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There are the equivalent of stone age humans in remote areas. They're human, they have human intelligence - but they haven't done anything with it. If you took a brand new Jeep, gassed up, keys in it - they wouldn't know what to do with it - but even if eventually they figured out how to get it to run, they couldn't sustain it. They don't have the technology to make a compressor to inflate a tire, or plug a flat - charge a depleted battery even if they could figure out what the battery was and what it does. It would be of any use the moment the gas tank ran dry. They have no oil, refining capabilities - nothing. Intelligence, and what one does with it are not to be automatically equated. I recall in 1969, the same year we put a man on the moon, there was a NatGeo article of an expedition into a remote area - where cannibalism was still being practiced - and they were the equivalent of stone age humans. Same year! Two sets of humans. So different. So when folks say these things are not very bright - because they don't have the wheels, or maybe they don't use fire - well, there's some humans likely still on this planet with just about the same degree of advancement. And both groups are doing fine. What we consider necessities - aren't. Even if one has winter quarters in an impression, a cave, or a dugout - to reside closer to the summer herds - it's much easier to construct temporary structures to meet whatever structural needs one may find comforting. And it's easy to differentiate between a construction or nature. It's even relatively easy to differentiate between nature and "pointers," or "indicators," or trail markers, or warning constructs. Something that's clearly been manipulated - isn't nature.

No worries. Motivates me to drive back up there and look around with a different set of questions in mind. In the moment, I just kinda shrugged, thought "hmmm ... maybe ..." with the pretty clear understanding there was no point in chasing after whatever it was. I wouldn't have ever given it another thought if not for that weird heavy feeling that came along later. It's weird what you can get used to. If there's nothing to whack you up side the head, to break through and get your attention ... well, it makes me wonder how many people have bigfoot experiences and don't even know that's what happened. MIB

They did a pilot show last year. I'll watch this over Finding Bigfoot any day of the week. Absolutely no different from anyone on here or elsewhere out trying to kill one... But since this is a tv show it will be just like all the other Bigfoot wannabe tv shows, Crap. I prefer to stick with the good ol' boys.

What triggered my "encounter" was simply stopping my truck in plain view of one that was 150 yards away, downhill across a clearcut, by the side of a large creek. That action caused him/her to stand up from a crouch at the opposite creek bank, turning away from my truck, and hauling hairy butt up the other side of the creek across the clearcut on that side up to timberline and cover. I got the feeling that I had interrupted a pleasant afternoon's cool drink break, or maybe a productive crawfish feed. No "look backs", no pauses, just up the hillside and gone.

I'm not trying to argue here DWA but as impressive as that may be it's a far, far cry from creating the saw itself. Think about the manufacturing facilities and processes needed to do that. Even the imagination to envision a saw and then think about how to go about making it? Imitation shows an intelligence capacity; and actually using the tool shows smarts. But getting from bare hands to fabricating a tool as simple to us as a saw? Well, let's just say it's just so beyond an Orangutan's scope of mind. It is also why as much "Humaness" as folks would like to bestow on a Sasquatch it is a mistake to think they are even close to our kind of brainpower. Close in DNA? sure.....but not nearly close enough- by a long shot.

Mendoza, thank you for your analysis. I'm having a hard time understanding what your findings mean. Can you please explain them in layman terms so a dummy like me can follow along? Thanks again.

I'm not at all dismissing the issues, merely stating that I think they are far from insurmountable. The point of my post wasn't whether we should or should not shoot as only the individual can weigh that up and decide - it was in answer to the listed problems, none of which were about whether you should shoot or not. The issues above were all postulated after the shooting I believe. As far as potentially shooting a neanderthal, if we are assuming the creature is real then from the best descriptive, photographic and video evidence we currently have the creature would be one that resembled the PGF most probably which is clearly a great ape like a gorilla or a billy ape or a bonobo. We have, as far as I know, no photographic or video evidence of neanderthals living currently, we do have some evidence (though not enough or of high enough quality to convince) of a large bipedal ape.

In the south, they have been using something similar for 20+ years around the edges of cotton fields to detect the presence of certain agricultural insect pests with the coloration of the device allegedly being what draws the bugs to the device. Wonder if this may be something along those lines?

If it is what I surmise it to be, there is a small circuit board inside with some small sensors attached to it. The fins are meant to let the air in for taking readings, but deflect rain so that the circuitry stays dry and doesn't malfuntion. The plastic fins should actually be, just plastic fins.