Leaderboard

I just want to be commander of Trump’s new Space Force! But I want fembots...

You have pointed to NASA spending, government spending etc. You are right. They have had a march larger budget than BF based on producing results. They HAVE provided results. THEY are living in space (ISS) THEY have been to mars with probes. THEY have done flybys of other celestial bodies. THEY ARE advancing society despite your poor attitude towards advancement. Its not today, its not tomorrow. It may be in 100 years. The thing is, IT IS ahead of us. IT is our FUTURE. Shake your fist at the clouds, shake your fist at the people on your lawn. Go ahead, you will not stop what IS happening. NO MATTER how much you do not want or understand it.

I am not a science denier. I use science everyday. As a baby boomer, I have heard and read a lot of BS over the years, Pledges, promises, plans. Contrary to what some believe, we have not gone from "Cave to Cosmos". We have gone from 'Cave to Man Cave' ( Febreeze now more than ever ). There is no money in Sasquatch. Simple. The team approach does not work. Sasquatch hate us and avoid us. We zig, they zag. Progress is a grey area. Progress is suppressed in the US over profit. In 1903, the Ford Model A could top out at 45mph. 1908 and the Ford Model T could get 25 miles per gallon. The 2nd generation Model A in 1927 could get over 40 miles per gallon and do about 60mph. It had a 4 cyl., L-head engine and size of 200 in3. So where is the progress in something as common as our motor vehicles? No progress, only profits. Norseman, are you sure that is an image of Pluto? It is not an 'in camera' image. It is streaming ones and zeros through space and assembled on earth by signal processing. It is a pretty image, with adjusted texture and color for a pleasant presentation on a graphic user interface---GUI. Voyager 1 and voyager 2 have done well. JPL and NASA are great at sending probes on 'fly-by' missions. VGER ( Go VGER ) and Voyager 2 are not 'landers'. Landing on an inhospitable planet is costly and dangerous. Look at the ratio of crashes to landings on the Moon and Mars. NASA knows how to land on Mars now. Robotic equipment is the least costly and safest to fly through space and put on a rock. More on signal processing. The scans for water beneath the ice caps on Mars had some erratic readings. Pesky signal processing here on Earth. Similar to Greenland and Antarctica, there are lake(s) under the Martian polar ice caps. Probably salty. If you want to go to Mars, go to the ice caps. Lake Barsoom could be fun. Keep in mind that the temperature at the dirt-ice interface is warmer. Elon Musk said that the first group travelling to Mars should be prepared to die. Refund on the round trip ticket? The gravity is a lot lower than Earth's. Who do you send? Golfers! With the lower gravity and thin atmosphere, they could hit the ball for a mile ( kilometer ). Monitor the news. I think that the SEC wants to send Musk to Mars. The Star Trek analogies are getting old. In the 23rd century, they had silver painted 55 gallon barrels in the cargo bay. Control room was push buttons, sliders, toggles and a 'Hurst' shifter' to jump to warp. In the original 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' movie, Klaatu & Gort waved their hands over proximity sensors for function control. Cost effective set construction. When the first episode of Star Trek aired, Gene Roddenberry's father went up and down his neighborhood and apologized to his neighbors. I wonder if he used the sidewalks or walked across the lawns? The new Star Trek franchise pulled in something from the past. The noise from Kirk's motorcycle when he is in Iowa travelling to the shuttle for new recruits, is the noise of George Jetson's vehicle. Had enough of the Hollywood 'future-isms'? Artificial Intelligence. I have been using AI for a long time................whenever I put my key in the front door........................

^^^ more advances in space exploration in 50 yrs than there is in BF research since the PGF! Lol

Actually, it’s not them I want. It’s the money they get from us I want back for sasquatch research.

So many science deniers who want science to get involved in the hunt for BF.

I’m glad many folks from the older generations had bigger dreams and more ambition than some folks on here! I also hope that my generation and future generations continue to push the envelope and not sit back on their heels because it sounds hard or impossible. Here’s to the Wright brothers, the Aldrins, the Glenn’s, and Musks of the world.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandvagn_206 These were extensively used in Alaska by the Army. When they became available as surplus, Alaskans bought them up, and were willing to pay lots for them. I’ve heard from Army mechanics that the Mercedes engine was rather finicky and problematic, but I don’t know the details. I don’t know if it was an air cooled Deutz, which I had some experience with as a forklift mechanic many years ago. That Deutz engine is a remarkable engine. The one guy I know who got a surplus SUS-V installed an American engine in it........I forgot which. Oh, the SUS-V floats.........like my Argo.

*scratches head* So Alexander Graham Bell would be unimpressed with the latest version on the Iphone!!?? All of human knowledge accessable by a keypad? Global news....the local weather report.....wikipedia...... huh. I think you protest too much. Cave to Cosmos is no myth.....we have already done it. Our robots have already studied every planet in the solar system. And one has flown past Pluto. We dont need a new propulsion system to get to Mars. We have sent robotic payloads and landed them safely on the surface already??? Hello?

No offense taken at all WSA. I am going to buy into that hype, advancement may not happen as fast as I’d like, yes there are flies in the ointment, but your example of my phone being refinement of old technology is exactly what I bank on. Refinement, advancement, pushing forward!! We have taken leaps and bounds in a short time in respect to man kind, we need to keep our foot on the proverbial pedal and we only do that by pushing forward.

No offense at all Twist. You are just one of many who have bought into the myth of progress. You know, the story line about how mankind is destined go from the cave to the cosmos. Except that we aren't. Notice that all the happy news about interstellar travel (and even interplanetary travel) glosses over the propulsion issues. At the most, when it is acknowledged, it is dismissed as only a trivial matter that we'll no doubt work out just in time to claim our destiny. Not a small fly in the ointment, wouldn't you say? Us going to Mars... even if there was some advantage to our species to do that... by being shot out into interplanetary space atop a gigantic roman candle that Galileo could probably trouble-shoot if he were still around is not exactly Star Trek. You may realize too that the computer in your pocket is only a refinement of a technology that has bee around for a long time. Alexander Graham Bell could probably pick one up and be happily chatting with Watson after about an hour of study. (Although he'd probably be really bemused about why, when you have voice communication, you'd ever want to type a message out on a tiny keyboard, even though the QWERTY is something he'd also have no trouble recognizing, and using)

Hey, gotta start somewhere right? Just keep reposting the ad and eventually the roster will grow. I posted in 'groups' as well as the musicians community being a musician myself. Most of the responses came from the musician's community. What I am going to do is post a questionnaire here that may help get things started should a sighting happen and that way anyone can go meet the witness and conduct an interview. Another thing regarding a group of people from a surrounding area. Each one must know the terrain in which they live to include all thing topographical like valleys, ravines, culverts, bridges and anything else that a creature could use as a hidden avenue for exiting the sighting location. These things can then be scouted from the road as members patrol the roads around the encounter. The group should be in place and everyone should have met everyone long before a contact phone number is advertised. Otherwise there is a great potential for the whole thing to fall apart. There is an order to things and common sense will dictate what that order is. Build slow and get to know the people you are trusting a bit before going public. There will be no bosses or leaders and that is a point that many stumble over. People are used to dealing with some kind of organized entity and the SRN is anything but. It is strictly a local idea and any member of a cell can start their own further away from the initial one any time they wish. I will post this again to show graphically what different cells may look like if mapped out to show each one's autonomy. some people in one group CAN be part of another depending on where they are located or the geography of the area like say, mountains

Hiflier, I posted a craigslist ad a couple weeks back, just to see if there was anyone in this area interested and did get some responses, two exactly. I would be happy to post some more and set something up in this area.

^^ Agreed, go to the moon, launch from there, maybe to mars, maybe further by then. Point being, we move forward.

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.