Of course, global warming may have killed it.
Damn you, greenhouse gases! Damn you!
I know there are some interesting beasts down in the deep parts of the ocean. I like to think that in some place where we’ve been, something has just simply managed to elude us for so long.
You may be a little bit of a kook, but at least you went and asked the questions and went out there and did it. And for that, I salute you. (You too,** Tuckerfan**…you big kook).
It’s a shame that apparently the bodies of those giant Nessie creatures evaporate when hitting sunlight like a vampire, instead of leaving a big rotting corpse that would prove their existance once and for all.
The Kelpies eat the corpses. Apparently.
I wonder how much money the mythical "nessie’ brings in to Scotland? is there any reason to visit loch ness otherwise? Seems like something would be found by now, if Nessie actually existed.
I wonder how much money it would cost to drain the loch. That’s the only way to be sure.
IIRC, someone looked into doing that and found that because of all the tiny streams which feed into it, it’s pretty much an impossible task.
That, and the fact that it connects to the sea!
There is a Loch Ness monster, though. I’ve been inside it. It’s called the Foyers power station, a pumped-storage hydroelectric plant which uses Loch Ness as its lower reservoir. You can go to Foyers and you’ll never find it, but it’s there. Two turbines, fifty feet under ground.
One of the tailraces shredded its lining a few years ago, and I investigated the incident. Looked up at the surface from inside a big concrete trombone with water gushing down the sides, pumps removing it as fast as it came in… happy days! From the top it looked like a big hole in the lake surface, which was pretty freaky.
Shredded itself did it? Uh huh. :dubious:
You dismiss out of hand the possibility that it could have been shredded by MASSIVE DINOSAUR TEETH? Eh?
Right - I’ve always felt that their complete lack of bones or other durable remains was damned inconsiderate.
Not out of hand. The intake top is screened, Nessie would have left a hole! The damage was more consistent with a temper tantrum by the Hulk.
No, Nessie can weave the wire strands back together to leave no trace.
I say we drain the loch from orbit.
It gives an income to Drumnadrochit that it would not otherwise have. It’s very tongue-in-cheek though, and in any case it’s a nice part of the world - if a little unexceptional by Scottish scenery standards.