More Nessie
Dave Schuler
There is new video footage of the Loch Ness Monster, said to be among the finest footage caught to date. From CNN:
EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) -- Like tartan, bagpipes, and shortbread Scotland's Loch Ness Monster is as much an emblem as a tourist draw.
And now Nessie's back.
An amateur scientist has captured what Loch Ness Monster watchers say is among the finest footage ever taken of the elusive mythical creature reputed to swim beneath the waters of Scotland's most mysterious lake.
"I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw this jet black thing, about 45-feet (15 meters) long, moving fairly fast in the water," said Gordon Holmes, the 55-year-old a lab technician from Shipley, Yorkshire, who took the video this past Saturday.
He said it moved at about 6 mph (10 kph) and kept a fairly straight course.
"My initial thought is it could be a very big eel, they have serpent-like features and they may explain all the sightings in Loch Ness over the years."
Click though to take a look at the video. It's certainly interesting.
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I'm not impressed.
They're no point in even clicking unless you already "KNOW" that nessie lives, and can therefore point and say... "SEEEEEE THERE IT IS"... "What??? you can't see it??!"
Michael Yon's latest is up.
Nessie believers have an impressive array of things on their side. Not just a lot of eyewitness accountings and a few photos that can't be immediately dismissed as fakes, but also, there have been a few scientific studies involving sonar soundings and such which are hard to completely throw out the trash. Loch Ness is quite deep and, more important, filled with peat, which means its waters are extremely murky, way more than a normal ocean or lake. No matter how bright your lights or how good your equipment, you're not going to see very well down there. So it remains possible, if not likely, that there may be an undiscovered, barely surviving large species there that lives in the deep and only occasionally surfaces.
Also on the plus side, most Nessie lovers are pretty sure that it's an undiscovered species, not a true monster, and the cultishness around it is more tongue-in-cheek than anything.
I put Nessies as probability 1% of existing, and Bigfoots at less than a tenth that. Not that anyone asked my opinion, but...
Certainly no better than the many poor quality images shown over the last few decades. Just another very unimpressive rerun.
Of course we all lose our tempers now and then. Dean freely admits to being imperfect in this regard, which is why regulars to this establishment will generally be cut more slack than people who we don't know very well.
Still: behave like an adult, or go find somewhere else to play. Thanks.