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'Loch Ness Monster' found on mobile map app???
hawkwing43
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I bet someone is going to say FAKE!. lol Go have a look, and tells us what you think.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/10775966/Has-Apple-maps-found-the-Loch-Ness-Monster.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/10775966/Has-Apple-maps-found-the-Loch-Ness-Monster.html
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Looks like either a funny reflection of a cloud or maybe some oil on the lake surface.
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Norway and Yeager dammit... I still want my Typhoon and Jupiter though.
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Doubtful if its a 100 feet long.
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Or slowing down unevenly. There's two distinct wakes, the V, (caused by a boat traveling faster than its wake), which doesn't meet in the middle because the boat decelerated suddenly. Ahead of that you have a U shaped wake about as wide as the break in the V, consistent with a boat traveling slower than its wake.
Not the sort of wake a good driver would leave, but you get a lot of drunk idiots on any small freshwater body with public access.
I had to look up this fan club. They've had two really, really silly "weird waves must be Nessie" stunts in the last few years. Last year they promoted a Youtube video of what was plainly two swans, claiming it to be a swan and the monster.
And they're big fans of George Edwards, who is probably the most brazen cryptozoological hoaxter (Rick Dyer, who's toured the country three times passing off the same cheap halloween costume as a dead bigfoot gives him a good run for his money), like reusing props from his documentary on how he faked his pictures. The entire club combined has less critical thinking skills than my cat (who at stopped trying to jump into the TV after getting hurt twice).
One of these days, we're actually going to find an x-creature and none of us will believe it even then.
I do so love x-creature hunt & controversy. If for no other reason than that every once in a blood moon, we actually find one. Orangutans, Riwoche horses, komodo dragons, okapi, gorillas, all were once the stuff of legends. I'm seriously hoping we find a thylacine pack soon.
Regarding the latest Nessie "sighting", no one would like it to be real more than me (well, maybe the members of the Loch Ness tourist commission), but I don't believe they've eliminated all the impossibles yet, so its jumping the gun to consider the improbable as truth. They did take it to some people who apparently know boats and the Loch well, so that's a start. If the info is accurate and what is pictured is not a surface feature, that's another interesting point to consider.
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I'm no boat or lighting expert so I'm just stating what I can observe about the object and compare it to other things I have seen.
What I do find interesting about it however is that in the middle of it, there is kind of a separate oval shape on top of it. Any guests as to what that might be.
(Puts on tinfoil hat and awaits a response).
Yep, seems like a very low definition picture of a whale shark.
It's a FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKKKKEEEE
*walks out*
Probably because no such creature, or any actual evidence has ever been found so that is the most likely answer.
i dont know if this is a fake or not (ie photoshoped) but i put this up there with the face on mars that got a few people excited, that turned out to be nothing of the sort. just the angle, the lighting, the resolution and our brains fooling us.
Loch Ness is freshwater and its only sea access is River Ness, which in some areas is shallow enough to wade accross. A whale shark couldn't reach it, not that it matters since they are not euryhaline and couldn't survive in it. Also, whale sharks bask and the volume of water required to feed a single one naturally exceeds the volume of Loch Ness, and I don't even want to think how much it would cost me to go down to the pet store and buy that much bottled plankton - my dragon goby costs me $10 a month and he's only about a foot long and skinny.
Anyway, here's a fun set of images: https://www.metabunk.org/threads/debunked-photo-of-nessie-in-apple-maps-satellite-image-of-loch-ness-boat.3474/
The Jacobite Queen, which patrols Loch Ness, leaves a distinctive double wake with a leading U and trailing V (common in a boat this size - I was trying to figure out how a small power boat could make a wake like that and overlooked the obvious), and at the resolutions and contrast used by Apple Maps is nearly invisible except for its wake and outline.
Edited with the more complete link with tons more evidence, particularly note the last image - even though the stitching process mostly lost the ship (it was in the bottom layer but not the top layer), it's still partially visible with a simple photoshop filter.
http://s1347.photobucket.com/user/AdmiralVoporak/media/Misc/Boat-comparison_zps983003b4.png.html
All that involved was drawing a selection circle around the boat and using the content-aware fill. If the supposed Nessie is in fact a removed boat wake, similar content aware methods or the clone stamp tool (copies pixels from a selected area and you can draw them on other parts of the image) might have been used.
They used photoshop to crank up the contrast on the map and the boat became partially visible, and they also used photoshop on a picture of the actual boat (turn down contrast, lower the resolution, and stitch it together with a patch of empty water) to produce an identical image - the only difference between theirs and the map image is that, since theirs is at a lower angle and not top-down, the contour illusion breaks and it looks like a flat feature of the water and not an object beneath it.
Please ignore my other post about it not being a wake, that was before I knew that the pictures contrast was messed up.
And also I must send this vital information to the Nessie fan club:http://m.youtube.com/index?&desktop_uri=%2F#/watch?v=7qKcJF4fOPs
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I read that he was being hidden in the same FBI safehouse as Tupac.
Sadly, that's not something I made up, I actually read that.
Why am I not surprised....:rolleyes:
No, that photo was proved to be a hoax.
Not that I'm saying there is a Loch Ness Monster. The lake is glacial in origin, utterly landlocked, and was never at any point connected to the sea. No way anything ancient like a relict dinosaur could even be there, or any way sturgeons (that could easily be mistaken for a monster, especially at large sizes) could get there. I'm 100% convinced there's no Loch Ness Monster to be found.
Bigfoot, on the other hand...
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Norway and Yeager dammit... I still want my Typhoon and Jupiter though.
JJ Trek The Kelvin Timeline is just Trek and it's fully canon... get over it. But I still prefer TAR.
#TASforSTO
'...I can tell you that we're not in the military and that we intend no harm to the whales.' Kirk: The Voyage Home
'Starfleet is not a military organisation. Its purpose is exploration.' Picard: Peak Performance
'This is clearly a military operation. Is that what we are now? Because I thought we were explorers!' Scotty: Into Darkness
'...The Federation. Starfleet. We're not a military agency.' Scotty: Beyond
'I'm not a soldier anymore. I'm an engineer.' Miles O'Brien: Empok Nor
'...Starfleet could use you... It's a peacekeeping and humanitarian armada...' Admiral Pike: Star Trek
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