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  1. This is on my list to try. David makes it look easy!
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  2. Greetings, I became interested in the Sasquatch hypothesis when I started developing a course on the culture of science and how the scientific community defines and enforces the boundaries of "legitimate" research questions. In my teaching and my research, I emphasize grappling with the best evidence with regard to any seemingly strange or paranormal phenomena. I am currently beginning collaborative DNA research to examine anomalous and alleged Sasquatch physical samples.
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  3. Just ordered this. Will see how I like it. Good backup! https://www.amazon.com/Wazoo-Bushcraft-Fire-Starter-Necklace/dp/B07X2M22JZ/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8
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  4. I'd never be caught dead, much less alive, in a cave or mine shaft. Too claustrophobic. It may be a good opportunity lost but a person has to play to their strengths and avoid their weaknesses. You and Northwind got the badge the old-fashioned way....you earned!!
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  5. The fire-and-ashes roll is an excellent idea. Nature provides many of the things we can use in an emergency. Fir-resin blisters provide a liquid that will ignite in a pinch. That, mixed with the feathery strips of bark from red cedar (both western and eastern) can be combined to make a fool-proof tinder bundle. Add hardened resin scrapings we see on the outside of fir trees to the fire and you will have a hot and sustainable fire whch can then ignite larger pieces of wood.
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  6. Very cool - it's hard work for sure! i LOVE fires, and I seldom get to have one, so I play around a lot at home with my Volcano Fire pit, and BBQ in it. I head out down the forested strip near my home and look for appropriate dead, downed wood, and give it a go with that. Yes, I get weird looks. Do I care? Not really. As long as no one calls the cops on me while I'm out there, LOL! I find it's so much easier - duh - to light a fire with a fire starter assist. That's what the technology is for, so I practice using it. Since I always keep fire starting stuff in my zipped leg pocket of my pants, even if I lost everything else, I have a few fireplugs and a ferro rod in my pant's pocket, and a Mini-Bic lighter. I'll never have the strength to do the whole shoe lace fire drill, so I work with what I'm most likely to have on me. I admit I also carry tinder in my backpack - a handful of very dry sticks if I had to get an emergency fire going, in order to have something going in order to dry out more wood while it burns down. The tools I carry in my pack are there to help keep me alive, so why not stack the deck? I also carry a fire's worth of wood in my truck, where it's always dry and ready to go if needed while we're out there wandering around looking for forest giants. In summer, it would be easy (and usually illegal) to start a fire, so it would be a HUGE emergency that would require one. But in winter, it could be literally the difference between life and death, especially since we are always around so much water and rain, which could lead to hypothermia. In winter, my tinder kit is in a sealable scent-lock bag and consists of emergency matches, a BIC lighter, fire plugs, dry birch bark, char cloth, fat wood and, like I said, about a half dozen sticks. Practice, practice, practice. And then barbecue something nice! I've always wanted to practice more bushcraft type stuff while we're out there, so I may begin adding that in to our adventures and videos. I have some lovely gear that I'm itching to try out.
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  7. We went to a few he knew right off the highway, nothing deeper into the woods. No wells. Might be an interesting thing to explore more, but also a bit risky. Getting stuck in a cave a few miles from the truck in the middle of nowhere does not sound like my idea of a good time. But caves are something we look for, for sure! We found one once, in an icy, burned area, with a high heat signature in it. Could have been a bear or cougar, but we weren't inclined to get much closer to check! Also, I'm LOVING the new badge down below. That's SO COOL!!! Thanks!
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  8. Hi all! I just found this website tonight. I live in Ontario, Canada and have always been fascinated by the idea of bigfoot. I think people who insist there's no way it could exist are massively underestimating just how much wilderness there is, especially in Canada. The mountain gorilla was a also unverified once upon a time. I look forward to speaking with everyone here
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  9. I've invested a fair amount of time practicing fire starting using friction methods. The classic firebow. Matt Graham and Cody Lundin on Dual Survival made friction fire look easy. It is very difficult. Choice of available wood species for both spindle and hearth board, getting adequate tinder, humidity, and so much more plays into ultimate success or failure. I tried the hand drill but achieved nothing except painful blisters. I used to push myself to use primitive methods. In that regard, my competitive spirit has given way to convenience. Nowadays, I carry three Bic lighters and tinder in the form of residue from the clothes dryer and vasoline. I also carry a very thin birthday-cake type candle. When I know I'm staying overnight, I still look for natural tinder during my backpack into the location.
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  10. How about weird science? I do weird science and try to do weird science every day. First, throw out reflectance. Go down your animal inventory list, including yourself because humans have eyeshine. Look at the shape of the eyes and shape of the pupils. Round eyes, elongated eyes. Round pupils, vertical slits, horizontal slits. How fast do animal pupils react? Humans have eyeshine and our pupils react very fast. Have you been the victim of 'red eye' in flash photography? The 'pre-flash' was developed to minimize red eye. The pre-flash emits enough light before image capture to make our pupils react and close down. Forget reflectance. Using human vision to make wild ass guesses about Sasquatch vision is speculative. Human color perception is subjective. I am game. Primate evolution is assumed. Night vision, scotopic, is without color and done with rods. Day vision, photopic, with color, is done with cones: red, green and blue. Rods have peak sensitivity of about 498nm, in the green-blue region. Red cones have a range of about 500nm--700nm, with peak sensitivity about 564nm--580nm. Green cones have a range of about 450nm--630nm, with peak sensitivity about 534nm---555nm. ( hint hint hint notice I am not listing the blue cone ). Photons hit the retina and electrical impulses are created. There is a delay between the impulses and they do not arrive at the vision processing areas simultaneously. The delay in signals is 10s of milliseconds but it all comes together to make images. Cones and rods operate in an 'on-off' scenario to send signals. There are several different channels used to send signals. Red-green use one channel. Blue-yellow use a separate channel. The rod channel, black and white, is the luminance channel. Our visual signals are pulsed. This brings up 'critical fusion flicker frequency'. Anyone have trouble with flickering flourescent lights? I have not seen projected light. I am aware of red and green light. Is the light pulsed? If pulsed, and the rate is higher than the critical fusion flicker frequency then humans would see a continuous light. I am thinking that the rod cones aren't firing when the projected light occurs. If there is over lap, the luminance channel is separate from the red-green channel. Alternating visual signals and light emitting signals. The retina can generate its own flourescence. The deepest layer of cells of the retina are called 'retinal pigment epithelium', ( RPE ) and contain flourescent compounds. Weird science never rests. CAT I reviewed emails. So far, time of illumination is less than a minute.
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  11. Old Indian legends of kidnappings are too ubiquitous to ignore. Ostman's account of Bigfoot appearance was also remarkably consistent with later reports. Considering that there was very little accurate knowledge of Bigfoot in those days and in the time Ostman was interviewed in 1957, I am inclined to view his account as genuine.
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  12. Accounts of kidnappings by Bigfoot-like creatures are very ancient. Going back at least hundreds of years to pre-Columbian times if not further. Many old American Indian legends. Especially in the Pacific Northwest. Also, look into the account of Muchalat Harry, an American Indian of the Nookta tribe on Vancouver Island, British Columbia was allegedly kidnapped by a Bigfoot. His account, if true, was absolutely terrifying as it appears he the creatures were planning to eat him as evidenced by bones littering the creatures camp site. http://www.bigfootencounters.com/classics/muchalat.htm
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  13. Hominins have always been an adventurous race. What drove us to brave the deserts of the Sahara and the Middle East in wave after wave after wave in order to leave Africa? It’s just in our biology to be explorers and it’s one of the reasons we began to walk upright in the first half place. I’m still skeptical of the Marx Overkill Theory. Why were elephants in Asia and Africa spared but mammoths (amongst other ice age megafauna) in Europe and the Americas systematically targeted for slaughter and wiped out? I think it’s always been about the warming climate rendering shaggy fur obsolete (no matter what our friends on the right accuse of simply being a Chinese hoax or a “greenie/liberal” conspiracy theory). I’m not saying we didn’t occasionally hunt them or even scavenge from kills but surely they weren’t the easiest quarry to bring down and decimate?? I think they were here long before we were. The Cerutti Mastadon site is thought to be 130,000 years old. Big assumption tying this to Sasquatch I admit but I have to ask ‘what else had the means of smashing a mastadon bone with a crude cobble 117,000 years before the first paleo-Indian showed up?’ Homo had entered Eurasia as early as 2 million years ago. It’s anybody’s guess how long it took them to find Beringia and trek it but the potential is there for it to be a pretty long while back. I don’t doubt the difficulty of the terrain one bit but if mammoths, bison, wolves, bears, etc were able to make the trek numerous times without boats then it’s entirely possible that a bipedal hominin was able to follow these herds into the new world without boats as well when the water levels were much lower.
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