Bill Gates plans to donate almost all of his money.

What would happen if he said "Here is 100 million! use it to prove the existence of BF one´s and for all"

What would you do to solve the mystery using the money?

I've often thought about hypothetical situations like so where people had unlimited funds to do research. My question is if there were such a big effort with no results, sort of a no stone unturned approach, would there come a time that without results even people who believe might begin to doubt?
The thing is, presently, it's still rather easy to accept that there's not enough efforts, or that people are going about it the wrong way, or that research is limited in techniques, numbers and funding, to where it justifies the lack of results to an extent.

Perhaps with enough money, one could rent or possibly buy the neat equipment that the Mysterious Encounters crew has and do some real Sas hunting with it.

World's biggest mouse trap...

A hundred sq

$100mil bounty from a reputable person? I say make it a bounty with a time limit. (sorry to all you anti kill folks)

Personally I think it would most likely draw the wrong crowd, at least at first. It wouldn't be just us out there anymore, it would be anyone capable of carrying a firearm with plans to shoot, or mega 4x4 with plans of running down every moving object in the forests. Anyone with long hair or a beard, and 6 foot or taller would be open game, and would probably make the gold rush of the mid 1800's look like a average Sunday afternoon. We probably already have more than our fair share of people looking now, that are doing so for the fame, money and prestige they may gain because of it. Luckily they usually get frustrated and tire of the search fast.

That kind of money would certainly buy tons of great equipment and supplies which would be extremely helpful to anyone interested in attempting a serious expedition to find Bigfoot. I think with pockets that deep maybe someone could find Bigfoot but only if the chosen search party was kept small and organized. Everything you would need could be carried into the field by 4-6 people and this small group wouldn't disturb the forest nearly as much as a larger group would. Well funded expeditions tend to become huge affairs with 20 or more people involved trampling through the wilderness and letting every living creature within 5 miles know that the humans are coming. Sometimes all the fancy equipment and all the manpower in the world is just too much for the task at hand but if done correctly I think a small well run search party would have a good chance.

if a similar scenario was to happen.i would hope he would not go public.fund researchers who have a knowledge of b.f.a bounty would only result in a bunch of yahoos running aroud with guns.someone would surely be killed.

Ok Ok, maybe that would get people hurt.

$100 mil to the first National Primate research center or scientific group to capture a live BF. How about that? At least it would get some serious equipment and resources dedicated.

now your talkin'

First, I'd go to Vegas and double my $100,000,000. Marry Britney Spears for 72 hours... Oh, wait a second...

Actually, aside from all the gadgets and gizmos that a person could by with that mony to facilitate in the hunt for the tall hariy one, the most important aspect would be the ability of the hypothetical organization to have the ability to pay a full time staff to react immediately when a sighting was made.

Kind of like the movie "Twister". Storm chasers have the funds necessary to be available at a moments notice to track down a tornado. Imagine the increase in productive time if a group of investigators could arrive in hours as opposed to when their "day jobs" would let them?

Jon

Ah yes...Remember Jaws? And the mayor comes out with the bounty on "the shark". And all the local yokels come out in their 12 foot aluminum bass boats to catch the shark? The Hooper shows up and tells them their all going to die?

Give me the Orca anyday.

Jon

With a hundred million dollars, you could buy much better equipment than than that used by Mysterious Encounters, for example, a FLIR (infared imager) used by police and military. I think Autumn Williams, Moneymaker and crew are too noisy, too reliant on light, too domesticated, hang around roads and trails too much, and waste too much time on worthless things like pheromones. As a former infantry sergeant, I cringed at their lack of stealth. Those tactics would get you killed in war. In a search for bigfoot, it would likely warn any bigfoot miles away that someone is acting mighty suspicious. If I had the 100 million, I would like to hire some green beret, and move into a prime location in the forest staying far from roads and trails, using the latest night vision equipment and setting up very sophisticated traps (for cameras and possibly DNA). I was taught by some green beret who served in Nam how to set up booby traps. The details escape my memory but what I do remember was just how very dangerous those traps can be. While in Germany in 1980, we used ground surveillance radars which were portable though bulky units that would tell you if anything moved within about a kilometer. If a deer was walking in the woods, it would give you direction and distance and pretty precisely. I haven't heard or seen them since though. I guess the military probably didn't like broadcasting radar signals which would give your position away.

For heaven sakes with that much money you can buy satelite time and track him that way.

You can also build a state of the art research cabin.

You can staff it with knowledgeable personnel and spend time on training them in all aspects of the project.

Best of all you could finally gather all the sightings reports and analyze them correctly.

Remember that Bill Gates has already donated more money then the 2:nd, 3:rd and 4:th most important private donators in the world.

It´s actually true that he plans to donate almost all of his money and he has always been "I believe at least" living in the Pacific Northwest "Bigfootland".

Me may not donate 100 million but it´s not impossible that he will donate a few millions if you can convince him that there is plenty of support for the existence of a North American ape.

Um, like 100 million isn't even close to all of Bill's money.

Let's put it another way, you won the lottery, say 50 million. How much would you spend on finding Bigfoot?

Right now, Mega Millions is $121,000,000. I figured out how much you would have left after they take half for the payout option and then adding the tax loss.... $42,955,000 is about what you'd pocket.

With that much cash, I would quit my job (obviously) and get situated in a nice house on private land. Once I was happy with everything I would start hunting for sas full time. I would just keep going deeper into the woods until I finally found one... unless they really don't exist and then I'd be pissed for wasting all that time.

I wouldn't spend lots on it, If you can devote 100% of your time on this for a while, then I don't think you'd need all that fancy gear.

You mean you haven't already done that ?

The rest of us have !

For the first year, I think I would search for Squatch the same places OJ is searching for the 'real killer'; golf courses and warm weather resorts.

After I got tired of daiquiris and mojitos, I would move on to more serious research. Even a part timer, given a copious supply of top-end equipment, might be able to do some good.

But...She said she loved me...

Jon "Juan DeMarco"

Exactly, but we can hardly expect him to donate more anyway!

$10 million to the first person who can habituate a sasquatch and provide ongoing, repeatable evidence.

$10 million to the second person who can do the same.
$10 million to the third person who can do the same.
etc., to 100mm.

$0 for a dead sasquatch, otherwise every tom/dick/harry with a bottle of whisky and a box of 30.06 shells will head out to the woods to bag the booger with a bounty.

For a $100 mil you could have a small fleet of aircraft with flir scouring an area that has recent sightings. When you find one, you then track it continuously until a foot partrol can surround the area. Then you dart with an elephant tranquilizer and run like hell. maybe it dies from the shot maybe not, but at least you bring it down. then you bring in the big helicopters to lift it out. then you take it to new york and have a big public unveiling. whereupon it escapes and climbs the empire state building.

before you all spend bills money maybe someone could run your idea by him. You never know. If you promise him a key chain maybe he'll agree.

note notheds post just above

Did you see SpaceShip One fly to 100KM?

This was sponsored by the Xprize founded by Paul Allen (The other microsoft founder).

Instead of giving away the money, they pledged a prize of $10M to whoever could fly an airplane to 100Km.

I think this would be a better way to go.

Trouble with that is that the winners actually spent more than the prize money.
They had deep pocket help already and just needed the incentive to go for it.

True, they'd have to bump the prize up enough that the winner could make 5x or 10x their investment to get some action going.

Big Money will attract Big Problems.

Hell, we already have Big Problems trying to attract Big Money.

I guess rounding out the equation can't hurt much more.

That would then make it a very good idea.

Can money solve the bfmystery?


just a thought.......


maybe money greated the BF "mystery"

ummm, I mean Created... lost its impact now