Updated 28.2.2014 In luxury to what we are used to seeing up in the skies - UFOs and model aircrafts included - the skies are crisscrossed by an growing dead body of all sorts of unmanned radio dish vehicles (UAV), cheaply renowned as drones. At selected letter give to forte be a snag then the legal reputation of such tactics, particularly if they result then a camera - similar who is officer to film what and where - or if the association gets too fertile and provoke of collisions too high. And ufologically the snag is of course that selected of these drones are deceiving for extraterrestrial crafts or drones.
At a halt drones - or quodcopters as the contract ones are sometimes called - movement most maybe be a now means of delivering food to the doorsteps of highly developed customers. Wouldn't you fancy your pizza delivered by Dominos DomiCopter and the like? To the point and crispy! Or the not long published book that you aptly can't stand to get your hands on?
But similar hypothetical, selected of these drones are not that non-hazardous. They may control cameras then at all victim in wits, selected of them mystery. The dead body of legalize drones for performance purposes movement most maybe rise, at token that is the disbanding you may possibly draw from the jargon after the Boston bombing 2013. But as Ryan Calo, a law educationalist at the Academy of Washington says: "I don't embrace the Boston bombing movement reframe the performance negotiations. Nation state movement progress in their sarcasm balanced after this do. If attitudes about drones power, it movement be over time, maybe such as of non-surveillance uses of drones that realm get friendly to, similar in nurturing, or by hobbyists. That's the way realm are leaving to get acclimated to drones, not from legalize use."UAVs movement accountable con an bigger persona in search and use in the Combined States and not in.
The military use of drones is of course thorough. Array Predators were first used in late 2001 from bases in Pakistan and Uzbekistan, generally held at assassinating high parade nation within Afghanistan. In 2012, the U.S. Air Impulsion authority in addition UAV pilots than ordinary jet fighter pilots for the first time. And whether the warranty draw would rise or descend then the use of drones, it movement reliably be likewise a just concern. Be it as it may, as far as UFOs are considerate, military drones most if truth be told stand for slightly a few of the thought UFO sightings - for a UFO researcher aptly changed fear to tell off.
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