What I mean is this: what will we talk about and do when the mystery is solved? When a corpse is on a slab or even a specimen is in a cage. When science, with no doubts, says BF is real.
I think first of all, BF will be put on the Endangered Species List so fast, it'll make your head spin.
Second, Discovery Channel will have "Bigfoot Week"
Then we'll see Steve Irwin crashing through the bushes and tackling a fleeing BF (Crikey! Isn't she a beauty!!).
And don't forget Jeff Corwin, cavorting with baby Bigfeet (No, don't pee on me lil' bigfoot!).
Hey, the market in blobsquatches will fall out!!

I don't know, what do you all think?

The vast majority of us should be ready to move from the role of investigators to conservators.

A big hugeI TOLD YOU SO NANNER NANNER NANNER then we will go int all the old war stories of back in the day when the trail was cold and the wilderness was deadly.We will tell of how we spent years on safari eating bugs and picking berries out of feces to survive and catch the elusive beast.

continue to argue about what he is, why he avoids us, how he survives in conditions we can't, where he came from and where he'll end up.
I'd imagine there will be a lifetime of new questions for this 1 answer.



Maybe the question should be what will Bipto do when Bigfoot is "found", 'cause this board, the BFF, will frick'n EXPLODE. 300,000,000 Americans are gonna want to know what's up with that.....immediately.

Then can we slap a bumper sticker on all our "friends" bumpers that say:

"I TOLD YOU SO!"

I think bipto is out buying more bandwith as we speak!

DONT LET IT CRASH!



WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Oh yeah. This place'll go down, no doubt about it.

The other side of the coin is, how/when will we find out that it DOSEN'T exist? That's a possibility too (with all due respect to those of you who think you have seen a bf). Who will make the announcement that there is no such thing and will everyone believe it? It will probably be easier to prove it exists rather than that it dosen't.

t.

well, by default, the standard is, it doesn't exist until someone proves it does...

so, I guess all those non-believers are currently on top since we can't prove it (yet)

Let's see.......a little champagne or tequila straight shots , followed by a phone call to all my friends and family who have dissed on me for my belief and I tell them to eat @#$%^ . And then find another one.

First, I would steal the specimen, and in my lab create an army of Sasquatch! Then, with this army, I shall set upon this world that fails to recognize my natural leadership and unquestionable genius! Finally, I will make the people pay! Finally, I will fulfill my destiny and take over the world!

"Narf!"

Quiet Pinky, or I shall have to hurt you.

Thanks..'cause I NEEDED that song stuck in my head...

I'd move on to mysteries of the ocean, or perhaps ailens.

Since I don’t watch Irwin, Corwin, or any other “wins” on the boob tube, I knew that the enviro-nazis would hijack the “new” species anyway, and couldn’t care less for what folks think about what I believe……

I think I’ll just continue to plan my own sasquatch hunt, and hunt for wolves, bears, and moose until then….

is there any other way to drink tequila?

When that day comes this board should be closed to everyone except current members.

All the posts should be printed and sold as a rather large expensive book.

Considering that it's taken hundreds of years and we still don't have definitive proof, or any means of regularly observing these creatures, I think once they are confirmed to exist there will be a lot of work trying to get observations in the wild.

Of course, that work will all be done by biology/anthropology/zoology/primatology professors and grad student, who will no doubt claim that they 'always believed' in the existance of sasquatch. Don't think for a minute that the people who've dedicated their lives to finding this animal will get so much as a look-in.

Gee4orce I agree, but I also think there is a vast amount of knowledge that those who have studied, tracked and chased this animal until now have that will give them an edge over "scientists".

I respectfully disagree. Species aren't simply Endangered until proven otherwise. They have to be proven threatened or endangered and that really isn't easy at all. If "science", whoever that is, finally accepts its existence.

On the subject of "who is science", I think of the bigfoot "discovery" as a slow evolution rather than a fast landslide. It wont be proved overnight. It may take a person, group, organization, agency, institution (...) to put up decent money for proper scientific research fieldwork AND result in successful data gathering AND have those results peer-reviewed, published in scientific journal(s). Success encourages more of the same to accomplish more of the same. Repeat process until the believers outnumber the non-believers... and I don't mean Joe Blow On the Street -who gives a crap what he believes. I wish I could believe it will be more grand than this.

Becoming listed on the Threatened and Endangered Species List would require years of standardized biological measurements. One piece of data doesn't constitute a statistical sample. Bigfoot's ecological niche would need to be better understood (I smell a lifetime of seasonal field jobs), it's interplay with other plant and animal species, it's biotic and abiotic requirements. It would have to be statistically and solidly proven that bigfoot population is shrinking below normal AND extinction is imminent. Well, heck, if we can't show how many there are, how many there were, when, where, why and how, then how can we say any of those factors are changing for better or for worse?

So what we'll do after it's "proven" is fill out job applications and do what we already do, but get paid for it. I've been doing fieldwork for a long time and I'm here to tell you: there'll be a lot of terds competing for jobs so 1) start working on your resumes now, 2) know that a degree is not a requirement -it just gets you better paid for the same work- experience counts too but pays less, 3) if no degree, work on the Related segments of your resume -special skills, equipment, related work or hobbies, training, etc, and 4) practice, take classes or whatever to bring your Three R's up to speed.

I would be totally glad to discuss further if people show an interest. Because I'd prefer to work with longtime bigfooters with no degree than degreed terds who can't read a compass and still need to break in their first pair of boots. Oh, those are my bosses -I don't have a degree. Yet. 10 classes to go.

or, sasquatch simply needs to be recognized as a hominid.
killing a hominid is homicide, I think there are already laws against that sort of behavior.

Sounds about right, Chronic. And we're not even endangered! Heck, there's so many of us that if we were deer it'd be freakin open season on us! But unlike other animals, we don't manage human populations. Well, there's certain things that might count as population management, but those are heated subjects I wont even mention here.

I would call all my family and friends and tell them about it (and rub my grandfather's face in it because he's a disbeliever), then I would come on here and post my feelings on the discovery. Then I would probably move onto something like "Nessie" or ghosts or something like that.

I don't think I could ever abandon it and move on to something else at this point, it's been with me, there in the back of my mind and now in the forefront, for too many years. It's fun to go looking and hope to see something, but, as someone who's never seen one, I think learning for-SURE-100%-scientifically-proven that they ARE out there, and there really is a chance to see one, would only deepen my own obsession and make me want to get out there even more.

I'm not so sure about that.

For example, in the late 1970's a man I know was arrested and tried for growing marijuana. Turns out the law specifically prohibited the cultivation of cannibis sativa. A botonist, he proved that he was growing cannibis indica.

He was acquitted.

I would imagine that the Association of Trial Lawyers of America and the various state legislatures would have great fun determining whether murder included or excluded "homo sasquatchus".

Even if a Sasquatch is lying dead on an autopsy table, and shown to the entire world on the eleven o-clock news, all we would have is proof that them exist. Just because we will, then, know that they are real does not mean that the work would be done. The first, and hopefully only, body will become the catalyst for a new field of research. Because the questions; of how they live, what are their family structures like, and eta., will need to be answered. Anthropologists and Geneticists will need to place the animal in its proper place on the evolutionary timeline, and so on.

No, I do not believe that one dead Sasquatch will be the end of the story.

I believe it will only close the book on the speculation, then open a blank book to be filled with the knowledge that will be discovered by studying these animals.

My 2 cents.

Leemon

The same "anthropologists" and "geneticists" that today deny the existence of the sasquatch?



Oh, boy, nor do I.

It will be the new beginning.



Yeah, the new blank "check" book.

What's worse, I'm afraid of the new "regs". We already have enough for a lawyer to choke on before taking a hike.

Let the sasquatch continue to "make a monkey" out of man.

No, excuse me, let me rephrase that:

Let the sasquatch continue to WATCH AS MANKIND CONTINUES TO MAKE MONKEYS OUT OF THEMSELVES.

I'll have a lot of people to say "Dats rite[/cool tone]" to.

I agree, and Bipto had better divide the proceeds up according to percentage of total posts on the board...

Here's a question... what scientific name will it be given?

How about "Homo Pattersoni"

or even, as a thumbing of the nose: "Homo Hieronimous"

Well, Homo Bostonius certainly won't do. Nor will Homo Sierrius, Homo Friendus of the Earthus, or Homo Fooldust-Longust.

Indeed, even the prefix "Homo" seems like an insult. It's been so abused.

Let's just call it "Bigfoot", or "Sasquatch" until the "qualified, Latin speaking experts" take over.

Feel any better about that proposal?

To ever study the sasquatch one is gonna have to either:
1- Find a dead one.....
2- Tranquilize one so that they can get DNA samples and video
3- Shoot and kill one to study body


Since the first one hasn't happened after all these years-FAT CHANCE.
I don't think tranquilization is possible without eventually killing it.
I don't think they will legally let someone kill one unless government
finally says lets get one of these and find out what this is.


I don't think tranquilization would be all that bad except when they wake up they are gonna be pissed, you would need a VERY STRONG CAGE to hold one of these big fellers!!!! ( remember what Jaws did to the shark cage) But at least the scientists would have time to photograph and take DNA samples and such. I think bigfoots are too smart to fall into a man made trap with bait etc...
Besides most times when someone does see one they just forget their brains and freeze from fear...it just takes over! What will we ever do!!!!! UGH!!!!


Sailgirl

What will we do when bigfoot is found?...What will I do?........

Obviously i'll retire from the janitorial/ home remodeling business and do more lectures, travel, find ways to spend my money for the good of humanity,etc.

As i stated on an earlier thread, referencing PsychedelicSchroom's question..............i favor the name "Gigantopithecus larseni".

Well, it won't be too long after they are "found" that you'll be able to go to some zoo and see them in their "natural habitat." Anybody and everybody will be able to go and see one, to "not tap on the glass," and to make monkey noises at them. People from Japan, Europe, shoot...everywhere, will make the trek to see the "missing link" while they munch on their over-priced popcorn while their kid throws peanuts at the "fuzzy man." Oh, yeah, folks will line up out the door to spend fifty whole dollars a pop for a glimpse at science's latest miracle discovery. You'll even be able to get a tri-fold four-color handout that shows wonderful up-close photos of the world's largest primate displaying extremely emotional expressions. But you better hurry, if you want the collectors' copy.

And that's just the public. Can you imagine what the world's professionals will put this one-of-a-kind "find" through.

Man, I've almost got myself convinced into not telling anybody that I've got one in my basement.

Reminds me of the time I was in the Tokyo zoo and some pinhead Japanese guy in a suit was tapping on the glass of the gorilla cage with his umbrella to prove how superior he was. The gorilla (full grown huge thing) jumped up, ran at the glass/plastic window and rammed his shoulder into it. The glass shook and bowed, and needless to say the Japanese guy jumped bag in fear and moved away quickly. It was one of those moments when you think that we are not that much different. I guess if I was in that cage I would feel the same way.

I remember on one of our highschool field trips to the St. Louis Zoo, some girl was pointing and laughing at either a chimp or gorilla's little er...peepee, and he finally figured out what she was laughing at, and nailed her square in the forehead with a lump of poop!

-Sarge

That is funny!

I think we would start talking about how to keep them safe, How many more there are, how they got like that and how many years they have been here. Most of all people will say how they knew all along that sasquatch was real and no one believed them. I would probably want to see the body in real life but im pretty sure the government would keep it a secret or not allow it to be seen. Until properly investigated.

HidingNtheWoods