26th January 2006, 8:35 AM
There's plausibles in play, Big foot could very well be a North American ape and a gorilla which walks upright. That's not far fetched at all. We already look and act very similar to all great ape hominoids and there were greater apes found in North America (but are thought now to be extinct, and no scientist wants to compare those findings with a 'bigfoot')
In the video, we see an animal that has features of a gorilla. Look at the muscle shapes and design of the layout, where bulkier hair is and where the softer hair is.
Now, if I were going to design a big foot suit, the first thing I would do is look at pictures of our closest relatives and try to make it look like a standing gorilla. I would have the person in the suit watch video of actual apes walking on two legs. The slumped back, the swaying arms, the inquesitive nature to look back at the possible threat and the calm yet brisk walk away. These can all be found in real apes when dealing with people who are taking pictures of them in the wild.
But look at the time it was made, and to make such a thing by hand? As in, someone had to make this suit in their garage, making full body casts of the person who is going to wear it, creating a full helmet etc and using a shit-ton of latex and plaster. Making a full body suit in film takes alot of skill. Well, alot of skill to make it look real. It would take years for one guy to put it together, probably around two years of work. If he had a team of people, you could cut it down to a few months but that's a large operation.
So then you have your actor watch the videos, study the movement and get a good walk going with actions.
Then you find your location, set up your camera and... have the actor pass by in less than 15 seconds?
All that work, and they're going to spend it all on 15 seconds? And then never do it again? if he actually had this suit and went through all the work possible, wouldn't he pop up every few years with more 'proof?' with better videos, etc? But he didn't, in fact the guy who shot the video had just gotten that camera and I believe he was fishing at the time.
It's very possible that he had nothing to do with it, and this suit was made by some people who decided to randomly walk through th forest, looking for people to scare. But again, if this were true, it would have been documented on film again. Some of the men in the forests would have taken shots at it with a gun while hunting and ultimately, whether it's one person or a team of people, someone would have eventually slipped up and revealed it to be a hoax.
Waaaaay to many problems present itself when you take the video as a fake. It's actually more plausible to believe it as real. Someone shot video of an animal in the wild. No one would question it if it were a silver back gorilla because we know them to exist nad documented it, but we find new species all the time and the scientists just scratch their heads and say "Oh, didn't see that before..."
Now, if the animal is real, and we collect all the stories of encounters, we paint a picture of an animal that not acts very ape like but shows more intelligence than most apes. This intelligence might force these apes in to hiding, it could be a common belief among them that humans are extremely dangerous. In no report, document, sighting, etc, did anyone claim to have been bitten. The bigfoot would steal their fish, or would be found sleeping in the barn or other non-aggresive behaviors. If a greater ape were to survive in the forests of America (and other parts of the world outside of Africa) it would develop a diet of mostly greens, nuts, berries and fish. Most forest predators would avoid such a large ape like animal, but in the case of bears or large cats the bigfoot would pobably be able to outsmart it pretty quick in a group. Finding good hiding places, ways to attack from a distance, etc.
In this lifestyle, such an animal would become very much an animal of solitude, at most living in tight family groups and probably avoiding as much confrontation as possible.
To say that such an ape does not exist is stupid, there's nothing to say it doesn't exist and there's pictures and movies showing us that it does. We just have to believe them as credible.
I remember that episode of Futurama it was awesome. But think about it, is it really so far fetched to believe that an animal would use the lakes as a bathroom? Or bury it? or even eat it (like other greater apes)? If I asked you to go through cities, towns, forests, mountains, etc, and asked you to find human droppings, would you find it? of course not, we dont leave that shit laying around, we dispose of it. Other animals do this as well and it makes sense for a large hominid who lives in relatively small forests with possible predators to dispose of it as well.
In the video, we see an animal that has features of a gorilla. Look at the muscle shapes and design of the layout, where bulkier hair is and where the softer hair is.
Now, if I were going to design a big foot suit, the first thing I would do is look at pictures of our closest relatives and try to make it look like a standing gorilla. I would have the person in the suit watch video of actual apes walking on two legs. The slumped back, the swaying arms, the inquesitive nature to look back at the possible threat and the calm yet brisk walk away. These can all be found in real apes when dealing with people who are taking pictures of them in the wild.
But look at the time it was made, and to make such a thing by hand? As in, someone had to make this suit in their garage, making full body casts of the person who is going to wear it, creating a full helmet etc and using a shit-ton of latex and plaster. Making a full body suit in film takes alot of skill. Well, alot of skill to make it look real. It would take years for one guy to put it together, probably around two years of work. If he had a team of people, you could cut it down to a few months but that's a large operation.
So then you have your actor watch the videos, study the movement and get a good walk going with actions.
Then you find your location, set up your camera and... have the actor pass by in less than 15 seconds?
All that work, and they're going to spend it all on 15 seconds? And then never do it again? if he actually had this suit and went through all the work possible, wouldn't he pop up every few years with more 'proof?' with better videos, etc? But he didn't, in fact the guy who shot the video had just gotten that camera and I believe he was fishing at the time.
It's very possible that he had nothing to do with it, and this suit was made by some people who decided to randomly walk through th forest, looking for people to scare. But again, if this were true, it would have been documented on film again. Some of the men in the forests would have taken shots at it with a gun while hunting and ultimately, whether it's one person or a team of people, someone would have eventually slipped up and revealed it to be a hoax.
Waaaaay to many problems present itself when you take the video as a fake. It's actually more plausible to believe it as real. Someone shot video of an animal in the wild. No one would question it if it were a silver back gorilla because we know them to exist nad documented it, but we find new species all the time and the scientists just scratch their heads and say "Oh, didn't see that before..."
Now, if the animal is real, and we collect all the stories of encounters, we paint a picture of an animal that not acts very ape like but shows more intelligence than most apes. This intelligence might force these apes in to hiding, it could be a common belief among them that humans are extremely dangerous. In no report, document, sighting, etc, did anyone claim to have been bitten. The bigfoot would steal their fish, or would be found sleeping in the barn or other non-aggresive behaviors. If a greater ape were to survive in the forests of America (and other parts of the world outside of Africa) it would develop a diet of mostly greens, nuts, berries and fish. Most forest predators would avoid such a large ape like animal, but in the case of bears or large cats the bigfoot would pobably be able to outsmart it pretty quick in a group. Finding good hiding places, ways to attack from a distance, etc.
In this lifestyle, such an animal would become very much an animal of solitude, at most living in tight family groups and probably avoiding as much confrontation as possible.
To say that such an ape does not exist is stupid, there's nothing to say it doesn't exist and there's pictures and movies showing us that it does. We just have to believe them as credible.
I remember that episode of Futurama it was awesome. But think about it, is it really so far fetched to believe that an animal would use the lakes as a bathroom? Or bury it? or even eat it (like other greater apes)? If I asked you to go through cities, towns, forests, mountains, etc, and asked you to find human droppings, would you find it? of course not, we dont leave that shit laying around, we dispose of it. Other animals do this as well and it makes sense for a large hominid who lives in relatively small forests with possible predators to dispose of it as well.