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Is it true that there used to be real sasquatches roaming the Earth thousands of years ago?
Loren Eisley tells the story in one of his books about a village of oversized headed skeletons that was found in Africa - people long dead without descendents. His thought was that the notions we have concerning cranial capacity and intelligence are wrong, because these big headed people would have been intelligent enough to live on and survive. He might be right, because brains are really about surface area, which is why we have all the fissures in our cerebrums. If you flattened out all the fissures of a human brain you'd have something with a surface area bigger than any other animal. Except dolphins, I understand. Good thing for us they don't have opposable thumbs.Originally posted by Loren Booda
Recently, Neanderthals were thought to have a larger cranial capacity than homo sapiens sapiens, but I believe that hypothesis has been refuted (by a superior brain).
Originally posted by Loren Booda
The human brain is supposedly the most intricate entity in the universe as we know it.
I would tend to agree with this but I've heard that dolphins do have more surface area. If they were more intelligent they would have no way to manifest it to us, not having the ability to manipulate materials as we do, or the vocal mechanism to reproduce our speech.Originally posted by Loren Booda The human brain is supposedly the most intricate entity in the universe as we know it.
Originally posted by einsteinian77
Isn't math just a retarded way of establishing something that is already existing inside your brain?
The thing is, if they were more intelligent than us, it would be a kind of intelligence so foreign to our way of thinking that we would not be able to understand or appreciate it. It would be an intelligence suited to life in the water, where you have to catch all your food with your own mouth, suited to navigation by echolocation and vocalization with squeaks and chatter.Originally posted by einsteinian77
It could be that they are more intelligent than us though, considering most of the accomplishements of man are mainly inspired by pure motivation and not intelligence.
Feeling hungry, hmm, tasty fish off the left, at 1.32 rads, down 0.02 rads ... sonar on ... distance 45 whales ... turning, turning, executing the 'tuna' maneouver ... let's see, to catch this juicy morsel I'll have to solve the following problems in vector algebra, and optimise a solution to the following 35 partial differential equations, using the following physical parameters ...Originally posted by zoobyshoe
Yeah, they're really dumb when to comes to cigarettes, guns, booze, heroin,the Jones,'exercise, and antibiotics, but you should see them when it comes to differential equations.
Originally posted by Nereid
If humans are so smart, how come they keep smoking, buying guns (homo sap sap USus), binge drinking, shooting heroin, keeping up with the Joneses, not exercising enough and overeating, taking broad-spectrum antibiotics for viral illneses, ...?
Originally posted by Nereid
If humans are so smart, how come they keep
smoking - to get high
buying guns - to kill
binge drinking - to get drunk
shooting heroin - to, once again, get high
keeping up with the Joneses - to get rich
not exercising enough and overeating - to get fat
antibiotics for viral illneses - pure ignorance
Nautica
There have been numerous eyewitness accounts and sightings of large, ape-like creatures throughout history. There have also been footprints and hair samples that do not match any known animal species.
Some scientists believe that the lack of physical evidence could be due to the elusive nature of these creatures, as well as their ability to blend in with their surroundings and avoid human detection. Others argue that the supposed evidence, such as footprints and hair samples, could have been hoaxed or misidentified.
The lack of concrete, irrefutable evidence is often cited as the strongest argument against the existence of Sasquatches in the past. Skeptics argue that if these creatures truly existed, there would be more substantial evidence, such as a body or DNA samples.
Yes, there are many cultural and historical references to large, hairy, ape-like creatures throughout different cultures and time periods. These references can be found in myths, legends, and oral traditions of various indigenous peoples.
Some researchers and believers propose the idea that Sasquatches could be a surviving species of ancient humans, such as Neanderthals or Denisovans. However, there is currently no scientific evidence to support this theory.