Posted on 03/27/2014 10:36:11 AM PDT by Theoria
Matt Knapp thinks that Bigfoot research is a mess right now.
“The facts are that in terms of progress, the Bigfoot research community has ultimately made none. We are no closer now to proving these creatures exist than we were 40 years ago,” Knapp told Boston.
Knapp blames the setbacks on the digital age, and the amount of misinformation being spread in the form of photos and videos online. That, and the fact that more people seem to be trying to cash in on what they claim are legitimate Bigfoot sightings. “Self admittedly, up to this point, we have not had anything worth presenting as real evidence of this creature’s existence. If we want scientists to get involved, we have to go by their standards, not our anecdotal ones,” he said.
To help filter out the phonies and fakes all trying to make a quick buck on something he believes in, Knapp is asking those vested in Bigfoot research to rely on technology built out of MIT to prove that the truth is out there.
Knapp, who runs a blog called “Bigfoot Crossroads,” a personal site with updates about all things Sasquatch, recently stumbled upon an invention created by students and researchers in the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab in Cambridge in 2012, called “Eulerian Video Magnification.”
EVM is essentially a software that allows users to break down videos to reveal things in them that are invisible to the naked eye.
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How may stories from all over the world over how many hundreds of years are there about dragons, vampires, zombies, ghosts, Martians, and Atlantis?
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Exactly. If there had been so many real sightings of this creature, surely there would be some hair or scat or something credible.
Bfl
Gee, I wonder what all the posts removed by the moderator were?
How many footprints have they left?
Solved long ago, a proven hoax.
I recall a quote from one in Sanderson's book, something like "Oh, is the white man finally getting around to that?"
Yeah thanks. That was kind of the point.
this could be a topic, but meanwhile, a marginally related sidebar:
Earliest Evidence of Gigantism-Like Disease Found in 3,800-Year-Old California Skeleton
http://westerndigs.org/earliest-evidence-of-gigantism-like-disease-found-in-3800-year-old-california-skeleton/
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