Odds are the closest footage he gets is a couple of hairy rednecks getting frisky in the woods
Scientist plans to catch Bigfoot with remote-control blimp
An Idaho scientist is planning on trying a new tack to hunt down the elusive Bigfoot, which is thought by some to inhabit the wild forests of America, by using a blimp. Jeffrey Meldrum, an anatomy and anthropology professor at Idaho State University, is looking to raise $300,000 to build a remote-controlled airship armed with …
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Monday 5th November 2012 22:54 GMT Anonymous Coward
GPS Trekkers, ready yourself!
I foresee a game where people track and share the blimp's location and play trick or treat on it, all properly costumed for the occasion. They might even catch two sasquatch fornicating that way! Of course, those two redneck will just 12 gauge shoot down the evidence gatherer up there...
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Tuesday 6th November 2012 09:18 GMT Ole Juul
Re: Bigfoot graveyard
Where are all the dead Bigfoot remains ...
And where is the scat? These sorts of things don't disappear over night, and in fact leave a trail of successive generations of organisms that lead back to the source. The lack of these fundamental signs is why scientists don't normally pursue these kinds of stories.
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Tuesday 6th November 2012 18:31 GMT Grikath
Scientific legimitacy for the blimp...
could well be found in the fact that if the equipment on the blimp is so shit-hot it's able to penetrate dense canopies and other known problems of aerial spotting of wildlife in anything resembling hi-res, it can just as easily be used to track, spot and monitor the equally elusive, rare, but quite real known wildlife in that region.
A blimp makes a lot less noise than an aeroplane or chopper, can stay up a lot longer, and is a lot easier to set up for remote, or even automated control.
I don't know about Big Hairy mythical creatures, but there's a lot to be said for a form of monitoring like this.
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Wednesday 7th November 2012 01:44 GMT Martin Budden
Already proven to exist!
The article says "Many human cultures have folk tales of wild, man-like creatures living in the wilderness. Possibly the most famous is the Himalayan Yeti.....etc"
Here's the big news: the most famous is not the Yeti, the most famous is in fact the orangutan, the name of which means "person of the forest". The orangutan has already been discovered and observed by science, and some have even been captured and put in zoos.
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Wednesday 7th November 2012 19:26 GMT mickey mouse the fith
Re: Already proven to exist!
And that yeti scull those Tibetan monks were insisting was genuine was found to be a few bits of various indigenous animals stuck together when someone snuck a bit of dna from it when the monks wernt looking, and tested it in a lab.
The chances of a population of large terrestrial hominids existing in the backwoods undetected is pretty much zero. Theres no way they wouldn't have left signs(shit,carcasses, nests etc) and disturbed the environment in some noticable way.
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Tuesday 13th November 2012 14:36 GMT Anonymous Coward
absence of proof ..
I say go for it.
Anybody who "knows they (bf) don't exist" should read Popper's theory of scientific knowledge.
The theory that all the continuous thousands of observation reports, worldwide folk stories, etc etc are all misidentified or misreported non-events, is a theory that can be disproven by observing one of these things in the wild.
Saying they exist isn't a proper falsifiable theory, unless someone invents a way to visually inspect the entire biosphere simultaneously at 10cm resolution and identify every living thing ..
Apart from the Flores 'hobbit', there may well be other undiscovered hominids - http://www.orangpendek.org/