jgoins Report This Comment Date: January 28, 2013 10:48AM
Even if they had a clean uncontaminated sample, DNA tests will never be able to
prove bigfoot because there are no known samples to compare them to in any
database. The only result that could be obtained would come back as
inconclusive and would result in being an unknown species. The only proof would
be to capture one alive and even then there would always be skeptics and if a
body is brought in dead there would be even more skeptics.
BlahX3 Report This Comment Date: January 28, 2013 01:36PM
I am not sure that a veterinarian is a qualified DNA expert but I am damn sure
you aren't.
fossil_digger Report This Comment Date: January 28, 2013 03:56PM
there actually have been many hair samples taken from trees etc. that are
questionable
quasi Report This Comment Date: January 28, 2013 10:05PM
Those were mine.
fossil_digger Report This Comment Date: January 28, 2013 10:54PM
boney knothole is not spanish
quasi Report This Comment Date: January 28, 2013 11:05PM
Bear grease works best to bone knotholes but I supposed that would give some
really strange DNA results.
jgoins Report This Comment Date: January 29, 2013 12:22PM
I agree I am not a dna expert but I do know that simply running the sample to
obtain dna results tells you nothing unless you have a known result to compare
it to. They take the result of the test and compare it to results of other
known species and show it is none of them but unless they have known bigfoot dna
results in the database they cannot say it is a bigfoot because they will never
get a match to anything. There are samples of every know species in the
database already to compare the results to and since bigfoot is not a known
species their results will not be in the database. Common sense and watching
Bones will tell you that. If the results do not match anything on record then
the results are inconclusive.
fossil_digger Report This Comment Date: January 29, 2013 04:04PM
wrong, if they do not match anything on record, it is conclusive proof of an
unknown species.
BlahX3 Report This Comment Date: January 29, 2013 05:53PM
JG, I don't claim that this person has any proof of anything, I though it was
an interesting article and on topic. I really don't think you can claim to have
a working understanding of DNA based on common sense and watching Bones on TV.
That is actually laughable. Had you read and comprehended the article you would
see that she claims to have found some DNA matches with human DNA traceable to
the maternal side of the creature's history. Do I believe it is true? No, I
don't. If her research passes peer review and is accepted as valid by the
scientific community then I might be more prone to believe it.
BTW, JG, Bones is entertainment, not science class. Shows like that tend to have
more holes than acoustic ceiling tile. Good show but don't take it as fact. It
isn't and is not meant to be.
pro_junior Report This Comment Date: January 29, 2013 06:30PM
Bigfoot is real!
I learned it watchin
Harry and the Hendersons 
BlahX3 Report This Comment Date: January 29, 2013 06:39PM
That is a funny movie. I like it.
I have met a lot of people who swear that Bigfoot is real. The problem with all
of their testimonies is the same thing though, it is always someone who knows
someone else who has the "proof" that we never get to see.
quasi Report This Comment Date: January 29, 2013 07:19PM
Bones isn't real? ;(
BlahX3 Report This Comment Date: January 29, 2013 07:27PM
It's a real good show.
fossil_digger Report This Comment Date: January 29, 2013 09:18PM
quasi Report This Comment Date: January 29, 2013 10:01PM
Then CSI is real, right?
pro_junior Report This Comment Date: January 30, 2013 08:23AM
Emergency! was real...
GAK67 Report This Comment Date: January 30, 2013 09:50AM
Definitely not CSI: Miami, q-man.
quasi Report This Comment Date: January 30, 2013 09:52AM
Miami isn't real.
jgoins Report This Comment Date: January 30, 2013 12:51PM
Damn, you mean Bones doesn't really work for the the Smithsonian and isn't
really married to Angel? My world is shattered. Next you are going to tell me
Finding Bigfoot and Ghost hunters isn't real.
Of course I know it is not real but there is some truth in their science and it
is not too hard to determine where the truth is.
You are right fossil if the test does not get a match it could indicate an
unknown species, but will be reported as inconclusive. I do believe there are
Sasquatches around, my wife saw one many years ago and I believe her description
of her encounter. I believe there existence will never be proven because there
will always be those who wouldn't even accept proof with a captured live
specimen.
fossil_digger Report This Comment Date: January 30, 2013 02:51PM
i used to watch wrastlin' when it was real.
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quasi Report This Comment Date: January 30, 2013 04:04PM
Professional wrestling, the original reality TV.
jgoins Report This Comment Date: January 31, 2013 11:43AM
Wrestling on TV has never been real, the only real wrestling is college
wrestling.
I wonder if Sasquatch are actually aliens on vacation from their home world.
quasi Report This Comment Date: January 31, 2013 02:09PM
Sometimes the sarcasm is just wasted.
jgoins Report This Comment Date: February 01, 2013 11:14AM
You forgot to use the sarcasm font.
