So; Where is all the Bigfoot road kill?

[jhunter1163]

Originally Posted by EHocking

Cavemen used to herd mammoths off cliffs. Obviously an instinct carried down through the evolution of BF...

Native Americans used to do this too;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head-Sm...n_Buffalo_Jump

[RayG]

Originally Posted by LTC8K6

What...is the ground speed velocity of an unladen Sasquatch?

American or Canadian?

RayG

[parnassus]

Originally Posted by LTC8K6

What...is the ground speed velocity of an unladen Sasquatch?

They can fart incredibly hard and long, sounds like a motorcycle, so the ground speed of a
bean laden sasquatch
is much greater.

That's how one got away at Tora Bora.

Of course, I could be wrong, that's just my recollection.

[AttorneyTom]

Originally Posted by RayG

American or Canadian?

RayG

What ? I dont know.. ahhhhhhh!

[LTC8K6]

Originally Posted by RayG

American or Canadian?

RayG

I don't know...

[mustbeso]

American= 30 mph
Canadian= 50kph
?

[AttorneyTom]

Originally Posted by mustbeso

American= 30 mph
Canadian= 50kph
?

Well.. it depends.. tail wind or head wind ? How big of a stick ?

[HarryHenderson]

Originally Posted by LTC8K6

What...is the ground speed velocity of an unladen Sasquatch?

Fahrenbach has it all dialed in for ya here (and here). Seems Bigfoot really is pretty zippy. If I'm George Bush, I'm smellin' domestication as pizza delivery drivers runners.

"...I would estimate the top running speed of the Sasquatch to be near 35 mph (658 kph), the speed of a galloping horse..."

"...Extrapolation from step lengths and observed running cadence (about 140 steps/min) suggests a top speed of the sasquatch of 35-40 mph (658-741 kph), the speed of a galloping horse..."

Originally Posted by RayG

American or Canadian?

RayG

American is in bold, Canadian is highlighted.

[AttorneyTom]

I wonder why the Canadian BF's are so much faster than their US counterparts ? They must have a much happier family life maybe ?

[GT/CS]

Henner doesn't have a math degree does he?

[AttorneyTom]

Originally Posted by GT/CS

Henner doesn't have a math degree does he?

Probably not.. but if he or she did they could probably get a job after college ?

Meanwhile....It is amazing to me how much faster they are able to run in Canada ? You would think that at that speed .. the CDN speed.. that would some how misjudge the traffic and also leave alot of fur on the pine trees ? Gosh...

[HarryHenderson]

Originally Posted by AttorneyTom

Probably not.. but if he or she did they could probably get a job after college ?

Meanwhile....It is amazing to me how much faster they are able to run in Canada ? You would think that at that speed .. the CDN speed.. that would some how misjudge the traffic and also leave alot of fur on the pine trees ? Gosh...

Literally laughed out loud.

...And coming up on next week's show: Is Bigfoot Just Too Fast For Modern Technology To Discern? 98.6% of a group of some people (brain injury patients mostly) say yeah. We'll show you the shocking proof.

[wheunis]

Originally Posted by LTC8K6

What...is the ground speed velocity of an unladen Sasquatch?

"Damn, he's good."

[GT/CS]

Originally Posted by HarryHenderson

Literally laughed out loud.

...And coming up on next week's show: Is Bigfoot Just Too Fast For Modern Technology To Discern? 98.6% of a group of some people (brain injury patients mostly) say yeah. We'll show you the shocking proof.

Harry,
You may be onto something here.
Would anyone be able to see a bigfoot traveling at 409mph?
Maybe that's why Patty wasn't concerned about Patterson and Gimlin; she knew she could kick it into another gear whenever she needed! The great speed would also explain her rock hard boobs. Can't have those things flopping at over 400mph!!

[The Shrike]

Confused - I found this quote from Fahrenbach's paper:

"I would estimate the top running speed of the Sasquatch to be near 35 mph (56 kph), the speed of a galloping horse."

[parnassus]

Originally Posted by GT/CS

Harry,
... The great speed would also explain her rock hard boobs. Can't have those things flopping at over 400mph!!

these would be the original wood knockers.

and by the way, I thought 'bean laden" was pretty good, if I do say so myself.

[parnassus]

27.79 mph by Usain Bolt is the fastest human speed, other than those achieved by certain unfortunate sky divers.

Quote:

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker
Terminal velocity of a human is 117-125mph in random posture. If the human has uses the bullet shaped position, (sometimes used by experienced sky divers or seen in movies), there terminal velocity can reach speeds up to 210mph.

[GT/CS]

Originally Posted by The Shrike

Confused - I found this quote from Fahrenbach's paper:

"I would estimate the top running speed of the Sasquatch to be near 35 mph (56 kph), the speed of a galloping horse."

That is much better than 658kph!

[AlaskaBushPilot]

500 to 1,000 moose a year are killed by traffic or the railroad in Alaska every year. In 1989-1990 it was two thousand. 749 by the railroad and 1200 on the roads.

Shrike - can you please add this to your model of bigfoot food sources?

[BravesFan]

i was wondering if it is even possible for a creature to be bipedal and so large. I could understand a critter being able to stand up to grab high fruit and/or leaves, but I have a hard time believing a critter that weighs 600-800 lbs, could maintain a bipedal gait with a hinged feet.



ETA: Heck, think about how hard normal walking becomes to extremely tall people as they age

[parnassus]

Most of them were purposefully chased into harms way by bigfoots. It's a great strategy.
(well, I am assuming that Moneymaker's theory of bigfoots chasing deer into roadways would also hold with the meese. er moose. )

[parnassus]

Originally Posted by BravesFan

i was wondering if it is even possible for a creature to be bipedal and so large. I could understand a critter being able to stand up to grab high fruit and/or leaves, but I have a hard time believing a critter that weighs 600-800 lbs, could maintain a bipedal gait with a hinged feet.



ETA: Heck, think about how hard normal walking becomes to extremely tall people as they age

Well, of course that is one of the great flaws in the hinged foot theory.
If you don't have that arch, then the transmission of force from the gastrocnemius is mostly lost, and the small muscles of the foot have to propel the body weight forward (if you have a true bipedal gait like the PattyBob). That just can't work. What is so amazing is that Meldrum can't see the fake ape walk in the PGF for what it is certainly is: a manlike gait, a man doing a half-assed humorous imitation of an ape, like you'd see in a boys locker room.

The fake bipedalers, like an occasional gorilla, without a rigid arch, don't vault/push off over the toes. They walk upright mostly by planting one foot, then pushing off the inside edge of the back foot, pivoting/swinging the other leg around forward, while tilting the body from side to side to achieve foot/ground clearance.

[Drewbot]

I pose this question to Dr. Meldrum;

If a sasquatch foot is hinged, for mountainous, rough terrain of the PNW, how did they walk the thousands of miles from Africa to the Bering land bridge, and down through to the PNW? Clearly the proper bipedal foot for long distance travel is the human-like foot.

Isn't it true that bipeds that dispersed from Africa had a human-like bipedal foot with no flexible mid-foot?

Did Sasquatch evolve AFTER the bipedal humans arrived? So the Sasquatch foot basically evolved from the APES which had mid-foot flexing ability, to the Bipedal foot of Human like creatures, walked out of Africa, across Asia, then evolved some more to regain the ability for mid-foot flexing?

[AlaskaBushPilot]

Originally Posted by Drewbot

I pose this question to Dr. Meldrum;

If a sasquatch foot is hinged, for mountainous, rough terrain of the PNW, how did they walk the thousands of miles from Africa to the Bering land bridge, and down through to the PNW? Clearly the proper bipedal foot for long distance travel is the human-like foot.

Isn't it true that bipeds that dispersed from Africa had a human-like bipedal foot with no flexible mid-foot?

Did Sasquatch evolve AFTER the bipedal humans arrived? So the Sasquatch foot basically evolved from the APES which had mid-foot flexing ability, to the Bipedal foot of Human like creatures, walked out of Africa, across Asia, then evolved some more to regain the ability for mid-foot flexing?

I take it my responsibility to write a paper to Merldumb's online Journal proposing the locking mid-tarsal break. In this evolutionary breakthrough, bigfoot can lock the arch for long-distance upright walking, and displace the locking knuckle at mid-tarsal for scrambling 4-wheel drive action otherwise.

[BravesFan]

Originally Posted by AttorneyTom

I wonder why the Canadian BF's are so much faster than their US counterparts ? They must have a much happier family life maybe ?

and here I thought that it was the Jamaicans that were always faster....

[mustbeso]

Originally Posted by AlaskaBushPilot

I take it my responsibility to write a paper to Merldumb's online Journal proposing the locking mid-tarsal break. In this evolutionary breakthrough, bigfoot can lock the arch for long-distance upright walking, and displace the locking knuckle at mid-tarsal for scrambling 4-wheel drive action otherwise.

Do you suppose it has a switch? I have one on the dashboard of my old Explorer.

[Drewbot]

Originally Posted by AlaskaBushPilot

I take it my responsibility to write a paper to Merldumb's online Journal proposing the locking mid-tarsal break. In this evolutionary breakthrough, bigfoot can lock the arch for long-distance upright walking, and displace the locking knuckle at mid-tarsal for scrambling 4-wheel drive action otherwise.

Ahhh... so it is similar to the Leopard being able to lock it's wrists when climbing trees. Perhaps Bigfoot evolved from the Panthera genus, and we have been approaching this from the wrong angle.

[The Shrike]

Originally Posted by AlaskaBushPilot

Shrike - can you please add this to your model of bigfoot food sources?

Heh heh - will do. Fresh moose sure beats bark lichens . . .

[tsig]

Originally Posted by HarryHenderson

Fahrenbach has it all dialed in for ya here (and here). Seems Bigfoot really is pretty zippy. If I'm George Bush, I'm smellin' domestication as pizza delivery drivers runners.

"...I would estimate the top running speed of the Sasquatch to be near 35 mph (658 kph), the speed of a galloping horse..."

"...Extrapolation from step lengths and observed running cadence (about 140 steps/min) suggests a top speed of the sasquatch of 35-40 mph (658-741 kph), the speed of a galloping horse..."


American is in bold, Canadian is highlighted.

Reading that reminds me of manuscripts by medieval monks describing characteristics of angels.

[AttorneyTom]

Originally Posted by tsig

Reading that reminds me of manuscripts by medieval monks describing characteristics of angels.

Or a "Jimmy John" commercial where they employ BF Delivery peeps ?

Edit: A Canadian commercial, of course .

[William Parcher]

Originally Posted by William Parcher

Jane Goodall had more to say about Bigfoot recently in a NPR radio show (2009) ...

Well, now Jane Goodall has said more about Bigfoot...

Quote:

"I'm not going to flat-out deny its existence," Goodall said during an exclusive interview with The Huffington Post before a benefit dinner in La Jolla, Calif. "I'm fascinated and would actually love them to exist.

"Of course, it's strange that there has never been a single authentic hide or hair of the Bigfoot, but I've read all the accounts."

[RedRatSnake]

Bigfoot seems to be having a rough time lately, They better think up something good for the next shenanigan, or they might find themselves in a pretty silly position. "O" wait! They already are in one.

Tim

[Robrob]

Originally Posted by tsig

Reading that reminds me of manuscripts by medieval monks describing characteristics of angels.

Not to mention that anyone with an ounce of common sense knows an animal supposedly that big can't run on two legs at 35mph, period. That's 1.7 minute miles. The fastest humans can barely run at 15mph (4 minute miles). A world class sprinter can hit 27mph for mere seconds.

[Castro]

Originally Posted by William Parcher

Well, now Jane Goodall has said more about Bigfoot...

"I'm not going to flat-out deny its existence," Goodall said during an exclusive interview with The Huffington Post before a benefit dinner in La Jolla, Calif. "I'm fascinated and would actually love them to exist.

"Of course, it's strange that there has never been a single authentic hide or hair of the Bigfoot, but I've read all the accounts."

It's nicely said... almost like she didn't want to break a membership agreement.

[RedRatSnake]

Originally Posted by Castro

It's nicely said... almost like she didn't want to break a membership agreement.

Brilliant ! I think your onto something.

~ Parcher ~ That was a good find.

Tim

[River]

I like how she laughed as soon as bigfoot was mentioned

[AttorneyTom]

Originally Posted by BravesFan

i was wondering if it is even possible for a creature to be bipedal and so large. I could understand a critter being able to stand up to grab high fruit and/or leaves, but I have a hard time believing a critter that weighs 600-800 lbs, could maintain a bipedal gait with a hinged feet.



ETA: Heck, think about how hard normal walking becomes to extremely tall people as they age

They are extremely adaptive critters, Brother ! It is a good thing we adopted here in the US the anti can ring pull tab policy back in the 70's or other wise they would all have these toe issues ?

[RedRatSnake]

Personally because of the BF, i had a shelter built in my basement in case of an attack. I fear they might take up arms one of these days and threaten us all. They are crafty sob's and know the land. Some day's they could be running down a highway at 35 per staring into your car with those beady red eyes, and the next day just chilling busting up some branches for the dumb humans to find. We are being out classed and don't even know it.

Tim

[mewsmuse]

Well, they just shut down a Chinese restaurant in Kentucky for having roadkill in the business....hmmm. Maybe that's why we have no Bigfoot roadkill. Maybe all these out of the way places find this normal, to scrape up the big stinky ape and cook him.

[xtifr]

Ah, so it's not a government conspiracy, it's a conspiracy of cooks! Makes as much sense as most other theories, I suppose.

eta: I just hope we don't use the same theory to explain the absence of scat!