Underwater Sonar Robot Discovers A Real Loch Ness Monster (Prop) (discovery.com) 62
A Norwegian oil company is finally performing a sonar scan on the bottom of Loch Ness, creating a high-resolution map of the Scottish lake that's reputed to contain a mysterious lake monster. "Operation Groundtruth" will be using a marine robot named Munin, and they've already identified a 27-foot-long shipwreck and disproved rumors of a 27-foot-long "Nessie trench" where the cryptid creature could be hiding. The Scottish tourism agency has issued a press release about the robot's discovery of a life-sized model of the Loch Ness monster used in a 1970 film, which had sunk during the filming more than 45 years ago. "The agency's statement said 'Nessie found'," reports Discovery News, "with an asterisk at the bottom reading 'replica model'."
Ping (Score:2, Funny)
Quick! Call CNN! This could be the MH370!
Surely you mean MH17... (Score:1)
Cause MH17 and MH370 are actually the same plane. [humansarefree.com]
It's all a conspiracy by CIA and secret reptilian government to discredit Putin and thus prevent him from his crane-leading endeavors. [youtube.com]
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Cause MH17 and MH370 are actually the same plane. [humansarefree.com]
It's all a conspiracy by CIA and secret reptilian government to discredit Putin and thus prevent him from his crane-leading endeavors. [youtube.com]
My god .. the stupidity of that site is unbounded. And I could refute many of their "points" just by looking at the same evidence that they were presenting.
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My god .. the stupidity of that site is unbounded. And I could refute many of their "points" just by looking at the same evidence that they were presenting.
Never go here. [wellaware1.com] You might suffer an aneurism. And then they'll replace you with a double. [wikipedia.org]
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How is the weather in St. Petersburg today? As lousy as in Sweden?
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Why ask me? Ask wunderground.com. [www.wunderground.com]
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...It's all a conspiracy by CIA and secret reptilian government to discredit Putin...
Sir, implying that reptiles secretly control the government is an insult to reptiles everywhere!
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That's what they want you to think.
Nessie (Score:5, Insightful)
Apart from the obvious all-encompassing bollocks that is Nessie (including destroying quite a nice loch with crap tourism shite):
This kind of calls in question all the viability, and highlights the pointlessness, of all the previous "Nessie searches" that didn't even find a 45-foot prop that we knew roughly where it was.
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destroying quite a nice loch with crap tourism shite
Destroying? Not that there's any hyperbole there or anything.
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Go there in the summer, at the height of tourist season.
I'm not talking physical damage (it's a loch), I'm talking making a place you wouldn't want to be in longer than it takes to start the car and fight through the traffic to get out of there.
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I do know what you mean. Once, courtesy of a bike tyre that was shedding rubber all over the place, I had to cycle from Fort Augustus to the bike shop in Inverness in August. Absolute fucking nightmare. But, to be honest, I blame the fucking car-dwelling grockles, not the relatively small amount of Nessie-ism.
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The prop stays on the bottom of the ocean and doesn't move around. Unless you're specifically searching the bottom of the ocean, you wouldn't have any reason to find it when looking for living monsters.
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The prop stays on the bottom of the ocean and doesn't move around. Unless you're specifically searching the bottom of the ocean, you wouldn't have any reason to find it when looking for living monsters.
It's not an ocean.
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NO but it is as deep as a shallow one, with the max death around 750' and it sits only 50' above ocean level.
There are a few lakes in the world that are deep like that, what they suffer form is the tools needed to explore the depths are too big for the boats that can fit on those lakes.
this has only changed in recent years.
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The world has many, many large lakes. But few have claims of a monster, and none are so famous as Nessie. It's a local industry, like all the shops around Roswell selling plastic aliens.
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Re:Nessie (Score:5, Interesting)
They don't really come out on the side of Nessie existing at all in fact. I think that's an excellent attitude for such a museum to have, and I was impressed both times. The monster is treated as a bit of fun, and nothing else.
Cameras Everywhere (Score:2, Interesting)
The fact that almost everyone is walking around with a camera these days means that if Nessie is real there should be an increase in new pictures of her roughly equivalent to the increased proportion of camera-hours (the number of hours that people with cameras or mounted video cameras are watching) around Loch Ness. I don't keep up on cryptozoology news, but a quick search didn't indicate any headlines to that effect. So it's likely Nessie doesn't exist (or has died I suppose).
This same logic applies to
Re: Cameras Everywhere (Score:1)
Nessie was never sighted before the first photo of it. And later relatives of the photographer admitted that it was a hoax. So the only reason why we even consider the existence of nessie is a hoax.
Re: Cameras Everywhere (Score:1)
Nessie was never sighted before the first photo of it.
Asshole (I'm not necessarily addressing you per se but rather that orrice which you appear to be forming words with), if youd done the slightest bit of research on the topic you're mouthing - I mean assholing - off about, you'd know that there've been sightings reported for centuries, including two opposing armies that put down their weapons to behold the fucking spectacle...
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And you'd realise that the claims you put so much trust in are dubious to say the least. We get it - you really want Nessie to exist - just don't attack people for being rational because they shine a cold, hard light on your pet belief.
ObXKCD (Score:2)
https://xkcd.com/1235/ [xkcd.com]
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This same logic applies to Big Foot,
what gets me is these Bigfoot hunters have lots of drama in their videos but ***none*** of those guys have what I would say definite video (all those shows are high drama and like reality shows they are a total turnoff for me). I'd only be convinced if they have the discipline to spend months (years) out in wilderness to get wild animal shots. i.e. the Snow Leopard, Empire Penguin, and that camel like animal in middle Gobi desert where camera crew lugged all kinds of equipment in addition to food and water
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Since I've probably spent more hours swimming in Loch Ness than you (or indeed, almost anyone else in this thread), I happen to know that the water is pretty murky. As in, you'd be lucky to see your own feet if you were treading water. While it may be less murky deeper do
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If, indeed, they're camera-hours looking at the loch. most of the grockles are taking photos of each other, not of the loch itself. And people are generally not very good at observing things that they're not expecting (which is the big hole at the centre of the "many eyes" hypothesis of code rev
Replica? (Score:1)
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Ye cannae have a 'replica model' of something that (probably) does not exist.
Damnit, don't get all "facty" and everything!!
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Sorry. I was in a foul mood and wanted to get into an argument with the internet.
Well, in that case, YOU'RE WRONG!! (I hope that helped a little bit.)
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Hoping to get him to compare me to the Nazis next.
Yeah, I always count it as a personal win when some bozo compares me to the Nazis. I just make another entry in my "Godwin Log" and call it a day. lol
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You damn NAZI!
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You damn NAZI!
Woo hoo! Twice in one day, I'm on a roll!! (And I think I get extra points for the capital letters, too!)
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Awww, come on. Be a bit more subtle with setting up the Python skits. Even I could see that coming.
No you couldn't!
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[SELF] Nails feet to perch. Fish is not happy.
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Sure you can. Replica "Star Wars" everything. Replica "Star Trek" everything.
Reality is quite overrated.
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A "Model" (Score:2)
Rabbits freeze when they see motion. Why not a sea monster?
Chances are Nessie ate the model years ago and that it's now able to assume its form.
Inter-dimensional portal detector? (Score:2)
But do they have a device to detect the obvious inter-dimensional portal that Nessie swims through to avoid being found?
Coincidence? I think not! (Score:2)
...they've already identified a 27-foot-long shipwreck and disproved rumors of a 27-foot-long "Nessie trench" where the cryptid creature could be hiding...
Did they check underneath the 27-foot-long shipwreck to see if the 27-foot-long Nessie trench (and Nessie) was underneath? Ha! I didn't think so! It can't be a coincidence.
Nessie, Nessie, Nessie! (Score:1)
27 feet != ship wreck (Score:2)
It's a boat wreck ... and a small one at that.