Raising the stakes on Bigfoot
So some loons are offering a $1 million prize to anybody who can capture a verifiable photograph or video of Bigfoot. Why don’t I think they need to be worried about the million anytime soon? I’m thinking it’ll be at least a month before anybody manages a decent enough fraud to fool their panel and claim the money, by which time a million dollars will be worth about enough to get a turnip. Also, they’re not liable for any injury incurred during a Bigfoot attack, so watch out!
The best thing about this is how boneheaded that article is. This part’s my favourite: "There’s no way to authenticate a Bigfoot photograph by itself; the image is simply a two-dimensional pattern of pixels. To truly prove a Bigfoot exists, you’d need corroborating hard evidence like a body, teeth, or bones." I guess this doofus has heard of Photoshop, but he seems to think it’s impossible to fake hard evidence. Oh, journalists can be so cute when they’re insufferably naïve.
Even beyond the idea of faking up a Bigfoot photo–how do you “verify” that a photo, even if it is 100% legitimate and not faked, is actually of the unknown primate that legend and myth have named “Bigfoot”? Couldn’t it just be a severely deformed bear that LOOKS remarkably like this so-called “Bigfoot”? How can you verify that you’ve taken a picture of something that is… unknown?
The real thing to do is photograph Mokele-Mbembe. Mostly because I just like bringing up Mokele-Mbembe whenever you mention Bigfoot or other cryptids.
Comment by Dave | 17 June 2008
It’s no fun how you don’t get mad at me anymore for calling it Mhungazonga Mubuntu.
Comment by Darien | 17 June 2008