The Sykes / Sartori Report - Oxford-Lausanne Collateral Hominid Project

[Guest OntarioSquatch]

^lol I wonder why they chose orange. Other than the suit, I found that documentary misleading to say the least.

[Guest Kerchak]

I suspect Optic Nerve told them it'd be good enough, especially seeing as Chris Walas bizarrely didn't have a high opinion of Patty. Interesting the BBC narrator/presenter, in contrast, actually thought Patty (the 'suit) was very good an "no amateur job".

[Guest BFSleuth]

Is there a link to that BBC documentary? I trashed by favorites and lost my link. I had it under "comedy".

[Guest]

Go to twitter. Find @NatureNews. See what they just retweeted. Apparently Ms. Ketchum has some fast moving competition. Yeti DNA project scheduled from May- December 2012. Take samples now, and publish in 6 months.

[Guest]

Related, has anyone caught this? Very mainstream science.

http://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/academic/GBFs-v/OLCHP

[bipedalist]

Great links. Seems this is what got labeled The Meldrum Study: thread topic somewhere else.

which should probably now get labled the Collateral Hominid Oxford-Lausanne Project or some derivation of that.....

sounds like a ramped up attempt to verify additional samples from the Ketchum project and beyond for sure.

I wish them luck and a boat-load of fresh samples.

[Cisco]

Well, there's no doubt as to the authenticity of this study. Furthermore, I think we can infer that they must already know something or else they would not be sticking their necks out this far?

[Guest]

^lol I wonder why they chose orange.

Colors can appear different under different lighting conditions. Part of a professional costumers' job is to anticipate how a fabric and color will appear on film as opposed to how it will appear on the set.

I'll give you a good example: the tunics for the three operational departments in classic Trek (Command, Science, and Operations) were supposed to be GREEN, blue, and red.

The fabric type chosen for Command was a medium/light green, between this:

http://www.art-paint...ent-Green.html\

and this:

http://www.art-paint...ight-Green.html

You can see the exact shade in any ep where Kirk wears the "wraparound" alternate CO tunic, which was the same color, but made from different fabric so it retained it's hue under the lighting.

http://zombieroom.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/tunic.jpg

Under stage lighting, the camera picked it up as a "goldenrod yellow"

http://www.art-paint...rod-Yellow.html

I think the BBC guys made a mistake in interpreting that factor.

Edited May 22, 2012 by Mulder

[Guest]

Thanks for the link wtb1. I couldn't get it done on my phone. It's interesting to me that I found it on twitter from Nature- since they supposedly handed Ketchum's back without publishing. I think this shows they do have an interest in the topic. And a 6 month timeline! Total project in 6 months!

[southernyahoo]

If Nature saw Ketchums paper and handed it back, yet still has such an interest, then they must realise their mistake by now. This doesn't sound like a "yeti" specific study but more like any cryptid hominid. I would like to hear about how they intend to structure the study to ensure it's integrity and what specific tests they will be doing. Perhaps this is only shared with submitters.

[Guest]

http://www.livescience.com/20487-yeti-bigfoot-dna-cryptozoology.html

[Guest]

Yes

[Guest]

But what will Mulder write about now? *that was a joke*. I for one am very excited about this.

[Guest OntarioSquatch]

It's getting serious

[Guest gershake]

posted in another thread: http://www.livescience.com/20487-yeti-bigfoot-dna-cryptozoology.html

"While Sykes doesn't expect to find solid evidence of a yeti or Bigfoot monster, he says he is keeping an open mind and hopes to identify perhaps 20 of the suspect samples. Along the way, he'd be happy if he found some unknown species."

(bolding mine)