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This type of shielding fashion pops up from time to time. I was curious so I bought an official HECS head covering. Bench tested it and threw it away. I can do better with a $5 aluminized mylar poncho. Here is a test for you on this upcoming outing. Drop a lot of money on HECS suits.....nothing with the color green. Buy $5 survival ponchos. Compare HECS group to the cheaper group. Remember to ground yourselves with a heel strap ground. I want to know how this stuff works in a lightning storm. If you want to go the HECS route, a head net will cover an audio recorder / trail cam with material to spare. Ground the fabric. Head covering is about $20. An audio recorder is easier to shield than a trail cam with flash. Both have switching regulated power supplies. They will have variable AC and DC magnetic fields. Ultrasonic noise will be present, more from the trail cam and the emissions are not symmetrical. HECS can do a little shielding on EMF but not ultrasonics. An interesting note on EMF emissions is the low amount that humans emit amongst other human emissions. There are researchers in Europe building detectors to locate living humans buried by avalanches. Their research is promising. Non hunting fashion material is available. "Ex-static conductive fabric" is about $5 per lineal foot in a 64" wide bolt so you can make your own coverings. Polyester fabric with a carbon thread pattern. Be aware that this type of material is sensitive to washing.............maybe 50 low temperature washings. All shielding materials are sensitive to water. Don't forget grounding means. Trouble shooting with a debit card is a bad idea. Further reading: https://lessemf.com/index.html https://lessemf.com/fabric1.html#1209 That little bear in my profile image walked up to me, sniffed, and walked away. I was wearing jeans and a tee shirt..........cotton, the fabric of life. What the hec.

If a body is in a wooded area wild hogs would feast big time.

I should have prefaced to say G. blacki; sure it could be a hybrid or cousin G. in my way of thinking and forming an opinion based on my meager knowledge, experience and sighting reference at night. Not all of these Sasquatch are massive and not just because they are not full grown. That is something that is not being considered often enough in these diatribes IMHO.

If it evolved in North America rather than traveling here more or less in the form we know it, it's not an ape, it's a monkey. There are examples in zoology of similar-ish creatures filling similar niches that come from different roots ... essentially if a niche is open, something will evolve to fill it. An example is the mara or patagonian hare which is a rodent whose ancestors adapted to fill the niche since there are no true hares there as would be found in similar niches in Europe. There are a couple things seemingly wrong with the true monkey idea. First, no true monkeys that we know of have grown anywhere that large, second, none are bipedal, third, there's not a single hint in the fossil record from North America for either current or previous species of that size. For it to be correct we'd have to be breaking new ground in several areas at once ... seems less probable than an immigrant from Asia (or even Europe). Everything seems to point towards something from genus Homo sharing a close common ancestor with us, the question is ... what, which ancestor, and how far back? H. erectus is a serious possibility but far from the only one we should consider. IMHO, we should not take any cards off the table. None. We simply don't have enough information to support doing so, all we have are belief systems. Filtering what you will look at because if you find it, it won't fit your belief system, is about the surest way I can think of to be wrong. It's dogma, no more, no less. MIB

In looking at my own juvenile picture I think that BF may actually accentuate the crest by hair grooming. The juvenile looked like it’s hair had been greased or slicked up for a Mohawk look and some of Patty’s crest may be hair. Perhaps it is a matter of pride or self recognition for BF to exaggerate the crest. That may be regional as are human fashion trends.

You are forgetting the big pushes out of Africa occurred during the last ice age. In my case the maternal side DNA marker L3 indicated an East African exit about 67,000 years ago and on my Paternal side the M178 marker indicated a exit out of East Africa 70,000 years ago. The Sahara was never a factor and the nile river valley and the middle east was much wetter than it is now. However the mid latitudes of Africa were probably plagued with water shortages. During ice ages much more of the earths water is tied up in the arctic and glaciation, and mid latitudes become very arrid. The half of the US not under ice was arid grasslands because the expanded polor zone pushes the jet stream where the storms form and ride South. I would guess drought and famine were larger factors in the push out of Africa than human wanderlust. Wolly Mammoths were Northern lattitude animals. Being herbivores they needed grass growing at least most of the year to have something to eat. The fact that the polar ice and extensive glaciation covered much of Europe and Northern Asia there was very little habitat left for the Mammoth. Concentrating them where human hunters were forced by the same ice to live also. Mammoth numbers had to have been much smaller because the elephant habitat in Africa and SE Asia in the last ice age is pretty much as it is today. Humans and Mammoths in the same habitat promotes hunting. The human pushes into Asia did not occur until about 60,000 years ago. That gave Asian elephants a big head start before being hunted. Remember the human spread into SE Asia and Polynesia began about 60,000 years ago. To island hop, humans needed boats. If they had them then they certainly had boats 14,000 years ago for the trip into North America. Probably different boats but Japan and parts of China have been sea faring for most of human presence. New evidence suggests that Europeans reached NA first about 23,000 years ago in boats out of ireland... Most likely following the ice sheet across from Europe. Most of Western Alaska and British Columbia are islands with deep inleted coast lines. Easy to traverse with boats but difficult to impossible to walk. Boats were and are still part of the culture and heritage of the Native Alaskans. It is more likely they arrived in boats than developed them after they came. As I mentioned the glacier fields are a formidable barrier. While some sort of North Slope of Alaska traverse East past the mountains into the interior of the Yukon Territory then South is possible, it would be as difficult as crossing antarctica on foot. The migrations of the camels and horses which migrated from NA to Eurasia, bison, and other herbivores predate the movement of modern humans. So humans did not follow them across. The last ice age started about 100,000 years ago. It had nearly ended by the time humans are thought to have come into Western NA. The lower sea levels were still present when the melt started and that is about the time the humans made the crossing. The camel migrated in an earlier ice age which have been going on for the last 2.5 million years. We have had many ice ages lasting about 100,000 years followed by interglacial periods lasting 10,000 to 15,000 years during the last 2.5 million years.