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Offline sluggish

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Re: Photo Experts - Take a Gander...
« Reply #15 on: February 20, 2009, 08:40:23 AM »
I thought King Kong killed that thing...

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Re: Photo Experts - Take a Gander...
« Reply #16 on: February 20, 2009, 08:43:31 AM »
My family has a house up on Lake Champlain.  There's supposedly a Nessie-like monster named "Champ" in the lake.  That show "Monster Quest" did a program on it.  It was interesting that *something* in the lake is using echolocation (which none of the creatures known to inhabit the lake can do), but with all the bass boats and different models of fish finders running around at any one time, it's a stretch to say that it's definitely biologic.

Still, it wouldn't suprise me to find some unknown species in that lake.  It is a massive and diverse ecosystem surrounded in large part (Burlington and Plattsburgh aside) by near-wilderness.  Of course, even as insane as the locals may be, I wouldn't think something as large as a dinosaur would elude everyone for so long.  If the sounds are biologic, it's probably just some new species of fish or mammal commonly misidentified as another common species.

That's a good hypothesis, especially since we already know of fish that can make noise.
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Re: Photo Experts - Take a Gander...
« Reply #17 on: February 20, 2009, 08:50:46 AM »
Too bad there's no scale reference (like a person standing there).  It very well could be a cellphone picture of an anaconda or other big snake swimming in a channel two feet wide lined with swamp cabbage.
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Re: Photo Experts - Take a Gander...
« Reply #18 on: February 20, 2009, 09:21:23 AM »
The mass and weight of something that size would require that river to be much deeper than it is. You can tell by the width. Also the snake would be barely visable as it would ride much lower (Unless its hollow). 
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Re: Photo Experts - Take a Gander...
« Reply #19 on: February 20, 2009, 10:10:16 AM »
it is nabau.

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Re: Photo Experts - Take a Gander...
« Reply #20 on: February 20, 2009, 10:49:12 AM »
Cryptozoology is such a load of bull poop. ;)  The funny thing is that its adherents tend to focus on gigantic creatures, when it's precisely something small that would be more likely to have escaped our attention.  Yes, new species are being discovered all the time, but they're usually quite small or look very similar to something we already know about. [...]

Yes, thats true. Here that report on that colossal squid they "caught" 2006 http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/12/061222-giant-squid.html

Concerning that pic of the watersnake or what so ever it is or should be. I think its photoshopped.
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Re: Photo Experts - Take a Gander...
« Reply #21 on: February 20, 2009, 10:55:10 AM »
I thought King Kong killed that thing...
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Looks like my snake  :O   :rofl
So you're reading glasses have a Macro setting huh?

You know, we live in a world where there new species of animals being found mostly everyday and also there are people who would do just about anything for fame. So, is up to you(the public) to decide whether this picture is real or not. If your a believer, keep on believing... :salute
Of course we find new species, but this would be the equivalent of suddenly discovering that the Earth has a second moon, and that it just happens to be the size of Saturn.  :rofl
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Re: Photo Experts - Take a Gander...
« Reply #22 on: February 20, 2009, 12:35:45 PM »
 :noid...and for the next who wants to know, if he found Atlantis in GoogleEarth, should read this article:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1150846/Hopes-dashed-Google-Ocean-image-lost-city-Atlantis-proves-sort.html
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Re: Photo Experts - Take a Gander...
« Reply #23 on: February 20, 2009, 12:51:03 PM »
Yes, thats true. Here that report on that colossal squid they "caught" 2006 http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/12/061222-giant-squid.html

We've known about the existence of Giant Squid and Colossal Squid for a very long time because we found them in the bellies of sperm whales.  The big deal here is that one has actually been seen alive.
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Re: Photo Experts - Take a Gander...
« Reply #24 on: February 21, 2009, 03:33:27 PM »
Send JLO and Icecube and a uptight wealthy English man to check it out.

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Re: Photo Experts - Take a Gander...
« Reply #25 on: February 22, 2009, 01:52:16 PM »
Send JLO and Icecube and a uptight wealthy English man to check it out.
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