Guest DWA Posted December 19, 2013 Share Posted December 19, 2013 ^^^And how do we know TARDIS isn't translating for these guys, hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm? OK, bipto. Is there anybody in your group...um, you know....some misunderstood-type chick, who always acts like she's pining away for somebody who isn't, you know, ever really there, to all appearances...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norseman Posted December 19, 2013 Admin Share Posted December 19, 2013 Pro kill proponents get slammed from both directions don't they? What could be more important than a type specimen and proof to science? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest DWA Posted December 19, 2013 Share Posted December 19, 2013 I'm tempted to shoot one just to hear what its last words would be. OK, that was just mean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drew Posted December 19, 2013 Share Posted December 19, 2013 I think that if Wood Apes can do the things that y'all claim they can do. Then a language is not a huge step. I mean clearly they are not animals. No animal could avoid being killed and found for so long. Leopards are hunted and killed and they are probably the most elusive large animal in the world, they have been getting killed by locals for thousands of years, long before guns. Humans have been attempting to avoid detection, and they are clearly the smartest creature on the planet, but they still get caught. Wood Apes probably speak several languages, since they must have super-human intelligence to evade our technology and weapon making ability, and group hunting tactics, and traps, and can evade highway collisions, when humans can not. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cotter Posted December 19, 2013 Share Posted December 19, 2013 Drew - how many times have you been hit by a car while crossing the road? And surely you aren't suggesting there are 7 billion BF's out there? (the approx. population of humans on the planet). Gotta look at it on a per-capita basis. In 2010, there were 7,400 pedestrian deaths in the US (a % of .0025% based on a US population of 300,000,000). 33% of pedestrian vs vehicle accidents, the pedestrian was over the legal BAC limit to drive....Since BF doesn't drink (I assume), we can perhaps reduce the 7,400 to 2/3 which is 4884, changing out % now to .0016%) There have been no numbers given to say how many rural vs urban pedestrian deaths there are, but one can safely assume the majority of pedestrian vs vehicle accidents happen in urban areas. My point being. If say, there were 300 BF living in the PNW, it would take decades for one to be killed by a vehicle. If one was killed, the % of recovery is very low as well.....so, I don't think the fact one hasn't been piled up on the road for some news crew or scientist to come up to and document is anything out of the ordinary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest DWA Posted December 19, 2013 Share Posted December 19, 2013 (edited) My point being. If say, there were 300 BF living in the PNW, it would take decades for one to be killed by a vehicle. If one was killed, the % of recovery is very low as well.....so, I don't think the fact one hasn't been piled up on the road for some news crew or scientist to come up to and document is anything out of the ordinary. Ding. This critter probably has one or two things we haven't run into before (bipedal nonhuman primate; from our branch of the tree; with eyeshine). Other than stuff like that, it's nothing out of the ordinary. Our reaction to the idea of it? Now that's weird. Which, for humans...is nothing out of the ordinary. Edited December 19, 2013 by DWA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norseman Posted December 19, 2013 Admin Share Posted December 19, 2013 Ya......I'm sure Kawahiva Indians are killed on Brazilian highways on a daily basis....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheri Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 No, it's based on logic. Even if you want to entertain the notion that they're capable of speech (which I do not), why would they be speaking English!? This isn't an episode of Star Trek where all the aliens happen to speak our language or Doctor Who where the TARDIS translates for everyone. It doesn't make any damned sense. What, they learned our language from hanging out on the margins of our society? Did they fish some English texts out of the dump and teach themselves? Was it missionaries? Did they build a radio out of coconuts like on Gilligan's Island? How, exactly, would a culture of human-like "people" learn our language without any direct interaction with us? Rosetta Stone ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gotta Know Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 (edited) deleted Edited December 20, 2013 by Gotta Know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 The few car collision reports I know of, the BF got away alive and upright, car took the worse of it. Although I am sure a couple have been whacked but swept under the rug by someone. BF populations gott abe in the thousands in the continental US though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the parkie Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 No, it's based on logic. I do think the idea that they're mimicking our speech is very much a possibility. They are very good mimics. But that's mimicry like a parrot, not speech. They might be stringing together the kinds of sounds we make and throwing them back at us, but that's not talking. This would very much be my favoured logical assumption too. Assumptions based on human logic are not always correct though! But of course I'm not there. Was it only once that something has come onto the porch? I presume if it happened again it would be observable from the hide that will be resurrected (sorry can't remember what you called it). I really must listen to the last two podcasts re X and get up to speed. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 I have heard the BF mumble talk outside my tent in the ridgeline outside of Honobia and it was weird Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 Cats chase laser pointers they arent that smart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norseman Posted December 20, 2013 Admin Share Posted December 20, 2013 Drew, Neither does Sasquatch, but in order for you to show the subject in a bad light, you take every report you can find as opposed to separating them objectively. It's your prerogative to do so, but it's no way to solve a mystery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 Assumptions based on human logic are not always correct though! I'm not sure what I'm applying is "human logic." The idea that bigfoot speak English requires some explanation as to how they learned it. That's just logic. So...I dunno. Was it only once that something has come onto the porch? I presume if it happened again it would be observable from the hide that will be resurrected (sorry can't remember what you called it). I can't recall any other accounts off the top of my head from our members of one of them coming up onto the porch before, but they have approached the cabin many times. It was one of the prime reasons we built the Overwatch structure and continue to think it will help us accomplish our goals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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