Dude, I so totally share that interest.

Loch Ness has always fascinated me. One of my prize possessions is a rock I personally picked up from under the water of the loch on its shore. I didn't see anything that day sadly, but just being there was an experience in and of itself. (And the commercial exploitation of Nessie, may I add, was completely depressing. Fuck tourists, even if I was one.) I don't quite understand how a dinosaur (because I kind of think that's what she is) could survive for so long. Maybe there's a population, and they breed? Only logical explanation, to me. The monster each person sees doesn't have to be the SAME one, after all.

I think a Bigfoot type is completely logical too. We never have found the final missing link between man and ape, and I see no reason why one couldn't be running around. How he stays hidden baffles me, but then we discover new species every day, so *shrug*. The only thing I question is what he's doing in fricking Oregon and Canada. Africa would be the place I would assume you'd find something like that. Still, never fucking question Native American legends. They know their shit. (As do the Buddhist monks and sherpas who talk about Abominable Snowmen in the Himalayas).

anorexorcist wrote:

I would guess that since a lot of Bigfoot sightings occur in Norther regions or mountainous cold regions that they could be deep in forrests near mountains in the Northwest Territories, Alaska and the Yukon, maybe Nunavit as well, possibly in the arctic circle where we have yet to explore. I mean, if the duck billed platypus is real, then any of this shit could be. The only thing about Nessie is that a lot of it stems from that one photograph, all of the sightings seem to have come after that and the photo has been proven a hoax, so who knows about that one now.

Yeah, I guess that's true. I guess I just have a lot of Nessie because she's the original, true or not That other lake that was mentioned though...that sounds pretty interesting.

Duckbills are weird, aren't they lol? Not to mention those frigging tube worms and other animals that live on the way bottom of the ocean, on the deep sea vents? Un-freaking real. After I learned about that, I realized that I could never, ever dismiss anything out of hand again.

Ah, that reminds me--can you post the link? I haven't read that story in forever, and my Lovecraft is currently on loan to an asshat who thinks "yeah check this book out" means, "here is a free gift from me to you."

Ah, nuts. No worries then--I can search google myself. I just thought if you had it immediately handy it would be nice.

*sigh* jerks and their websites lol.

Tyop wrote:

SoldierHawk wrote: I think a Bigfoot type is completely logical too. We never have found the final missing link between man and ape, and I see no reason why one couldn't be running around. First of all there is no missing link between man and ape. We have plenty of fossils that document the evolution from ape to man. Second even if there was a Bigfoot running around somewhere – and since there's absolutely no evidence for it, there's no reason to believe this – he wouldn't represent a missing link between man and ape anyway. Similar to homo neanderthalensis he would be of a different species or subspecies that branched off from our line of the tree at some point in the past and went on another evolutionary path from there. He couldn't link us to our own ancestors. Also here's The Call of Cthulhu. Lovecraft is awesome.

Hey, thanks for the link! Been way too long since I've read that.

But when did they close the hominid gap? As far as I know (unless it happened while I was sleeping or something), there are still two major breaks in the fossil record. I remember back in 2004 some Swiss or Norwegian or Spanish (or something) team thought they had found something that fit the bill, but it ended up being a lot older than they thought. I mean, maybe I just haven't been paying enough attention, but...

Tyop wrote:

Yeah, those gaps are still there. I think the gap you're talking about was the one 14-4 mya. But there's no single final missing link that we need to find. There are just bigger and smaller gaps. Once you close one gap you create two new ones, so you always have "missing links". The reason scientists are more eager to find some transitional fossils is because they can learn more from those fossils than others, not because that fossil is necessarily needed to link two other fossils. But I think we're talking more semantics here, not actual disagreement. Besides Bigfoot certainly wouldn't fit into any of those gaps.

Even if it was disagreement it would be cool, but I think you're right on there.

Still. We won't *really* know Bigfoot's not the one til someone asks him, right? (I kid. I kid.)

Huh. That got me thinking, though. Since there's no way (or almost no way) that ALL of those weird mythological creatures could be real even if SOME of them are...I wonder why humans invent them? Some of it is pure misunderstanding no doubt (like when Europeans first encountered Komodo Dragons, etc). What psychological need does it fill? Why do we need to imagine these things? Its not like religion really, which ostensibly explains the workings of the world. This is *creating* more unknowns. Weird.