Has everyone already seen this?

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8 hours ago, Al Agnew said:

Well, let's look at that a little closer...

Dinosaurs lived for about 150 MILLION years.  THAT'S why we find dinosaur fossils.  I wonder, in all the dinosaur fossils that have been found, how many actual individual dinosaurs are represented.  I bet it's no more than a few thousand.  A few thousand individuals leaving fossil remains that we've found so far in 150 million years of living dinosaurs.

How long, theoretically, would a large, bipedal primate have been existing?  A few hundred thousand years?  And another thing...one reason we don't find dinosaur fossils littering the earth is that they were land animals, and it takes a VERY special set of circumstances to preserve a land animal's bones long enough to fossilize.  The remains have to be buried somehow before they decompose and disappear or are eaten by scavengers.  Seems that is usually when a big flood came along and buried the remains in mud.  Not a very usual thing to happen.  Then, the sediment that covered up those remains has to, itself, be covered up by more sediment, for a long, long time, until it turns to stone from heat and pressure.  THEN, there has to be enough erosion of all the overlying rock to expose that layer, with its fossils.  So when you get down to it, the chances of finding dinosaur fossils is almost vanishingly small, and it's only because they were around for that almost unimaginable stretch of time that enough of them got fossilized to make it possible to find some.

Now...another question...how often does somebody wander through the woods and find the bones of, say, a bobcat?  Really common predatory animal, but have you ever found a bobcat skull?  I haven't.  Or how many people out in the West where mountain lions are common stumble across a dead mountain lion?  Although there are plenty of mountain lions, they are apex predators and far less numerous than their prey.  Sasquatch would presumably far less numerous than mountain lions.  And while I don't believe for a second that there are sasquatch roaming the Current River country, there is a lot of VERY remote, wild, rough country out in the Pacific Northwest, country that sees few if any people in a year. 

I'm not saying I believe sasquatch exist.  But I am saying that it isn't quite as far-fetched as most people seem to think.  Intelligent, shy creature living in remote country in small numbers...

Plenty of skeletons of animals are found all the time.  Deer for example.  My in-laws had dozens of skulls and bones they found on their farm over the years.  Decades actually.  Most were found when plowing 100’s of acres of fields each year.  

How about the scat question?   that’s a lot of poop to just vanish   

I just don’t believe a 10-12’ animal can escape detection in this age of cameras and the sheer number of people out in the woods.  

[Al Agnew]

16 hours ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

Plenty of skeletons of animals are found all the time.  Deer for example.  My in-laws had dozens of skulls and bones they found on their farm over the years.  Decades actually.  Most were found when plowing 100’s of acres of fields each year.  

How about the scat question?   that’s a lot of poop to just vanish   

I just don’t believe a 10-12’ animal can escape detection in this age of cameras and the sheer number of people out in the woods.  

How abundant are deer?  Compared to an apex predator, extremely abundant.  Put that apex predator, or an intelligent omnivore, in remote country, and it's a whole different story than an abundant critter in an area where human activity is almost constant.  Again, I don't for a minute believe there are sasquatch roaming Missouri.  But I'm not absolutely 100% certain that they do not exist in remote parts of the Pacific Northwest.  99% certain, probably.

As for scat...who knows what sasquatch scat would look like?  Chances are that it would look something like bear scat.  In that case, you see a pile of scat, are you more likely to think it's from a bear, or would you do all the collecting and investigating that would prove it WASN'T bear scat?

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23 hours ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

Plenty of skeletons of animals are found all the time.  Deer for example.  My in-laws had dozens of skulls and bones they found on their farm over the years.  Decades actually.  Most were found when plowing 100’s of acres of fields each year.  

How about the scat question?   that’s a lot of poop to just vanish   

I just don’t believe a 10-12’ animal can escape detection in this age of cameras and the sheer number of people out in the woods.  

I just think by now we would have some solid evidence if they were around.  

[ColdWaterFshr]

9 hours ago, Al Agnew said:

But I'm not absolutely 100% certain that they do not exist in remote parts of the Pacific Northwest.  99% certain, probably.
 

Oh my!   Lots to unpack here.  And help me understand "99% certain, probably"  🤪

 

[Gavin]

Its a well know fact that the probability for the existence of a Sasquatch type creature is slightly higher than the probability of the existence of a supernatural man in the sky who solves problems for you. There are 24 paragraphs and a three color chart printed up all nice on shiny paper in an old set of the Encyclopedia Britannica that I found at Cliff Claven's garage sale. If I could only remember where I put that, I'd take a picture.

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1 minute ago, Gavin said:

Its a well know fact that the probability for the existence of a Sasquatch type creature is slightly higher than the probability of the existence of a supernatural man in the sky who solves problems for you. There are 24 paragraphs and a three color chart printed up all nice on shiny paper in and old set of the Encyclopedia Britannica that I found at Cliff Claven's garage sale. If I could only remember where I put that, I'd take a picture.

This is a fishing forum.  Pictures or it didn't happen!!!😂

[Johnsfolly]

12 minutes ago, Gavin said:

There are 24 paragraphs and a three color chart printed up all nice on shiny paper in and old set of the Encyclopedia Britannica that I found at Cliff Claven's garage sale.

Can't help but think the following after reading this.

Officer Obie looked at the 27 8x10 color glossy photos with the circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one and then looked at the seeing eye-dog..... And he came to the realization that this was just another case of American Blind justice and the judge was not going to look at the 27 8x10 color glossy photos with the circle and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one ... 🤣

[2sheds]

... litterbug, and creatin' a nuisance, ...

[Phil Lilley]

1 hour ago, 2sheds said:

... litterbug, and creatin' a nuisance, ...

Hey Bob... glad you're still here.  Hope you did your floats this summer.

[Johnsfolly]

18 hours ago, 2sheds said:

... litterbug, and creatin' a nuisance, ...

And they all came back and we had a great time on the bench there filling out the forms and playing with the pencils...