Bigfoot Steadied AbitBy far the most famous of all "evidence" for the Bigfoot/Sasquatch/Yeti/Abominable Snowman claim, is what's known as the "Patterson film," a very shaky - probably 40-second - 16-mm record that appears to show a strange, furry, bipedal creature walking away from the camera. The original film no longer exists, for unknown reasons. Some industrious soul has taken the time to "stabilize" the sequence - that is, to register each image of the main figure in the same spatial relationship to the one immediately preceding it, so that the jerky motion is minimized. The results are very revealing, indeed. Someone took the famous Bigfoot footage, and stabilized it ... now you can clearly tell (of course) that it's just some guy walking: See www.bigfootencounters.com/files/mk_davis_pgf.gif To me, this shows a man in a costume. The gait is very human, it does not in any way resemble what we might expect of a species closer to simians, and the posture is human, as well. Mind you, we cannot know that a Bigfoot/Sasquatch/Yeti/Abominable Snowman would not walk very much like a member of our own species, but it seems a safe assumption that there would be a big difference. Once again, a bit of applied technology has resulted in our seeing further into an old data source and having a better sense of what it might convey to us. Here's a gem: Science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein quotes: The most preposterous notion that H. sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy, without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all history I have already concluded what "industry" author Heinlein refers to... Savant at 1/21/2006 11:03:00 am ;
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