Attention amateur cryptozoologists and other Bigfoot nutsfans: This Friday, August 15th, at 12 noon at the Cabana Hotel-Palo Alto (A Crown Plaza Resort) 4290 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, California 94306, DNA results and photos of the remains of a dead Bigfoot creature found in northern Georgia will be revealed to the press. Proof positive of the existence of the legendary Sasquatch.
I suppose a critical examination of the evidence will be allowed.
Naa! Then they would make a pet of it, teach it to talk and make it wear clothes. Once the genetic errors begin to express, this will lead to a Tourette's-like failure to control profanity. Once this begin, we will have no choice but to push the beast off a cliff. Then, of course, someone goes to jail for making an obscene clone fall.
They're presenting photos of a dead Sasquatch, not an actual body that can be examined? Well, everybody knows that photos can't be faked and that they're every bit as useful as a necropsy.
Oh, and they're presenting "DNA results," not tissue samples that can be independently analyzed by disinterested experts? Because, as everyone knows, there's no way a dishonest person with just a teensy bit of knowledge of molecular biology could whip up some fake DNA results.
No, doesn't sound suspicious to me. Not one bit.
Cheers,
Michael
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You couldn't establish that it's a "Bigfoot," of course. Not with only a single sample.
However, if an analysis showed that the DNA came from a creature that was closely-related to humans and other apes, but that it didn't match any known species, that would be sufficient to establish that it was from a previously-unknown species.
The thing is, anyone with a little knowledge could easily whip up a fake "DNA analysis" indicating that the DNA in question came from a previously-unknown creature that was closely-related to humans and other apes. I'd demand actual tissue samples that could be independently analyzed before I'd take their claims with any degree of seriousness whatsoever.
Cheers,
Michael
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You couldn't establish that it's a "Bigfoot," of course. Not with only a single sample.
However, if an analysis showed that the DNA came from a creature that was closely-related to humans and other apes, but that it didn't match any known species, that would be sufficient to establish that it was from a previously-unknown species.
The thing is, anyone with a little knowledge could easily whip up a fake "DNA analysis" indicating that the DNA in question came from a previously-unknown creature that was closely-related to humans and other apes. I'd demand actual tissue samples that could be independently analyzed before I'd take their claims with any degree of seriousness whatsoever.
Cheers,
Michael
If they faked the DNA analysis, couldn't they also fake a tissue sample?
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If they faked the DNA analysis, couldn't they also fake a tissue sample?
The point being was given a tissue sample an independent lab could then analyze and confirm or dismiss the DNA results. He was saying they could fake the results not necessarily meaning the DNA itself. I'm not sure how it would be possible to "fake" the DNA the independent lab would extract from the tissue sample, but then again it's been a few years since I've done any DNA work.
I've been wondering what happened to my old boss from Colorado. He had to duck going through doorways, was hairy as hell, and was nicknamed 'Chewy' after Chewbacca the Wookie in Star Wars. He once fought a bear in a bar and won. He once managed to wade into a Christmas Eve bar brawl and separate the townies and the oilfield trash, for the latter he was the designated driver. I wonder if he retired to Georgia or something. I can picture it now, he goes out bowhunting in the woods, some redneck shoots him, thinking he's found Bigfoot, and now this. Dave, if you're out there, give me a shout, I'm worried about you.
Once the genetic errors begin to express, this will lead to a Tourette's-like failure to control profanity. Once this begin, we will have no choice but to push the beast off a cliff.
Or we could shave it and make Lee Majors fall in love with it.
Tsk. Julian May covered all this. Sasquatches (and their isolated but similar relatives like yetis) can't be captured because they're metapsychically active, and strong in farsensing and creativity.
It's always tragic when a young Sasquatch becomes metaphysically active too early in life.
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