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Alumnus composer Greg Dixon (PhD 2012) has been appointed Assistant Professor of Music and Sound Design at Digipen Institute of Technology (Redmond, WA) beginning in the fall of 2014.
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Recent Alumni News
Oregon State Parks selected Alumna composer Christina Rusnak (MA 2010) to compose a work for the new Cottonwood Canyon State Park. Canyon Voices explores the natural and cultural heritage of the John Day River basin. In August 2014, The Life of Ashes, exploring Mt. Adams through the lens of wildfire, was premiered in Hood River Oregon commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Wilderness Act. In September 2014, Rusnak heads up to North Cascades National Park as Artist in Residence. Three of her jazz pieces, arranged by UNT alumnus arranger Dave Richards (MM 2010), are being released in November 2014 on Parma Recordings.
"Epitaphs Unwritten," the second symphony by alumnus Kevin Walczyk (MM 1991; DMA 1994), was selected as the winner of the National Band Association's 2011 Wiliam D. Revelli Memorial Composition Contest. Dr. Walczyk's Songs of Paradise for concert band received an honorable mention in the 2011 College Band Directors National Association (CBDNA) Young Band Composition Contest.
Recent composition graduate Joshua Harris (PhD 2013) has accepted a tenure-track position in music at Sweet Briar College in Virginia, where he will be teaching theory, composition, and electronic music, as well as directing the school's music theater productions. He will begin his appointment in the fall of 2014.
Nine UNT-affiliated composers were selected to participate in the SEAMUS 2012 Conference at Lawrence University, 9-11 February 2012: student composers L. Scott Price and Greg Dixon; alumni composers Ethan Hayden, Chapman Welch, Mikel Kuehn, Daniel Zajicek, Eli Fieldsteel, and Elainie Lillios; and former faculty member Butch Rovan.
There Are Ghosts, a video work by alumnus composer Brian Hernandez (MA 2011), has been selected for inclusion at the 2012 Studio 300 BYTE Gallery International Exhibition on 28-29 September 2012 in Lexington, KY. This festival will present thirty-four works by composers and artists from the United States, Europe, South America, and India, selected from a pool of over 200 entries. There Are Ghosts has also been selected for performance at the 2012 Soundcrawl Festival: Art of the Future exhibition at the Brick Factory on 7 October 2012 in Nashville, TN.
Composition alumnus Stephen Anderson (MM 2000; DMA 2005) received a commission from the Barlow Endowment for a new piano concerto, composed for UNT faculty pianist Steven Harlos. Harlos premiered the work with the University of North Carolina Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Tonu Kalam, on 13 April 2010.
Alumnus Ricardo Gallo (BM 2002) remains active as a jazz composer and pianist. The Ricardo Gallo Cuarteto will be on a European tour (May-June 2012) and Gallo was featured in an article in the Colombian newspaper El Espectador. The interdisciplinary group La Quinta del Lobo premiered Gallo's work Vanitas Libellum in March 2012 at Universidad de Los Andes in Bogotá, with subsequent performances at the Festival de La Imagen (Manizales, Colombia) and at Teatro Britanico (Lima, Peru).
Piano works by current and former UNT composers were presented in two programs in Seoul, South Korea. "UNT in South Korea: Works for Piano" was sponsored by the Composers Forum and featured works by Daniel Bernardo, Da Jeong Choi, Joshua Harris, John Mallia, Andrew May, and James Worlton. The works were performed at Konkuk University (20 May 2010) and Baekseok Art University (27 May 2010) by UNT alumni pianists Hyangmee Kim, Min Kim, Eun Jun Oh, and Young Mi Seo.
Alumnus Ricardo Gallo (BM 2002) received a grant from the Colombian Ministry of Culture for an artist residency at Banff, Canada, in October-November 2012. During the residency, Gallo will complete a new work for the New York-based ensemble Yarn/Wire.
Alumnus Eli Fieldsteel (MM 2010) was awarded the ASCAP/SEAMUS Student Commission at the 2012 SEAMUS Conference for his master's thesis composition, Fractus I for trumpet and electronics.
The Canadian Electroacoustic Community, in collaboration with the Australasian Computer Music Association (ACMA) has announced the results of the 11th edition of JTTP (Jeu de Temps/Time Play). This year's winners included doctoral composer Mark Oliveiro in the Australasian section (for In Maluga) and 2010 Bourges resident artist Émilie Payeur in the Canadian section (for Triptyque). The 2010 edition of this project was open to young and/or emerging sound artists/composers from (or living in) either Canada, Australia, or New Zealand.
Systasis, an electroacoustic work by composition alumnus Dave Gedosh (DMA 2009) was selected as a finalist for the Fresh Minds Festival at Texas A & M University. Gedosh's Train Song was selected for the SEAMUS CD Vol 23 and was recently programmed at Last Friday Listening Room at UCSD by Tom Erbe, who is also programming the piece for a performance at Fort Mason in San Francisco as part of the Sweet Thunder Electro-Acoustic Music Festival in April 2014
Cantus Curatio VI (Healing Melody VI) for cello solo and EGO for bass trombone and piano by alumna composer Da Jeong Choi (PhD 2011) were presented at the 19th Sydney Biennale titled "On Reason and Emotion" (21 March - 9 June 2014 in Sydney, Australia), which featured the work of 51 artists from 32 countries.
Improbable Edges for oboe and trombone by alumnus composer Mark Scott (BM 2008) will be performed by fellow UNT alumni Ben and Kristin Polk at the 2011 International Double Reed Society conference at Arizona State University.
UNT alumnus and composer Michael Daugherty was nominated for a 2010 Grammy Award for Best Classical Contemporary Composition for his piece Deux ex Machina. The album was nominated for Best Orchestral Performance and Best Classical Album.
Dave Gedosh (DMA 2009) has been offered a tenure-track position at Rose State College (Oklahoma City, OK), where he will direct the audio recording program. Dr. Gedosh's work Train Songs was also recently selected for inclusion on the SEAMUS 2013 CD recording.
Who Am I, a musical by alumna composer Da Jeong Choi (PhD 2011) will be premiered by Southwestern Chamber Choral at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, TX on 20 November 2014.
Alumna composer Christina Rusnak continues to organize the sound art series titled "New Sounds for a New Space" at the Dallas Contemporary, with a program on 7 October 2010 at 7:00 pm. The program includes works by Rusnak, and faculty composers Cindy McTee and David Stout.
Faculty composer Panayiotis Kokoras and alumnus Joshua Harris (PhD 2013) were two of the nineteen composers selected for the juried recording project, SEAMUS Electroacoustic Miniatures 2013: Negative Space.
Alumnus Arthur Barrow (BM 1975) has been nominated for a Grammy Award for Singularity, an album featuring music by Robby Krieger of The Doors. Barrow co-wrote much of the music and co-produced the album with Krieger. Singularity was released in June 2010, and is a nominee in the Best Pop Instrumental Album category. The award ceremony is 13 February 2011.
On Top of Wheat Silos, a work by alumnus Ryan Manchester (BM 2008) was presented by the Chicago-based group Access Contemporary Music on 6 December 2010. A review of the event may be found on the Chicago Classical Review website.
Composition alumnus Cody Forrest (BM 2010) was a recipient of a 2014 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers Award. Cody was one of 27 composers selected out of nearly 630 submissions.
Terry Lee (MM 2009) received a commission from the Rose V. Johnson Flute Performance Studio in Federal Way (Seattle), WA for a new work for flute choir. San Juan Suite, a five movement composition for 2 piccolos, 8 flutes, alto flute, and bass flute, was premiered in Federal Way on 4 June 2010.
This year's International Computer Music Conference, which takes place in Perth, Australia on 11-17 August 2013, will include works by four UNT-affiliated composers: doctoral composer Mark Oliveiro (Sikinnis), alumni Yu-Chung Tseng (Fantasy) and Jing Wang (Brahmanda), and Bourges residency composer Diana Salazar (Capsicum Fever)
The Unspoken Geography: FEAR by alumna composer Christina Rusnak (MA 2010) was performed 2 March 2013 at the 12th Annual CSUF New Music Festival: Voice in the 21st Century. On 23 July 2013, Rusnak's Teklanika, a work created in Denali National Park and Yukon Charley National Preserve, was performed at the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival. Going Rogue for horn trio will be premiered on 18 October 2013, and Adriana for solo flute will be performed on 15 November 2013, both in Portland, Oregon. Ms. Rusnak recently was commissioned by Oregon State Parks to compose a work for a new state park, Cottonwood Canyon, to be premiered in the spring of 2014.
Alumnus composer Jay Alan Walls (PhD 2011) has been appointed Assistant Professor of Music at Harding University (Searcy, AR) beginning in the fall of 2014.
Etude for Orchestra, a work by alumna Hsiao-Lan Wang (DMA 2010), will receive a performance by the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra in July 2011, with the composer conducting. The Japan Federation of Composers sponsors the performance as part of the Asian Music Festival 2011.
Alumna composer Elainie Lillios (DMA 2000), an associate professor of composition at Bowling Green State University, has been awarded a commission from the prestigious Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM) in Paris. Lillios is only the second American composer in the history of the GRM to be awarded a commission. Lillios's new work will be premiered in October 2013 at La maison de Radio France in the Salle Olivier Messiaen, as a featured piece on the GRM's "Multiphonies" concert series.
Alumnus Kevin Walczyk (MM 1991; DMA 1994) has been named the recipient of the ninth Raymond and Beverly Sackler Music Composition Prize. The competition, organized by the University of Connecticut's School of Fine Arts, supports and promotes composers and the performance of their new musical works. An international award, the prize offers a substantial recognition including a commission of $25,000 to compose a work for a specified ensemble, public performances, and a recording. This year's prize is for a concerto for brass quintet (Atlantic Brass Quintet) and wind ensemble.
Alumnus composer Yo Goto (MM 2004) has been awarded the American Bandmasters Association 2011 Sousa/Ostwald Award for his work Songs for wind ensemble. Previous winners of this prestigious award include North Texas alumni Michael Daugherty (2007) and Fisher Tull (1970), and former faculty composer Martin Mailman (1983, 1989).
Jonathan Anderson (DMA 2010) has been appointed Assistant Professor of Composition at Wayne State University beginning Fall 2011, after having served as Dance Media/Production Coordinator at the university in recent years.
Alumnus Jon Anderson's electroacoustic work for fixed media, dash.em, was selected for performance at the regional Society of Composers Inc. Conference hosted by Clarke University. His work for fixed media and video luft am morgen, was selected for performance at the 2013 New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival at the Graduate Center at CUNY. Both works were also invited for performance at the 2013 Electronic Music Midwest Mini-Festival, part of the New Sounds Festival 2013 hosted by Western Michigan University.
The following UNT composers participated in the SEAMUS 2010 Conference at St. Cloud State University, 8-10 April 2010: student composers Greg Dixon and Da Jeong Choi; faculty members David Bithell, Andrew May, Jon Christopher Nelson, and Elizabeth McNutt; emeritus faculty composer Larry Austin; and alumni composers Elainie Lillios and Chapman Welch.
Dream of a Thousand Keys, the dissertation composition by alumna Da Jeong Choi (PhD 2011), was premiered on 8 March 2012 by the Joven Orquesta Provincial de Málaga as part of the International Women's Day celebration in Spain. The performance was featured on Canal Sur TV.
DMA alumnus James Worlton (DMA 2003) has accepted a position as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Texas Woman's University (Denton, TX), where he will be teaching Theory and Arranging beginning in the fall of 2014.
There Are Ghosts, a video work by alumnus composer Brian Hernandez (MA 2011), has been selected for performance at the international film and video festival, CINESONIKA, which takes place 18-19 February 2012 in British Columbia, Canada. In addition to the performance, all accepted works will be eligible for international distribution on DVD, public exhibition, museum curatorial, video on demand, and touring festival.
Alumna composer Sarah Summar was profiled in the recent UNT INhouse web magazine (13 December 2012).
The following UNT composers had their works presented at the 2011 International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) at the University of Huddersfield, England (31 July - 5 August 2011): doctoral student Dan Tramte; alumni Da Jeong Choi, Mikel Kuehn, Elainie Lillios, and Yu-Chung Tseng; and former faculty John Mallia.
Alumnus Chapman Welch's article "Programming Machines and People: Techniques for Live Improvisation with Electronics" will be published in The Leonardo Music Journal 20.
The following North Texas composers will be participating in Electronic Music Midwest at Kansas City Kansas Community College (30 September - 1 October 2011): students Jonathan Jackson, Greg Dixon, and Dan Tramte; and alumnae Da Jeong Choi and Elainie Lillios.
Diversions, a four movement work for tuba and piano by Kendall Prinz (MM 1999), received its world premiere on 20 May 2011 at the Southwest Regional Tuba/Euphonium Conference, which was held at Northern Arizona University. The work was premiered by Justin Lerma, tubist with the U.S. Navy Band in San Diego, CA.
UNT composition alumna Hsiao-Lan Wang (DMA 2010) received a commission from the Taiwan Symphony Orchestra to compose a piano trio titled Blue Mirror, Green Mirror, Red Mirror. The work is scheduled to be performed by players of the TSO in August 2011, and will be published and subsequently released on CD.
Alumna composer Michelle Alonso (BM 2011) has been awarded a Helene Wurlitzer Foundation Residency Fellowship for the summer of 2012. The fellowship provides three months of free housing for artists to work at the Foundation, located in Taos, New Mexico.
Faculty composer Panayiotis Kokoras received the first prize award in the 7th Destellos International Competition of Electroacoustic Music 2014 in Argentina, for his work Jet for soprano recorder and electronics. Alumna Elainie Lillios (DMA 2000) received second prize in the same competition for her work The Rush of the Brook Stills the Mind for percussion and electronics. The Destellos Prix 2014 jury was composed of: Gilles Gobeil (Canada), Eric Chasalow (EU), Gregorio Jiménez (Spain), Federico Schumacher (Chile) and chaired by Elsa Justel.
Alumnus composer Chaz Underriner (BA 2010) received a commission as the winner of the annual composition competition by the Santa Clarita Master Chorale for the piece A Mountain in Labor for choir, narrator and piano. The work was premiered in June 2011 at the College of the Canyons Performing Arts Center (Santa Clarita, CA).
Eleven UNT-affiliated composers were selected to participate in the SEAMUS 2014 Conference at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT, 27-29 March 2014: faculty composer Jon Nelson; student composers Stephen Lucas, Mark Oliveiro, Clay Allen, and Jen Hill; alumni composers Paul Thomas, Greg Dixon, Eli Fieldsteel, Chapman Welch, and Peter McCulloch; and former faculty composer Butch Rovan.
Chaz Underriner (BA 2010) has performed as a guitarist at REDCAT in Los Angeles at the Sofia Gubaidulina Festival (May 2011), at the Wild Beast concert hall at California Institute of the Arts as a soloist with the Dogstar Orchestra performing Michael Pisaro's here (1) (July 2011), and as a soloist at the Laboratorium 2011 Festival in Antwerp, Beligum performing Mark Applebaum's DNA (March 2011).
Alumna composer Hsiao-Lan Wang (DMA 2010) has recently received three commissions for new works: Adoration for piano four-hands will be premiered in Houston on 17 November 2012; Before Sunrise for vibraphone and marimba, and will be premiered on 4 December 2012 at the National Recital Hall in Taipei, performed by percussionists Ling Sun and Kunihiko Komori; and Currents of Inevitable Convergence for chamber orchestra and computer music will be premiered in 2013 by the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra.
Err Prenne, a video work by alumnus composer Brian Hernandez (MA 2011) has been selected for inclusion at the 2012 International WOCMAT (International Workshop on Computer Music and Audio Technology) conference, which takes place on 30 November and 1 December at the National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan, Republic of China. The conference includes guest speakers John Chowning, Simon Emmerson, Richard Dudas, among others, as well as sound installations and music and technology exhibitions.
Every Tear from Their Eyes for choir and large ensemble by alumna composer Da Jeong Choi (PhD 2011) was broadcast on C Channel (TV) for the 100th day of remembrance of the South Korean Ferry Tragedy on 24 July 2014 and included in Kukmin ilbo (Korean newspaper) on 29 July 2014. This work will be performed by Banana Choir (from India) throughout South Korea in November-December 2014.
Doctoral composers Da Jeong Choi and Greg Dixon, and alumnus Chapman Welch, were invited as guest artists to New Music Focus Week 2010 at the State University of New York, Oneonta (28 March - 1 April 2010). In addition to performances of their works by percussionist Julie Licata, Choi also presented three lectures at the festival.
This year's International Computer Music Conference, which takes place in Ljubljana, Slovenia on 9-14 September 2012, will include works by several UNT composers. In addition to being presented at the conference, works by faculty members Jon Christopher Nelson (Turbulent Blue) and Panayiotis Kokoras (Construct Synthesis) were selected by an international jury from among 600 entries for inclusion on the conference CD. Alumni composers Yu-Chung Tseng, Elainie Lillios, Jon Anderson, and Mikel Kuehn will also have works presented at the conference.
Fourteen UNT-affiliated composers have been selected to participate in the SEAMUS 2011 Conference at the University of Miami, 20-22 January 2011: student composers Da Jeong Choi, Greg Dixon, Joshua Harris, Brian Hernandez, Mark Oliveiro, L. Scott Price, and Dan Tramte; alumni composers Elainie Lillios, Stephen Lucas, Ilya Rostovtsev, Kohsuke Tajima, Rodney Waschka, and Chapman Welch; and former faculty member Butch Rovan.
Alumna composer Christina Rusnak has been selected as Composer-in-Residence at Homestead National Monument in spring 2012 to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Homestead Act. The residency will provide three weeks of housing at the monument, located near Beatrice Nebraska.
UNT composition alumnus Mark Scott (BM '08) won first prize in the 2010 Eastern Trombone Workshop Composition Competition for his work Quartet Stories. In addition to a cash prize, the winning composition was performed by the Curtis Institute Trombone Quartet in a recital during the workshop.
In Spring 2011, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra called on alumnus Robert Pound (BM, '92) as both conductor and composer, inviting him to conduct the ASO and commissioning him to compose a fanfare in honor of Music Director Robert Spano's tenth anniversary with the orchestra. Other recent premieres include his work for cello and piano, goes around, composed for the Murasaki Duo and perfomed by the duo on their Spring 2013 tour. Pound's work exhortation, a setting of texts for soprano and string trio inspired by Rainer Maria Rilke's letters, was premiered by soprano Juliana Burdick at the Peabody Conservatory in May 2013.
Works by the following UNT composers were selected for performance at the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) in New York City and Stony Brook, NY on 1-5 June 2010: student composer Da Jeong Choi (Reflection in the Glass); emeritus faculty composer Larry Austin (Le flutes de Pan, homage a Debussy); alumna composer Elainie Lillios (Nostalgiac Visions); and past CEMI resident composer Diana Simpson-Salazar (Spindle Song).
The first movement of Ilya Y. Rostovtsev's master's thesis composition Understatements was selected for presentation in the Pixilerations festival at Brown University in Rhode Island (October 2010) and the sfSound-curated San Francisco Tape Music Festival (January 2011).
Just After The Rain, a work by faculty composer Jon Christopher Nelson, is one of nine works selected by an international jury for Sonic Screens 2011. The work will be performed at O' in Milan, Italy on 26 November 2011. One of the other selected works was Spindlesong by 2007 Bourges/CEMI resident Diana Salazar (Simpson).
Composition alumnus Kendall Prinz (MM 1999), has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Low Brass & Instrumental Music Education at Northwest Missouri State University, beginning in the fall 2012.
Jamesy Boy, a film with an original soundtrack by alumnus Jermaine Stegall (MM 2003), opens in select theaters nationwide 17 January 2014. Jermaine's other recent credits include the Emmy-winning TV series documentary Ten Days That Unexpectedly Changed America (Shay's Rebellion: America's First Civil War), and additional music for Scream 4 (directed by Wes Craven), An American Carol (directed by David Zucker), CW Television Network's Supernatural, and the Nickelodeon TV movie The Last Day of Summer.
The Atlantic Coast Conference Band Directors' Association (ACCBDA) has named UNT alumnus Eli Fieldsteel (MM 2010) as the sole recipient of the 2014 James E. Croft Grant for Young and Emerging Composers. The twelve schools that comprise the ACCBDA will hold exclusive performance rights through 2015.
Eleven UNT-affiliated composers were selected to participate in the SEAMUS 2013 Conference at McNally Smith College in St. Paul, MN, 18-20 April 2013: faculty composers Panayiotis Kokoras and Jon Christopher Nelson; doctoral composer Mark Oliveiro; alumni composers Jon Anderson, Greg Dixon, Eli Fieldsteel, Dave Gedosh, Elainie Lillios, and L. Scott Price; and former faculty composer Butch Rovan. Also participating in the conference was faculty flutist Elizabeth McNutt.


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Looks like they've put atleast as much into the Narnia production as LOTR. Hopefully I won't be disappointed.
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If the question was which New York lake would be the first to experience the joy of blue-green algae this summer, then the answer is Oneida Lake.
The Utica Observer-Dispatch newspaper reported Monday that two public beaches at the popular lake had been closed since Thursday because of the suspected presence of cyanobacteria, aka blue-green algae. Though the presence of cyanobacteria hadn't been verified when the story was done, authorities know what the stuff looks like and were pretty sure that's what it was.
Cyanobacteria, as we've reported numerous times, sometimes releases toxins that can be dangerous to humans and animals. Two dogs were killed last year after swimming in tainted New York lakes or ponds and then licking themselves dry, an expert told me recently. Numerous humans were sickened in Ohio last summer, including one man who was hospitalized for days with neurological deficits after going in the water to rescue his stricken canine, which died.


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Published August 6, 2013
NASA's one-ton Curiosity rover celebrates its first anniversary on Mars this week.
In just one Earth-year of its scheduled two-year mission, the roving geochemistry lab has helped assess the red planet's habitability, while serving as a guide for potential future missions. (See: "Mars Gets Its Close-Up.")
Since its harrowing touchdown on Mars a year ago in Gale crater on August 5, 2012, PDT (August 6, 2012, EDT), Curiosity has been one busy explorer—returning more than 190 gigabits of data and collecting and analyzing samples from two rocks over terrain roughly a mile (1.6 kilometers) in size.
Hundreds of scientists and engineers have been working on the billion-dollar mission; among them is Ralf Gellert, the lead scientist for the X-ray chemical sensor aboard Curiosity. (Related: "Curiosity Finds Evidence for a Habitable Ancient Mars.")
"Working on a Mars rover is very different from doing science experiments in the lab on Earth," he said. "[We've been] coping with all the data and trying to optimize and streamline operations."
Where the Lander Landed
Curiosity has spent nearly six months at a region known as Yellowknife Bay. The area's rocky outcrops have provided opportunities for drilling, sampling, and analyzing the chemistry of the powdered samples taken from the Mars surface. While the rover is not equipped to detect any signs of life itself, it has offered up clear evidence of a past environment suitable to support microbial life. (Watch video of Curiosity's "Seven Minutes of Terror.")
"None of us dared to dream of such a smooth landing and incredible performance from our scientific payload," said Ashwin Vasavada, deputy project scientist for the rover mission. "The landing site also turned out to be much richer scientifically than we had expected."
The rover is currently in the midst of a year-long journey toward the mission's primary target—the base of Mount Sharp, some five miles (eight kilometers) away.
Mount Sharp is a three-mile-high (five-kilometer-high) mountain rising up from the floor of the crater. It caught the eye of Mars researchers years ago, thanks to close-up photos taken by orbiting spacecraft. Curiosity will now investigate its exposed lower layers, which appear to be sedimentary and may have formed under wet conditions.
"Even from a few miles away, it is a gorgeous and huge mountain, with canyons and buttes carved by wind and water. It's so tantalizingly Earthlike; we can't wait to get there," said Vasavada. (Watch video of the Mars rover Curiosity.)
Here now is a rundown of the top five discoveries in the Curiosity's first year on Mars.
1. Discovery of an ancient, habitable environment. At Yellowknife Bay, the rover found evidence that an intermittent lake was once present, with fresh water and other chemical ingredients that life requires.
The finding of clay minerals, says Gellert, means almost neutral—neither acidic nor basic—water flowed in the area at some point in Martian history.
"[A big surprise] was to find clays near the landing site in an area that doesn't show signs of clay minerals from orbit," said Gellert.
2. Evidence of an ancient streambed. Curiosity found a rock called a conglomerate—made up of many rounded, small pebbles cemented together. This type of rock forms on Earth when water flows about knee deep.
"These show that for an extended time a stream must have been flowing to form these features," said Gellert. (Related: "Meet One of Mars Rover Curiosity's Earthbound Twins.")
3. Radiation measurements to aid human exploration. Curiosity measured the natural cosmic and solar radiation on its journey from Earth to Mars.
"By measuring the radiation from within a spacecraft capsule, Curiosity was in the same environment that human explorers to Mars will face," said Vasavada.
Based on some of the initial findings from the rover's instruments, it turns out that the radiation arriving from both interstellar space and the sun will pose a significant challenge for future Mars astronauts. In just the nine-month voyage to the red planet, Curiosity absorbed more radiation than NASA astronauts are allowed to be exposed to over their entire career. (Related: "Psychological Challenges of Manned Mission to Mars.")
4. Lack of methane in Mars' atmosphere. In the last few years, both Earth-based telescopes and Mars orbiters have seemed to detect methane on Mars—a gas that could be a result of present-day biological activity or signify other non-biological processes.
But Curiosity's experiments have so far detected very little methane within Gale crater—in fact, some 600 times less than the amount in Earth's atmosphere.
So while it appears that the conditions on ancient Mars may have been conducive to life at one point, today's environment may just be too harsh for life to exist.
5. Diversity of rocks in Gale crater. Before even getting to the ultimate destination of Mount Sharp, scientists were surprised that Curiosity found diverse types of rocks—from volcanic to mudstones to rocks with cracks filled with mineral veins. Each of these rock types tell the story of a different environment at some point in Mars' past.
Scientists expect this rich diversity to increase even more when Curiosity gets to the multilayered Mount Sharp.
"With one habitable environment in the bag, our job becomes to place it in the context of the other geology within Gale crater in order to understand where it fits into the overall evolution of this region of Mars, and maybe even the planet as a whole," said Vasavad.
"Ultimately, we'd love to make a fundamental contribution to the understanding of how Mars' climate changed dramatically in its early history."
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Dear Philip Noe,
Basic Science done by NASA discovered global warming. You could pay for NASA for more than a thousand years with what congress gave the banks in the big bail out. Can't you find something, say a war, that would do a lot more good, than picking on science?
Dear Philip Noe,
Basic Science done by NASA discovered global warming. You could pay for NASA for more than a thousand years with what congress gave the banks in the big bail out. Can't you find something, say a war, that would do a lot more good, than picking on science?
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Congratulations NASA <3
Curiosity's exploration has two big benefits for people on earth: 1. the data tell us about another planet--what it was and what it is now, which expands our understanding of the solar system. 2. the data analysis tells us more about our own planet and its possible future. This second benefit is priceless and vital to the success and survival of generations to come.
we may even find out that it is uninhabitable and that we need not go there nor can we. whatever we do find out about this planet, it will not be to waste.
Congratulations NASA!!! There is an unimaninable amount of planning, preparation, testing and implementation that must have gone into the project. The knowledge gained is valuable for us today and for tomorrow. Keep reaching for the stars!!!
The billions spent searching for life elsewhere may be better spent saving life here, on the only habitable planet we know of. We are deteriorating our biosphere with carbon emissions, deforestation, and over-population. We need to change the ways we generate and use energy or the only biosphere we know of will continue to be degrade. Contact your reps in Congress and insist they work harder to address these problems. If they drag their feet, help remove them in the next election cycle. Without a healthy habitat future generations will most certainly suffer.
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Bigfoot is cool and all but i recently found a new show that gets away from all the Bigfoot hype and looks into new creatures it is called Monsters Underground
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Does Bigfoot exist? What about the Loch Ness monster? Or the Yeti? Or Mokele Mbembe, the Congo dinosaur?
There's ample circumstantial evidence for all these creatures: eyewitness accounts, blurry photographs, mysterious footprints. For many cryptozoologists—the people who search for legendary animals—that evidence is enough to confirm a monster's existence.
But it will take more than shadowy sightings to convince Daniel Loxton and Donald R. Prothero that Bigfoot or any of the other monsters are real. What Loxton and Prothero want is scientific evidence. In their new book, Abominable Science! Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids, they analyze the history of mythic beasts and the clues to their existence.
Loxton and Prothero come at cryptozoology from different directions. Loxton, a staff writer for Skeptic magazine, was an ardent believer in monsters as a kid, having spotted a Bigfoot print in the woods and a pterodactyl winging over his backyard. (Now, he suspects the print was a prank and the pterodactyl was a great blue heron.) Prothero is a paleontologist, who is also trained in biology and geology. He has written over 250 scientific papers and 28 books, including five textbooks on geology.
National Geographic's Rachel Hartigan Shea spoke with the two authors about bringing skepticism and science to the study of cryptids.
First of all, what is a cryptid?
DP: A cryptid is any animal that has never been described by science, usually something very unusual along the lines of a Loch Ness monster or Bigfoot, something that stretches the limits of what is scientifically plausible.
DL: It's based on the word cryptozoology, which means hidden life or animals. It implies a creature that's been recorded through folklore, something that we have reason to suspect exists.
What can science tell us about cryptids?
DP: The first thing, of course, is that a cryptid can't be a single animal. If there's one of them, there's got to be many of them. You can talk about their population density, the size of range they should have based on their estimated body size. All of that tends to weigh against them being real because they should have had huge ranges, and they should have been spotted a long time ago if they really did exist. And then there's other aspects, like geology, something you never hear the cryptozoologists mention. All the lake monsters, not just Loch Ness but the ones here in North America, in Lake Champlain and Lake George, were all under a mile of ice 20,000 years ago. The cryptozoologists never asked the question, "Well, how did the monster get in the lake if the lake was completely under ice, the lakes are all landlocked, and there's no way for a marine creature to get there at all?" Those are all things that are not news to geologists, they're not news to biologists, but they're apparently news to cryptozoologists.
All the cryptids that you discuss in the book – Bigfoot, the Yeti, the Loch Ness Monster, Mokele Mbembe – are very similar to things that exist or existed in the past: bears, primates, plesiosaurs, sauropods. Why the similarity?
DL: In some cases I think it's because they are the same. Bears are often associated with ogres or wildmen in folklore because they're pretty humanlike. Once that folklore is underway, you have the opportunity for people to make these misidentification errors where they see a bear and think it might be a bigfoot. (Read a National Geographic magazine story about Europe's wildmen.)
DP: These animals look like something familiar to us because the myths grow around whatever we've already just seen. Daniel pointed out in the book that the Mokele Mbembe myth emerged right about the time that large sauropod skeletons were first mounted in New York City and illustrated by people like Charles R. Knight. Then lo and behold, someone starts reporting one in the Congo, where it doesn't have any history prior to that.
So Mokele Mbembe definitely does not exist?
DP: We have an excellent fossil record of Africa. We have very great confidence that there have been no dinosaurs around in the last 65 million years because we have bones of large animals from Africa of all kinds but they're all mammals. Same goes for plesiosaurs. Worldwide, there are no bones of plesiosaurs in any marine deposit after about 70 million years ago. There are plenty of places where they should show up if they actually lived, but they don't. That to me is not just absence of evidence, that's very strong evidence that they don't exist.
That sentence -- the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence – occurs a lot in the book.
DL: It's a really good thing for people to keep in mind, but it's not always true. If the claim that you are advancing implies some kind of evidence, then failing to find that kind of evidence is evidence that that thing does not exist. Take, for example, the idea that there might be plesiosaurs in Loch Ness. Well, plesiosaurs had bones. That implies that there should be bones littering the loch. Well, they've dredged the loch to see if there are any monster bones down there, any plesiosaur bones, and there aren't. That goes to the truth of the claim.
Do you ever encounter people who say, "No, I saw it!"
DL: Oh yeah. I have a lot of sympathy for that. If you have the experience of seeing something with your own eyes, it's natural that that should trump my "talking head" skepticism and Don's arguments about why that's probably not so. But there's only so much I can do with your personal experience that I did not share. I accept that it's compelling to you, but it cannot be as compelling to me.
DP: By and large, all of the evidence for these really strange cryptids is from eyewitness testimony. People are fooled by their senses, especially sight, because we are notoriously bad witnesses. One of the sightings of the Yeti, or the abominable snowman, turns out to be a rock outcrop. The guy saw it move the first time and then he had to leave. He came back finally a year later--after his sighting had been all over the media--and it turns out that it was just a rock he was shooting pictures of.
What do you think the connection is between people believing in cryptids and the level of scientific literacy among the general public?
DP: Lately cryptozoology has been connected to creationism in a lot of ways. People who actively search for Loch Ness monsters or Mokele Mbembe do it entirely as creationist ministers. They think that if they found a dinosaur in the Congo it would overturn all of evolution. It wouldn't. It would just be a late-occurring dinosaur, but that's their mistaken notion of evolution.
Is there any one cryptid that you wish was real?
DL: All of them.
DP: I'm a paleontologist. I'd love to have Mokele Mbembe and a plesiosaur!
This interview has been edited and condensed.
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I want to say something important. I am presenting this evidence for you to review based on 300 nights in the woods over the past 5 years and 23 years of trying to figure out and learn about Bigfoot. At the end of the day, its your call whether you believe it or not. It will not change in any way what I know already and what I know is inevitable for the rest of you. 100 years from now, Bigfoot will be old news.
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Whose massive hand print with the unknown oval pad on the palm was left on my truck at 04 am in the rain on a remote logging road near Steamboat Springs, Co. Who does this hand print belong too? Its not human or per the chart a known large primate. The dermal ridges flow down the hand like yours, except one difference. They are 1/16" of an inch apart. When you answer these two questions for me, then we are talking. I know who they belong too. You will too hopefully soon.
Go down the page from the S and Q in our name. Look to the left of the diagonal Aspen tree. The bigger question is whose face is that with two round black eyes and a pig like snout staring at you from the Colorado woods. A defense contractor employee tried to debunk this photo. The result was the cleaned up second white photo. He thinks its real. He is a friend now. I know its real too.
Some kids thought/ dreamed of Santa, the tooth fairy, Easter Bunny....Me? Bigfoot.....Then....we grow up.
Better add God to the list. When something doesn't exist how could you have evidence of it's non-existence? That wouldn't make sense. Absence of evidence of its existence is proof enough that its all just a fairy tale.
Bigfoot is a real entity. What DP says about all of us cryptid hunters being Christian creationists is a load of crap and an unscientific generalization. I AM a Christian but I couldn't care less about proving or disproving evolution.
I love reading this stuff. Scientists talking about Bigfoot as not being real with no real evidence to support that contention. Not very scientific. The issue is very few if any scientists are spending any time or money looking for them out of fear of the topic. I love science, always have, but science is tethered to antiquated views of the world and tenure. All the great explorers appear to be long gone. Yet, I am proceeding quite successfully without help. I can't think of a recent serious University study, a Government study, or a Grant to try and prove or disprove this person of the forest off the top of my head. Almost all are privately funded like my search for the truth. By the way, I have an e-mail from the few scientists that are looking saying my evidence matches their 6 year study of this elusive person. You are not going to find what your not looking for. When science tells me what those 1/16" dermal ridges on my giant hand print are I will listen to that argument. The hand print was left on my truck at 04 am from the Colorado forest. Everyone seems to be afraid to speculate or even say what they think it is or where it should fall in relationship to humans and primates. Why? By the way, I have hair samples now in Idaho with a scientist, in Australia, and at Oxford University awaiting testing for DNA from a human geneticist. At least some of us are trying to get to the truth. I have news for all of you, my findings and massive pile of evidence indicate Bigfoot is very real and living in a forest near you. We had a saying I learned in sports at a young age that applies here, " You never worry about getting beat by a guy on the bench." It rings very true here. Thanks, Mike J-Founder-Sasquatch Investigations of the Rockies
There will always be myths about monsters, but I hope tax dollars are never used to "study" them. My Chupacabra agrees with this comment.
To start, I agree that Nessie is incredibly unlikely. That lake is big, but not nearly big enough to hide a full size plesiosaur, no matter how murky the water. The fact that the lake is land-locked is pretty compelling as well.
However, I wonder what these scientists' response would have been to questions about the recently discovered proof of the myths surrounding Sea Monsters (via the Collossul Squid, some 50ft long). That's not far off from the size of a plesiosaur, and it had the whole deep ocean to hide in for a very long time. I'm convinced Nessie isn't real, but there are definitely very large undiscovered animals still on Earth.
Or how about the recent discoveries (last 5-10 years) of new species of primates, even up to nearly gorilla size? Sure, Bigfoot might not be real, but I have a really hard time definitively saying it is so scientifically unlikely as to be considered impossible, like I can with Nessie. And Bigfoot isn't the smallest of the cryptids, either. There have been tons of smaller animals discovered in recent times as well. Scientists are still making new discoveries of many more creatures than just new kinds of bacteria or diseases; we haven't found everything on land yet, either.
Finally, I have to disagree regarding their statement that absence of fossils is, in fact, proof of absence. Look up "Living Fossils". The list is quite long. These creatures are very clear proof that scientists repeatedly find that the fossil record is incredibly unreliable. My favorite of these is the Coelocanth, which doesn't show up for the last 65 million years, but is still alive today. A set of bones (or other tough body parts, like shells) needs a very particular and peculiar set of circumstances to become a fossil; it's actually quite unusual, so there are enormous gaps in the fossil records.
The long list of Living Fossils is proof enough that the fossil record can't be relied upon for scientific evidence of anything but what can actually be found there. Lack of fossils is not proof of anything but the incompleteness and unreliability of the fossil record itself. We can say "this creature is in the fossil records here, but not here," but we can't say for sure that it didn't live at all before that time, or after.
Around my house I like to say that just because a scientist hasn't seen it yet, that doesn't mean it can't exist. Sure, the supposed evidence is untrustworthy until multiple scientists can study it and verify its existence, but lack of that evidence is not evidence that the creature doesn't exist. Those recently discovered species of small to large animals did plenty of existing on this Earth for a long time before any scientists could get around to proving their existence.
Interesting - the absence of evidence does not prove a claim is false or true, it just provides reasonable doubt to the veracity of that claim, unless there is presentation of refuting evidence.
Pure science keeps all options opened, and taking science as a theology unto itself can be blinding. The whole creation vs. evolution debate, and the infantile name-calling invested into that debate denies that there is anything we do not know, or perhaps, cannot know.
Yet, for all our wisdom, we have only just begun unraveling the human genome, and the underlying structures therein, the fabric of space and time is still very much a wonder, new or previously lost species discovered, human abilities outside our understanding of mechanism, and how and why we love, all elude us. New evidence is constantly uncovered, claims supported and refuted, and if we keep open minds, we can adapt and learn.
Also, be sure when attacking those who believe in Creation, be sure to then attack all such beliefs; it is not limited to Christianity, lest the Taliban would not have destroyed irreplaceable Hindu statues as graven idols despised by the God of Ibrahim/Abram/Abraham, for example. To attack one faith among many shows a bias, which damages the credibility of your claims.
There are indeed many scientific arguments that make the physical existence of most of these mythical beings seem quite improbable. But this only proves that maybe we have to look for other explanations of their nature. All these arguments are totally meaningless if these beings, or their experience, are 'paranormal' (-i.e. ''phenomena outside of science's current ability to explain or measure'').
This is a bunch of BS. I just scanned over it, just something thrown together for somebody with nothing to do to read. With ALL of the Photographing devices out there, every body carries a camera every day now, yet NO ONE EVER gets a clear picture of a "Extra-Terrestrial" being or Vehicle or one of these Freak "animals". PT Barnum was correct.
That "bigfoot" foot cast really looks fake. "Bigfoot" would not likely have neatly trimmed toenails like Roger Patterson's, but big long curved toenails that would show up in the casting.
That bigfoot footprint cast sure looks fake. Bigfoot would not likely have neatly trimmed toenails, but big old curved toenails that would show in the cast.
If you're worried about creation vs evolution, try this. It's a presentation I gave (public lecture). http://www.slideshare.net/johnostrowick/does-evolution-really-threaten-religion
"Creationists" are a completely different breed of Christian when it comes to their beliefs. They believe that the earth and universe were created in literal 6 day, 24hr. periods. Which of course is not rational as it is a proven fact that the universe's creation, as well as the earth's had to have taken hundreds of not thousands of billions of years. A designed earth and universe would be painstakingly crafted in preparation for physical life, thus the Goldilock zones our earth, solar system, and galaxy inhabit. Each one in perfect position to sustain life. At least that is what a reasoning, thinking Christian believes. So to wrap it up, you may believe in creation but that doesn't make you a"Creatonist
I live in Alberta Canada, and we have had several sightings in this province. I think it was the explorer David LIvingstone wrote back to Europe that he had discovered man like creatures and most Europeans mocked him. These creatures would soon come to be known as gorillas. My problem is why has no one found any skeletal remains. They always talk and show pictures of the big foot, but what of the small offspring? Gorillas are now easily sighted but how is it that big foot still seem to evade us? I am not saying that this creature does not exist, but something just doesn't add up here. Maybe they bury their dead? Yet not even one has been say killed by a bear. The pictures or reporting make it sound like they wonder around like a lone wolf. Even gorillas are sociable animals. These creatures must have some social system. I am sceptical.
Try to remember how long "scientists" said that rocks falling from the sky was bunk. Even up to 1908 scientists said that the Wright Bros. were con artists. A real scientist will say that BigFoot is an open question because I real scientist knows that negatives cannot be proven. Alfred Wegener was abusively laughed at when in 1915 he said that the continents drifted, and this laughter continued for 50 years. Do not worship at the Altar of Science. Do the scientific method and learn a little philosophy and humility? Scientists don't know everything.
Creationist ministers? There's few things as smug as someone calling christians ignorant. That line was a turn off, won't be checking out the book. The study of dinosaurs living or dead is imagination play time with no technological benifits for mankind. Too bad so many brilliant thinkers are wasting their brain power on wheather dinosaurs were purple or green instead of curing disease.
@Michael Johnson Handprint? I see a shape that is vaguely hand-like if you squint. As for dermal ridges, yes, I guess you could say those ripples kind of look like that. It's still very smudgy and looks more like caked-on dirt running in the rain, to me.
Still not seeing what I can accept as evidence of bigfoot.
@Michael Johnson I looked at that photo for ten minutes straight and still can't see a face. The only thing that looks remotely humanoid is the supposed toe.
@Michael Johnson I put a fresh pizza on my back doorstep last night. My wildlife camera actually recorded a bigfoot coming over, eating the whole pizza and then belching. It was awesome. You are so right, Michael. Bigfoot totally exists. I am glad I'm not the only believer out there. While he was distracted with the pizza, I ran out with an electric razor and shaved some fur off its a$$. How can I send you a specimen for DNA analysis? This is the proof we've been waiting for! We'll finally show those stupid scientists how stupid they really are! While those idiots are in a lab coming up with cures for dumb things like cancer and HIV, we are out doing what really matters, finding animals that most rational people don't believe in. Thanks again MIchael!
@Michael Johnson I'd love for it to be true, but a critical question remains: where are the bones? If there is one, there is a population that has been there for hundreds of thousands of years. There must be remains. Until someone trots some out, or a live specimen, there is no proof at all.
@Fred Hofstetter Technically, pure science closes many options. For instance, I could claim that every second Sunday of the month wings spring from my back and blue horns grow on my forehead and little insects crawl from little pustules on my legs that appear on that day—and just because I don't let any scientists examine me on a second Sunday of a month does not mean they need to keep all options open. Hey, I could be telling the truth, right? Right?
Their claim is that, based upon all the science they actually know, an existing cryptid of a certain size would leave traces upon the environment and/or require certain environmental factors to continue to survive. No animal is 100% solitary; there would be offspring, mates, perhaps herds and so forth. These would require a certain amount of living space, have a certain effect upon the environment, and so forth. The lack of any evidence of such effects or group effects upon the environment—the lack of a required environment that could sustain such a population—is a very good sign that those cryptids do not exist.
Now, perhaps scientists think that any human who can sprout wings and horns and insect-spewing pustules once a month would have some sort of genetic marker or other features that should be visible on any other day...because typically, humans don't undergo such transformations. Putting all this together, and finding no evidence whatsoever of the capability of sprouting such physical features, they would be justified in saying, "Nope, he's a liar!" or, kindly, "He's mistaken."
@Fred Hofstetter Most Christians are not evangelical fundamentalists and fully understand science. However, evangelicals have a lot of power in government and are quite vocal so that's the voice people think is the voice of Christianity. Many of us Modern Christians have understood the principles of Evolution while still in grade school and have a long interest in comparative religion in a position of open mindedness.
@Jonathan Bright That merely moves the goal posts, by saying that "well, these creatures are beyond the reach of science." If they are physical animals living on Earth, then they are not beyond the reach of science. If they do not live on Earth, then what are you even talking about?
@John Ostrowick Well done, but slide "Does Evolution threaten Religion -2" states that the Bible is 98.5% correct and 1.5% incorrect. You also state that only 1.5% of the bible was not written by god. Each of these are false statements and are based on opinion and conjecture.
@14 R3A50N I am a Christian, and many Christians might not be aware of this scripture. 2 Peter 3:8 be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. So much for the first 6 days being 24 hr. periods. Think about it.
@Shane C. I don't want to sound crazy Shane but my experience OUT in the woods I have seen a bigfoot & close by I saw a real indian but he was almost transparent.Bigfoots have never hurt a human,I think because they pop up in the forest as real for awhile but there actually a spirit or some type of indian curse or I know there not a real species all the time running around,I have been out there,have YOU & I saw a spirit indian with a bigfoot,you figure it out,iv'e tried!
@Roger Bird When ever did scientists deny rocks falling from the sky? Can you cite which books or journal articles made this claim? It's actually about probability assessment, not denial or acceptance. Google Bayes' Theorem.
@Roger Bird that's why I love science and the scientific method.. when done correctly it is open to all possibilities and is willing and able to change when evidence presents itself... when done correctly lol
@Hikaru Sulu You don't understand "science" and think it's one monolithic entity. Palaeobiologists and palaeontologists have nothing whatsoever to do with medicine/medical research. They are two different faculties at a university. That's like saying "Why do scientists waste time on studying flowers when they could be making better computers?" - again, different faculties (botany vs computer science or electrical engineering).
Maybe this will help. http://johnostrowick.blogspot.com/2011/08/popular-misconceptions-about-science.html
@Hikaru Sulu You aren't very smart are you,they don't just look for color & for discovering things it shows so much your little brain wouldn't comprehend,why they were so huge,the viruses they had & how to make sure they don't come back & kill us all & 100's of other important things humans can learn from & possibly keep our races alive!Sorry I had to be a jerk about this.
all new discoveries are good discoveries regardless if they have a use like curing disease... and yea maybe the creationist minister thing was a bit of a low blow even if it does hold some truth.. obviously its wrong to say all Christians are ignorant but I don't think he meant it that way..
@Jaqueline Kuma @Michael Johnson The majority of people are seeing it including the few scientists looking at this information. I am surprised you cannot. That I cannot help you with I am afraid, but dermal ridges at 1/16 of an inch are huge. You have to look at yours on your hand with a magnifying glass.
@Jaqueline Kuma @Michael Johnson Just because they are part human doesn't mean they look like us at all. I will e-mail you a better shot for review. They have round black eyes and more of a snout than a nose. There are actually 4 in this photo. They camouflage that well.
@Frank Smith Frank, Frank, Frank...Really...I didn't say science was stupid. Just afraid to be in the game, except for a brave few. You obviously did not look at our website and evidence.
@Ed Iverson @Michael Johnson These are people not apes per se that care about each other has been my experience. I speculate they take care of their dead just like we do. I bet I will never find any bones from any of your relatives either lying out in the open either. In my areas, there are countless old, unsafe mines from 1850's that would serve well or boulder fields to discard remains. All the old fossil remains of hominids fit in the small bed of a pick up truck. Things disappear quickly in the woods at different rates, some faster than others as well. This I do not know for sure, but this is my speculation.
So, maybe they're not physical animals, after all...
@Shane C. @14 R3A50N Do you really mean "think about it" or do you mean blindly accept that its true and never question it? Because you know that the first thing they teach you in religion is to never question your faith?
Never question if there really is a God, never question how God could be invisible, never question how this creature could know the actions, thoughts and feelings of eight billion people all at the same time. Religion is not about asking questions or "thinking about it", religion is about believing what you're told regardless of how ludicrous it may seem.
I was not defending the 6 literal days period, and yes I know of that scripture, thus my agreement with science that the universe's creation took billions of years. So..... I have thought about it... as you could tell if you re-read my post. My belief is that the days of creation were great long epochs of time. Some ranging from billions and others millions of years.
@Craig Haynes @Shane C. I have spent time on the mountain on Vancouver Island directly across form Forbidden plateau. I have been In the Rockies, the Laurentian mountains in Quebec the forests of Newfoundland, New Brunswick and Ontario. I have never witnessed bigfoot, but I have seen much wildlife common to those areas.
@Craig Haynes @Shane C. Unfortunately one sighting does not count as statistical evidence - it's an "anecdote". This is not to say you didn't have whatever experience you had, just to say, if you want people to believe you, you have to divest the experience of your interpretation of it and look at it clinically for possible causes.
@Ryan Katic @Roger Bird The best thing about science is that you can question it. You can say "I think we've got gravity all wrong" and all they'll say is that's interesting. Try that with religion and many people on this planet right now will kill you dead for your blasphemy.
@Ryan Katic @Roger Bird And it is fun.
@John Ostrowick @Hikaru Sulu The Bible says that the knowledge of all things shall come to man. It does not say however that all the knowledge of things shall come to man. There is a difference. One thing for sure it also says where there is a lack of knowledge a people perish. This holds a absolute truth. Lets keep pursuing knowledge hopefully the knowledge of good rather than evil.
@Michael Johnson @Jaqueline Kuma I'm sorry Michael, I don't see it either. I would love for Big Foot to be real but so far, there isn't any credible evidence.
@Michael Johnson @Jaqueline Kuma I also am keenly aware of patterns and the nuances in life. I noticed you didn't see either piece of evidence well. I seriously doubt I can help you.
@Michael Johnson While fishing in Nfld. Canada in 1966 I came across half the carcass of a moose. I was only 12 years old but seeing birds, maggots and ants and flies all over it, I was partly traumatized for a few minutes and ran as fast as I could to get away from the area. Yes it is a rare occasion as I have been in the woods plenty of times since then and cannot recall seeing another carcass since.
@Ed Iverson I will say this to Ed, in 36 years in the woods of Colorado. I have never found a bear carcass or a mountain lion carcass either in the wild and I don't know any one of my friends in Colorado who has either and that includes all my hunter friends. Just not that easy. I saw a bear hit by a car once near Glenwood Springs.
yes. I do believe we are : )
@14 R3A50N I am not sure about billions, but definitely a lot longer than most creationist seem to believe. Thanks for your comment, at least we are still on the same page or so I think.
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