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I need to qualify my statement by saying that it was never directed at Nathan as I find him very refreshing and a model of behavior for younger folks many of whom I take exception with. He is clearly energetic, has well-thought-out and novel ideas (such as those with thermals), goes out on his own to do research, and is willing to participate. We need more people like him on BFF and, frankly, around the country. If I could duplicate him and sprinkle him here, there, and everywhere I would. My hat is off to him and I hope he continues to do his good work. I also sincerely hope he becomes a model for others his age. We all do better when the bar is raised.

I would like to be an Alaskan FARTer. My schedule is spotty, but for much of the thawed part of the year, I can respond quickly to a report within the railbelt and south central coast of Alaska, including fairly remote areas, and even spend a couple weeks in the field to test a report site. I would consider personally funding an air taxi or boat charter to extremely remote sites statewide. I would gladly build a top quality evidence kit at my own expense. I’m not well equipped or skilled photographically, but I sure am with regard to carcass collection. I would consider a report up to a week old as “fresh”. I would reserve the right to judge reports for worthiness before expending my money, time, and effort to follow up on them. I am willing to to discus this with other Alaskan Bigfoot website operators and Bigfoot researchers.

Talking strictly technology? Either we figure out how to spread out and live amongst the stars? Or we will share the same fate as the dinosaurs. Its simple and just a matter of time. It will not be easy. But neither was Magellan’s voyage or building the Pyramids or eeking out an existence in ice age Europe. Humans conquer obstacles thats what we do. And we have already put men on the moon. And have spent a year in Earth’s low orbit on a space station.

Strangely enough, I find more and more people who have a greater than passing interest in the subject. I think that some of the more popular podcasts have really attracted casual 'fans' of the subject into developing a deeper interest into the field.

... at the very latest assuming disease, pollution, or war don't wipe us out first. There are other advantages as well. Access to rare minerals not found on the earth's surface and too expensive to mine deep enough to reach may be available in the asteroid belt. Development and advancement of solar energy technologies to facilitate mining / resource extraction. Being able to manufacture without polluting the oceans and the air. Lot of things we can learn out there, a lot of things we can do out there without crapping in our nest here. Eventually, once we get the techniques down, we definitely need to move on to planets around other stars. If it is not worth saving our species in the future, it's not worth saving it today.

The advancements man have made in the last 200 years is amazing. What we have done in the last 50-60 years is is more amazing in scale. We are launching rockets and landing them back on earth, reusable. In 50 years. We have more technology in your phone than we sent men to the moon with 50 years ago.... To imply that is not forward progress is a very myopic view, imo opinion of course. No offense meant.

The woolly bear caterpillar I saw in central western Washington lately was half and half. The old mountaineers in the So. Apps. predicted winter on the basis of red/black coloration patterns on said catty. https://www.almanac.com/content/woolly-bear-caterpillars-and-weather-prediction I guess that means about normal for central western Washington on the basis of an n=1 It got down to 37 deg at sea level in places the other evening so they better get somewhere fast.

^^ This right here. Either we figure out how to leave this planet, or we are doomed to this planets fate. Saying we shouldn't go to Mars is ignorant. We need to learn to crawl before we walk. We are not going to Mars to live, we are going to Mars to learn how to traverse space and advance. Imagine if primitive man did not test their rafts/boats to go to the next nearest land mass because said land mass had nothing for them......

I think this is one of the better such photographic evidence of late. The problems with it were: 1) No follow up, unlike the PG film. After the PG film, numerous people checked the site out soon afterwards, including USFS personnel (Laverty). 2) No corroborating footprint evidence, again like the PG event. And there are big patches of snow in the video. What were the chances of finding footprints in that snow in the area? 3) No pics of a man if known height/size in that spot. What if that furry subject was 9’ tall, and it could be proven with a subsequent man in that spot walking in the same pathway? Yeah, the skeptic industry would attack it as if their lives depended on it, but it might attract interest, and maybe even the interest of the right people..........

Catmandoo....I think you meant to say hydrogen is the small/smaller atom. Yes, that embargo was behind their decision. But it would be like me deciding to fuel up my Hyundai with nitro because the station had no 87 octane for sale. Still a nuts-o decision. What most people don't realize is there were, like, a dozen zeppelin crash/burns before the Hindenberg immolated over Lakehurst. It was not as if that should have been a surprise to anyone. We as a society get fixated on some technological goal, and all of our reason goes out the window. Pathological Technology is the term coined to describe it. Our Mars Mission fixation is one of the latest.

It was good enough to get Dorothy home.

My mistake if I misread the point of your comment Natfoot. My apologies. The techno-narcissism that underlays a lot of the popular scientific dogma does easily get stuck in my craw, I'll be the first to admit. Or, as John Prine so adroitly summed it up: We are living in the future Tell you how I know I read it in the paper fifteen years ago If you wanted a history that proves how nuts mankind is, just look at the tragic story of lighter than air rigid dirigible technology. Yes, to some, at one time, filling a gas bag with the most flammable and leak-able gas we know of, and suspending people under it to fly around seemed like a perfectly good idea. That pretty much sums up the manned mission to Mars program, except that when a zeppelin crossed the Atlantic, there was air to breathe and water to drink on the other side.

I find it interesting that the laughable part of BF has only been a recent construct in American society. After, as Huntster put it, people began to bow to Big Science seemingly thinking that Big Science is the end all be all of all things reality. While I do agree with Nate's sentiment that it is more plausible that Mars exploration will be more popular and garner more funding/attention, but I don't find the notion of 'serious' Sasquatch inquiry to be laughable at all.

You can ridicule Nate all you want but it is you who are being foolish WSA, Nate is being a realist. If you for one second thing there will ever be some big scientific push to look for Sasquatch you are sadly fooling yourself. I would agree we should be spending our energy on fixing things here on our planet Earth instead of trying to go to Mars but there's that old saying "there's the way things should be, and the way thing are".

Now THAT'S funny NatFoot. You entertain the possibility (nigh-on certainty?) of humans serially landing on a dead planet with zero life-sustaining resources (O.K., maybe some ice) to be a much safer bet? You and Elon might need to get a room and do this in private, hmm?. I'm not going to be able to get the coffee stains off the front of my shirt. Thanks a lot! But seriously, the idea that we now know all we need to know about life on earth...which is the subtext of your comment...and launch ourselves to a dead rock to escape the ecological havoc we've wrought here? At least we have the lack of possibility we can do the same to Mars I guess, so there is some rough justice built-in. Though, if we take that same incurious non-scientific bent with us, we WILL be guaranteed to be just as clueless there.

I am going with no for a few reasons: 1. Thousands of other people have seen them and only one of them has to be right. 2. The sounds they make cannot be attributed to any other known animal. 3. I have never seen a ghost, but I know they exists because I have a recording of one telling my family to leave an alley on night at a location in which I know there was no other people. So for me, seeing is not everything. 4. Not sure if this counts, but PGF film is convincing enough for me. 5. There is a recorded history of them going back to the first men. Not a lawyer, but am sure I would win the case that they exists within a reasonable doubt in a court of law every day and twice on Sunday.