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think my cat hates me? Trying again.
Do you:
- Believe in Bigfoot (in any of its various forms)
- Think it is possible some Bigfeets exists somewhere, but unlikely
- Think anyone who answers #1 is insane, and anyone who answers #2 uninformed?
Also, if you saw a Bigfoot and had a gun and a clear shot, would you kill it? You have no other way of proving you saw it.
My answer is a strong 2.5, and I would not shoot. That would ruin everybody’s fun.
I go with option 1. if you count the monster truck as one of the various forms.
Otherwise, I would say it is possible but unlikely. Since it is impossible to prove that Bigfeets don’t exist, I’m waiting until someone proves that they do to make my decision.
You can’t prove they don’t exist, but you can certainly conclude that it’s as likely they exist as, say,
that this laptop I’m typing on will suddenly turn into a duck.
The only Bigfoot I believe in is one like this. Otherwise, it’s just BS along the lines of the Loch Ness monster.
I suppose it is possible, but unlikely. If I saw one, I wouldn’t shoot it unless I had to in self defense.
Somewhere between 2 and 3. In order for there to be any at all, there’s got to be enough to have a breeding population, etc, which puts their numbers into the hundreds or thousands or something. We would’ve found some (real) evidence somewhere if that was the case. However, there are a few, albeit rapidly dwindling areas of the world where such a thing might be possible, but still incredibly unlikely.
Probably around 2. I am open to the possibility.
Would I shoot it? Depends on how strongly I felt about whether it was a man or an animal. If we assume it definitely not a relative of man, yeah, I probably would.
This just isn’t true. There are and have been many species that dwindled down to extremely low numbers indeed. Also, we don’t know how it breeds or how long it lives. It could eat magic faerie dust and crap unicorns, for all we know. That’s what makes it so much fun. The sky’s the limit when you’re hunting snipe.
Between 2 and 3. It is very unlikely but not totally impossible I guess. I am a realist, but how freaking awesome would it be if some scientist captured one alive! Also, don’t shoot the thing fercryinoutloud. It’s obviously endangered (which means that you’d probably go to jail) and would be so much more usefull to the scientific community alive than dead.
I have no doubts that Bigfoot is a hoax. The Yeti, OTOH, is very doubtful. Finding *some * unknown ape somewhere is just unlikely.
I’m not going to label any believers but to me the very notion is beyond unrealistic and bordering on silly.
And no I wouldn’t shoot it. I don’t want to kill the prankster inside.
I’m a 1 here, and no animadversions on my looks, please. It seems to me people have focused too much on the question of an individual bigfoot, and not on the question of bigfoot ecology.
I guess I’m a 1.75. I believe that there may have been bigfeet in recent history. But the chances of one or more of them living relatively undiescovered in the present, are highly unlikely.
2, I guess. Sure, it’s possible. I’m pretty sure they’re not in America, though.
I don’t understand. Could you elaborate?
Aside from a few questionable footprints and photographs and video footage of dubious authenticity, there is zero physical evidence for such a creature; no bones, no hair, no droppings. Nothing. So, I’m pretty close to a 3.
Even the official “Bigfoot Field Research Organization” says that informed estimates of breeding populations for there to still be bigfeet out there is in the thousands. “Cite”.
(God, I can’t believe I used them as a cite)
Anyway, though we don’t know exactly how it lives or breeds, I’m pretty sure they’ve been narrowed down to being primates, at least, and about those we know plenty, so I’m pretty sure the numbers wouldn’t single or double digit, if they exist. Maybe a doper primate expert can chime in with a real cite, but I’m pretty sure I read or heard somewhere that for at least some of the sightings to be true over the number of years they’ve been reported, the breeding population has to be up there.
Count me as another who doesn’t understand what you mean by this. Oh, I know what the words mean, but I’m not getting your point. You can’t have a bigfoot ecology without individual bigfoots (bigfeet?), right?
No.
Not absolutely impossible, but the chance is extremely remote.
No, just gullible and unable to evaluate evidence (or the lack of it).
No. I would not be inclined to kill anything as intelligent as an ape; though in the same circumstances I could kill a monkey.
No, I wouldn’t shoot it.
If I could control my instinctual impulse to run and rationally remind myself that no Bigfoot has ever hurt a human and they must be very intelligent to carefully avoid leaving behind any evidence of their existence I’d chase that big oaf 'til it got tired, tackle it and proceed to tickle it until it agreed to be my friend. Then I’d give it my chocolate protein bar because every fool knows you don’t go off into the woods without a chocolate protein bar.
I wouldn’t tell anyone neither, but you’ll recognize me by the smug look on my face.