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Well, if they are reading minds, perhaps they prefer to take the more interesting ones home with them.

OK everyone watch this video quick before someone finds it and takes it down. It is the full night video of the camp discovery. Note in the video that Travis points out a large empty whiskey bottle and Bob speculating that they did it to themselves. The barefoot prints were not measured as to size and Bob does not say he thinks they are from a bf. He just points out there are prints all over the place and it looks like people were rolling around on the ground. You will also notice the campers were burning very large logs. Maybe someone should have checked to see if anyone came into an emergency room in the area with burns. https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=torn+up+campsite%2c+bob+garrett&qpvt=torn+up+campsite%2c+bob+garrett&FORM=VDRE#view=detail&mid=469D658F889A5740B5EB469D658F889A5740B5EB

People seem to have a unhealthy fixation on this subject. I don't want to be in the woods mentally mindful of possibly being beheaded by a creature many claim that can read minds. I would rather have "Its a small world" playing in my head if that is the case.

The only thing innovative and different about this project is the airship. So until that is operational I don't expect anything from the project we have not seen already elsewhere. To saturate an area with ground searchers is being done all over the country with marginal results. That very well may drive an BF in the area away. Backing money does not make ground ops any more likely to succeed for Barnes than it does for anyone else. Personally I have thrown a lot of my own money into my research which has included aerial searching and quite frankly I think I am no more likely to have any kind of breakthrough encounter than some teenage guy hiking through the forest with his girlfriend and a cell phone. Many of the criticisms of the website are indicative of the entire project. Lack pertinent expertise, lack of aviation experience, lack of organization, etc is quite evident on the website and I suspect permeates the entire project. Oh sure they have Meldrum and other notables, but from talking to Meldrum personally about the project, it was evident to me, that he and the other notables in the project knew nothing about aviation and cameras. Those two things are the two main aspects of the project. If a technical project developer goes into a project with no knowledge of the technology and totally relies on vendors knowledge to define the technical objectives, you get what is best for the vendor and not best for the project. You should hear my NASA JPL engineer son talking about dealing with vendors for their projects. Vendors will lie, cheat on testing, and do anything they can to get paid for a project even when they know their product does not meet the project requirements. In this case I suspect the vendors are defining the specifications which is like the tail wagging the dog. But like the guy and girlfriend with the cell phone, Falcon might get lucky. Although most cell phone cameras probably have better resolution than the Falcon cameras.

Neanderthal mtDNA is identical to human in most of it. With only about 200 differences spread out across about 16,500 base pairs, you would think you were looking at human mtDNA if you looked in the wrong place. Denisovans have about 385 differences and chimps have about 2000 differences. You have to know where each differs from each other to properly formulate an effective ID test. There is the barcode method which is suitable for screen testing and assigning unknown sequences to known species. It might not be effective enough to distinguish certain subspecies however if they are identical in the target sequence and differ in another.

Give it time, it is still a work in progress, the plan and the methods are always subject to change, and I think William knows that he has to adapt to whatever works and abandon what doesn't. I have faith that the individuals involved will make it work and break some ground for how to conduct this type of long term research, naysayers or not. I also am excited about the possible DNA they might collect, having just read Sykes latest book I am convinced that we can document the creature fairly easily going down that path. The Fahrenbach hairs had some very intriguing results according to Sykes, the ones taken from Walla Walla, but mores samples are needed to document an unknown creature of this type. The Zana story also supports the credible notion that such creatures can exist and may even have human origins, but that remains to be proven.

WRT stopping power of the .45 Long Colt cartridge, there are some variables that must be taken into account. The .45 Colt was introduced in 1872 and in 1873 was adopted as the official U.S. Army handgun round together with the Colt Single Action Army revolver. This was a black powder cartridge designed for use in weapons with much milder steel than is available today. The ballistics from a hand gun were roughly 850 to 900 feet per second with a 230 to 250 grain lead bullet, comparable to the .45 ACP (Automatic Colt Pistol) round originally designed for the venerable Colt 1911 pistol. A good man stopper but, especially with the soft lead bullets used at the time, limited in penetration on larger animals. Even when smokeless powders became standard around the turn of the last century, factory loads continued to be loaded so as not to exceed the pressures generated by black powder loads, as they are to this day. There are two particular reasons for this. First, the cartridge cases for the round were much weaker than those designed for more modern handgun rounds, using what is known as a "balloon head" design. In this type of case, the case head is relatively thin with the primer pocket extending beyond the head into the case interior leading to the case head separating from the case body if too heavy a powder load is used, with dangerous results. Even though modern .45 cases are made with a thick case head equivalent to other modern cases, there are still many older Colt revolvers and reproductions in use that aren't designed for "magnum" pressure loads. Even currently manufactured versions still have thin cylinder walls that preclude the use of overly robust loads. It is quite possible to safely fire .45 Long Colt rounds loaded to .44 Magnum like ballistics, but only in revolvers such as the Ruger Blackhawk or Freedom Arms which are much more heavily built. The chambering of rifles for the .45 Long Colt cartridge is a fairly modern development driven by such things as Cowboy Action Shooting competition. While it was common for early lever rifles such as the 1873 Winchester to be chambered in pistol calibers so that a person could use the same round in long gun and sidearm, those were rounds such as the .44-40. Other than some kind of custom conversion (unlikely to be owned or carried by the miners) there would not have been a rifle chambered for the .45 LC at the time of the Ape Canyon incident.

None of those would be as painful as reading this thread.