# There is NO unicorn here.....maybe unicorns are invisible? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 27, 2012, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-unicorn-here-maybe-unicorns-are-invisible/632804 "2012-08-27T10:48:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-unicorn-here-maybe-unicorns-are-invisible/632804/1 "2012-08-27T10:48:29Z")
Bigfoot bugs me, because it makes no logical sense. There is simply no way a self sustaining population of larger than human apes are living and reproducing in north america with no evidence left. In most areas there isn’t even enough food to support such a population. What do the believers say when faced with all that? Why bigfoot must be able to become invisible of course!:smack: Totally if the physical evidence doesn’t match well we’ll just invent supernatural reasons why it could still be true! Is there any other case(aside from religion) where when faced with cold evidence unicorns can’t exist believers just come up with hey maybe unicorns are invisible! ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-unicorn-here-maybe-unicorns-are-invisible/632804/2 "2012-08-27T10:57:11Z")
I don’t think I’ve ever heard a Bigfoot believer claim the obviously supernatural. They’re usually much more grounded. A typical rebuttal would be more like they obviously have well hidden subterranean villages. And they practice agriculture that is stealthy enough to just look like random growth, that’s how they get food! Same with Nessie, well CLEARLY your scans didn’t pick her up because she hid in an underwater cave that your radar can’t penetrate! ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-unicorn-here-maybe-unicorns-are-invisible/632804/3 "2012-08-27T11:10:25Z")
> [@grude](#): > > Is there any other case(aside from religion) where when faced with cold evidence unicorns can’t exist believers just come up with hey maybe unicorns are invisible! There’s the idea that psychic powers don’t work around skeptics; or even better, that skeptics are themselves psychics who suppress the psychic powers of others, making it look like psychic powers don’t exist when they are around. ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-unicorn-here-maybe-unicorns-are-invisible/632804/4 "2012-08-27T11:13:45Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > There’s the idea that psychic powers don’t work around skeptics; or even better, that skeptics are themselves psychics who suppress the psychic powers of others, making it look like psychic powers don’t exist when they are around. I have to admit… if there were psychic powers and I could unfailingly suppress them, it **would** be unbelievably tempting to do Randi’s gig in said hypothetical universe. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-unicorn-here-maybe-unicorns-are-invisible/632804/5 "2012-08-27T11:59:46Z")
Unicorns are just plain impossible. Even if a Manatee that wanted to be a unicorn really, really badly it would just end up as a Narwhal. ---
**Author:** ![RalfCoder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@RalfCoder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RalfCoder)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-unicorn-here-maybe-unicorns-are-invisible/632804/6 "2012-08-27T12:26:10Z")
Hell-LOO!!! Simply EVERYONE knows that Bigfoot hides out in his invisible glass UFO. He’s hovering about 200 feet overhead right now, looking down and giggling at all the people searching for him. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-unicorn-here-maybe-unicorns-are-invisible/632804/7 "2012-08-27T13:45:16Z")
I know of a chateau in France that has two real unicorn heads mounted on the [wall](http://www.lestroisgarcons.com/chateau/about.html). So there. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-unicorn-here-maybe-unicorns-are-invisible/632804/8 "2012-08-27T13:46:18Z")
> [@grude](#): > > What do the believers say when faced with all that? Why bigfoot must be able to become invisible of course! Who says this?? ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-unicorn-here-maybe-unicorns-are-invisible/632804/9 "2012-08-27T13:49:47Z")
> [@grude](#): > > Bigfoot bugs me, because it makes no logical sense. There is simply no way a self sustaining population of larger than human apes are living and reproducing in north america with no evidence left. In most areas there isn’t even enough food to support such a population. > > What do the believers say when faced with all that? Why bigfoot must be able to become invisible of course!:smack: Totally if the physical evidence doesn’t match well we’ll just invent supernatural reasons why it could still be true! > > Is there any other case(aside from religion) where when faced with cold evidence unicorns can’t exist believers just come up with hey maybe unicorns are invisible! Why would they eat any more than, say, bears? There’s clearly enough food out there to support bears, yes? I certainly agree with the “…no evidence left…” objection – after all, we can hardly help noticing bears. I just don’t buy the “there’s not enough food” objection. ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-unicorn-here-maybe-unicorns-are-invisible/632804/10 "2012-08-27T14:04:31Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > Who says this?? It is a theory some bigfoot believers espouse, it seems to be becoming more popular as it becomes clear there are limited even plausible bigfoot habitats left. > **[Cryptomundo » Invisible Bigfoot?](https://cryptomundo.com/bigfoot-report/invisible-bf/)** > > Cryptomundo » Invisible Bigfoot? [io9.com/5635018/the-five-strangest-theories-about-sasquatch](http://io9.com/5635018/the-five-strangest-theories-about-sasquatch) Or google bigfoot invisible for more on it including youtube videos. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-unicorn-here-maybe-unicorns-are-invisible/632804/11 "2012-08-27T14:06:53Z")
Bigfoot is sooo passé. Those of us in the know call him Squatch. ---
**Author:** ![kferr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71e660/32.png) [@kferr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kferr)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-unicorn-here-maybe-unicorns-are-invisible/632804/12 "2012-08-27T14:44:26Z")
I’ve got unicorn evidence [right here!](http://www.fakeposters.com/posters/unicorns/) ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-unicorn-here-maybe-unicorns-are-invisible/632804/13 "2012-08-27T15:10:48Z")
> [@RalfCoder](#): > > Hell-LOO!!! Simply EVERYONE knows that Bigfoot hides out in his invisible glass UFO. He’s hovering about 200 feet overhead right now, looking down and giggling at all the people searching for him. Damn it, busted! ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-unicorn-here-maybe-unicorns-are-invisible/632804/14 "2012-08-27T15:36:13Z")
> [@Martian Bigfoot](#): > > Damn it, busted! I’m gonna go on record as saying this is the best post on the intarwebz today. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-unicorn-here-maybe-unicorns-are-invisible/632804/15 "2012-08-27T15:46:44Z")
> [@grude](#): > > … Is there any other case(aside from religion) where when faced with cold evidence unicorns can’t exist believers … What’s the evidence that unicorns can’t exist? I don’t believe they do exist, but I don’t know that it’s possible to prove that something can’t exist, with the possible exception that it would violate some fundamental laws of nature. Would a unicorn violate a fundamental law of nature? ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-unicorn-here-maybe-unicorns-are-invisible/632804/16 "2012-08-27T16:03:28Z")
> [@grude](#): > > Is there any other case(aside from religion) where when faced with cold evidence unicorns can’t exist believers just come up with hey maybe unicorns are invisible! Sure there is, science for one. For example, faced with evidence that mass-energy is not conserved in some subatomic reactions, Pauli came up with the idea of the neutrino, a particle for which there was no other evidence, and which, at the time, was such as to be totally undetectable. Science actually does stuff like this all the time. Sometimes the invisible things scientists postulate to explain stuff turn out to be real, sometimes not (and at any one time ther will be lots of things where we still don’t know if they are truly real or not - right now, [superstrings](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superstring) for example). Even after there has been extensive testing, science remains full of theoretical entities with weird, counterintuitive properties, that no one can see, and that can only be detected very indirectly through their effects on other things. Have you, or anyone, ever _seen_ a Higg’s boson, or a black hole, or an atom, come to that? Do you even know what the evidence that any of these things exist actually looks like? I guarantee you that if you were shown such evidence, it would mean nothing to you (unless you happen to be a scientist very familiar with the relevant field). It might be just some ranodm looking scratchy lines on a photographic plate, for example. To know why it proves anything you have to buy into, and understand, a huge and complex theoretical apparatus beforehand, as well as understanding a lot of details about how some particular experiment was set up. The pattern of appealing to invisible or even undetectable things with weird properties in order to explain stuff is not at all unique to religion. It is often useful, and is a vital part of the scientific method. It is _not_ the problem with religion. The problems of religion lie elsewhere. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-unicorn-here-maybe-unicorns-are-invisible/632804/17 "2012-08-27T16:21:55Z")
> [@Colophon](#): > > I know of a chateau in France that has two real unicorn heads mounted on the [wall](http://www.lestroisgarcons.com/chateau/about.html). So there. that is so freaking cute, narwhal horns and horse heads as a taxidermy chimera. If I had the money I would _so_ do this for over our mantle … except I live in the US and the shitstorm from idiots whinging about the cute little dead horsie …:rolleyes: Also back in the 70s or 80s there was a book about cryptozology that claimed that all the cryptids on earth were actually aliens from an alternate dimension or another planet and arrived here by being brought on a ship or by dimension traveling. For the life of me I can not remember who wrote it, I got it out of the hospital library in 84 when I got stuck in there for an acute kidney infection. Although if someone mentioned it I would probably recognize it. I am thinking Ivan Sanderson for some reason but none of the titles on his wiki ring a bell. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-unicorn-here-maybe-unicorns-are-invisible/632804/18 "2012-08-27T16:48:44Z")
There was a multi episode arc of The Six Million Dollar Man that explained that Bigfoot is an alien robot that has a secret underground spaceship lair. Andre the Giant was the actor who portrayed Bigfoot in the dramatizations. For more on Bigfoot go to [bfro.org](http://bfro.org) those folks take it very seriously. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-unicorn-here-maybe-unicorns-are-invisible/632804/19 "2012-08-27T22:03:03Z")
> [@Colophon](#): > > I know of a chateau in France that has two real unicorn heads mounted on the [wall](http://www.lestroisgarcons.com/chateau/about.html). So there. Thanks to improved breeding techniques, we now have [quadricorns](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Vg5lUXblDw). ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-unicorn-here-maybe-unicorns-are-invisible/632804/20 "2012-08-27T22:44:16Z")
> [@Colophon](#): > > I know of a chateau in France that has two real unicorn heads mounted on the [wall](http://www.lestroisgarcons.com/chateau/about.html). So there. Is the chateau owned by Bigfoot? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-unicorn-here-maybe-unicorns-are-invisible/632804.md?page=2)