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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Vudak on February 19, 2009, 06:51:59 PM
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This is a supposed photo of some gigantic snake in Borneo. I don't know much about photos but it looks like the width of the snake is larger than the height of some trees. Just how fake is this?
(http://portal.aolcdn.com/p/images4/1-borneo-monster-200ds021909.jpg)
Here's the story, by the way:
http://news.aol.com/article/borneo-monster/351853 (http://news.aol.com/article/borneo-monster/351853)
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I'm not a expert eather but wouldnt the ripples in the water be much larger?
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Check out the poll results on that site. Geez, the stupid sh*t that people are eagar to believe. :rolleyes: And yes, relative to the vegetation onshore, that "snake" looks like it's several hundred yds long!
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Looks more like a Boat then a snake
Crims
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Yeah, a boat that is making S's in the water. If that's a snake, I'm the Queen of England.
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Yeah, a boat that is making S's in the water. If that's a snake, I'm the Queen of England.
Well we knew that from day one, your point? :D
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<--- Looks down
Looks like my snake :O :rofl
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I'm thinking it's just a boat making zigg-zaggs in the water
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Looks like a boat and wake in the water.
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Supposedly the photo was taken by some folks in a helicopter doing a flood survey, or something of that nature. So the real question is... why would a professional photographer (or at least one professional enough to be hired for this particular task) take a solitary photo of something so spectacular? Heck, they take 30 photos of things that are stupid crap so they can pick the best one out of the bunch.
So if this is authentic image, why is this the one photo that surfaces? Seems to me like they'd post all 30 of them.
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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
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The second "photo" looks MUCH MUCH smaller than the first... so either it's fake... or there's two of the bloody monsters!
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fake
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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.
When I worked at an Aquarium in California, people loved to ask about the Megalodon shark (~50ft long), and whether there might still be some alive lurking in the deep ocean somewhere. However, the fossilized teeth not only show this creature to have been extinct for millions of years, but also that it was a warm/shallow-water shark primarily distributed along the coastline.
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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.
When I worked at an Aquarium in California, people loved to ask about the Megalodon shark (~50ft long), and whether there might still be some alive lurking in the deep ocean somewhere. However, the fossilized teeth not only show this creature to have been extinct for millions of years, but also that it was a warm/shallow-water shark primarily distributed along the coastline.
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.
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I thought King Kong killed that thing...
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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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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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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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it is nabau.
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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 (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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I thought King Kong killed that thing...
:rofl
<--- Looks down
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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: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 (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1150846/Hopes-dashed-Google-Ocean-image-lost-city-Atlantis-proves-sort.html)
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Yes, thats true. Here that report on that colossal squid they "caught" 2006 http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/12/061222-giant-squid.html (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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Send JLO and Icecube and a uptight wealthy English man to check it out.
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Send JLO and Icecube and a uptight wealthy English man to check it out.
LOL.......