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Sci-Fi investigates..what a joke.

 
By Poppy at October 19, 2006 - 12:50am | General

I watched this show on what should have and could have been great..looking for Bigfoot.Well I was truely dissappointed,to put it mildly.It seems their so called team is closed minded and already have their opinions on the subject they are studying.

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I caught a re-run of this a couple of nights ago.

By The Doctor on October 25, 2006 - 8:59am

I thought it was interesting how they took a good look at the evidence they had to work with, vis a vis the plaster castings of footprints. The analysis showed the presence of details that 99.995% of the hoaxers out there would probably not think to add, such as the presence of skin ridges and signs of long-healed scarring. Now, of course, anyone with the time, funds, and motivation would probably know to add those details.

This episode sparked a discussion with H- (a friend of mine who was hanging out that night, and knows quite a bit about primate behaviour) in that the methodologies the Bigfoot researchers used were flawed. The local researchers the Sci-Fi Channel's team hooked up with can apparently imitate some, if not all of the vocalisations reputed to be from Bigfoot in the field, but if they have any idea of how to use them and why, then it was probably edited out. Calls used to establish territory can result in either a challenge for that territory ("It is not yours, it is mine!") or no response as the other specimen leaves the territory for its own (the "Oops, my bad" response). If there is another call that could be associated with "Sorry for intruding" I do not know.

Another possibility are mating calls, which would not be responded to by another specimen of the same sex, only by a member of the opposite sex (which could get very interesting very, very fast).

Such are the results of editing footage to fit into a certain timeslot, one supposes.

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The Doctor [412/724/301/703]
Antarctica Starts Here.

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I started a thread in the

By Poppy on October 26, 2006 - 10:45pm

I started a thread in the crypto section..lets see what you think.Bigfoot and cryptids are a favorite subject with me.

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i agree to

By wolfie568 on October 22, 2006 - 8:17pm

i watched the first one voodoo stopped watching in the middle seems like they was making fun of it then the bigfoot one came on i thought cool near where i use to live and where my mom possibly saw one they are so close minded and a bunch of ( cuss word goes here:)) idiots i couldnt belive it my cuz told me he met them down there in ore this summer i live in washington he said there just as stupid and inggroance(sorry bad spelling) in person as on the show pretty sad thought it might be a good show i was wrong :( just putting my 2 cents in ;P

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Sci Fi Investigates

By EEKlectic on October 26, 2006 - 12:17pm

Did anyone watch the show about the Mothman??? That was FREAKIN cool! I kept thinking how alike the Chubacabra descriptions are to the Mothman descriptions. There must be a link there.

I really don't get the Men in Black thing. Any comments?

EEK

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Agree

By fratka on October 19, 2006 - 7:40am

Your surprised?

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