Plenty of reason to be skeptical about what's seems to be an unbearable hoax
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from:msnbc.comWoolly mammoth caught on video? It looks fishy
Seeded on Thu Feb 9, 2012 4:00 PM EST (msnbc.com)
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Tin foil hats must somehow interfere with a person's ability to focus a camera. :/
Eetz, Russia! I buy blackmarket Beta-Cam for 5 rubles.
Two clues: the 'SUN' and 'Russia'. Ever since the collapse of communism even 'PRAVDA' has become a source of entertaiment, with its desperate plight to survive in a profit-oriented society with lots of competition. I recommend the English-language version is great 'crack-for-the-psyche', full of conspiracy theories and tales of Kentucky's blue mountain people!
We have that crap too, as we stand by the check-out lines in supermarket: One-eyed monsters and woolly mammoths! Info-tainment for the gullible and weakest links! Suckers who who wouldn't ask: "Hey... where is the rest of the herd?"
Sometimes, I have to marvel at how we evolved into a dominant species....well, some people still haven't, I guess, but I mean as a collective whole. This video is quite obviously a bear with a large fish in it's mouth, blurry or not. Did they think people were really that gullible? Seriously?
But then I think back to the office meeting I just left where, on the way out, someone complained about a mouse in their office and I jokingly said they needed something to turn loose to eat the mouse...which led to a co-worker pointing out that I had a pet snake at home. Immediately, another co-worker went all wide-eyed and cautioned me with a story of some relative that once had a snake (judging from the description, likely a harmless 4 ft. Ball Python) that kept getting loose at night, and they kept waking to find it coiled next to them in the bed...so they asked a vet about the behaviour...and the vet warned they had to get rid of it immediately because the snake was obviously guaging their size and slowly stretching itself over time in preparation for eating them. And the co-worker ended with, "I know that vet was right, you know, because you hear about snakes like that in the news all the time!" I had to restrain myself from doing the face-palm, or ask if they knew where the National Enquirer's 'Bat-Child' was hiding.
That's funny... try listening to 'Coast to Coast AM' sometime. You hear things like:
"So have you ever been taken to the mother ship?"
"Oh yes, all the time!"
I think it's one reason people in other countries hate us so much... we are so effing stupid, yet we live so well.
Lol Coast to Coast AM is awesome. When I used to work night shifts I would listen to it all the time.
My fav is the guy who claimed that he was able to teleport himself anywhere at any time.
Makes more sense than Sasquatch.
Did they ask him to teleport himself to the radio station?
Bear with fish.....no doubt
I watched the video before I read the article and that was my first impression too.
Yep. Bear with fish.
I had no idea wooly mammoths had silver trunks...how fashionable.
Yep...bear with fish.
IN SOVIET RUSSIA FISH BLURS BEAR
wait...
Also if it was a mammoth or relative of an elephant, I wouldn't think it would leave its trunk underwater while crossing. Obviously it is a short segment, but unless it is drinking water.. wouldn't it be holding it up a bit?
Maybe it's Manny and Sid looking for Diego? Skrat cannot be far away.
12 megapixel, auto focus, auto exposure, and the saucer heads STILL manage to create blurry videos. I look at all those settings on the dial, and not one of them is labled 'blurry hoax'.
"Though the animal is almost certainly not a woolly mammoth, one final intriguing mystery remains: Where did the photographer find a video camera able to take such remarkably low-quality images?"
There's a gift shop on Loch Ness that sells them.
Even the cheapest smart phone nowadays has better video quality than that.
Clearly, a fish has caught a bear with its tail. Happens all the time...
It's obviously Obama, probably up to no good.
Of course a majority of people who have NEVER seen or observed a brown or grizzly bear in the wild would try to say otherwise.
It is a bear, not some extinct mammal
Looks like a bear with a fish to me.
Whatever it is, it must share DNA with Bigfoot - the part of DNA that causes blurriness.
It's not a bear with a fish, a fish even if dead would not flop around like that, also a "mammoth's" trunk would not be limply dragging in the water either. It looks like a couple of folks in a suit and the reason the video is so short is that it appears like the "creature's" front legs were starting to loose footing and stumble at the end.
However, the cloaked UFO landing in the woods right behind the "mammoth" was absolutely real, Fizzbit from the planet Mondor told me so in a dream...
Ok, ok, so... let's just pretend a minute here...
Let's say, just for the sake of argument, that this actually IS a wooly mammoth.
So what? It's a hairy elephant. Big deal. It's not like the mammoths are going to suddenly pop out of the woodwork and take over the world. And it's not as if humanity hasn't wiped out enough species already that we couldn't possibly support a new one (or even an old one back from the grave).
We're already pretty sure we can clone them back into existence, so even if this were a mammoth, I assert again: so what?
Now, does this mean I think this IS a :10 video of a wooly not-so-mammoth? No, I don't. But even if it were... it wouldn't be that big of a deal.
Much like, if we were to point our telescopes out into space, and find a fully inhabited world some 10,000 light years away.. it's not as if we would ever get there in the span of many human generations, so, yeah. So what?
If someone could invent a telescope capable of seeing that, it would be a pretty big deal though
Mammoths are common in that part of Siberia, but I think that was an endangered fish.
Sure, the telescope would be a huge deal - unfortunately it wouldn't likely be pointed out at space, but pointed at the ground, to see what other nations and our own citizens were doing.
Look at the movie - what you can see of it, the animal's shoulders are not swaying, as they would do in walking. And how do you get a camera to make such a poor quality image - well, if you put water on the lens or had it shooting through a translucent film....even I could make a movie clearer than that.
I think it looks like a person's hands with too much time on them
The video is a hoax. If you pay attention to a few things besides the blur effect applied you can see that it is most certainly fake. First of all look at the way the water is moving in relation to the creature. There is a standing wave of water that stays near the hindquarters of the animal. The water has been rotoscoped (the film altered frame by frame) and the white cap has been copied and pasted (or rubber stamped in photoshop terms) frame by frame to make the creature layer look more believable. Since this effect is very difficult to pull off (hydrodynamics are notoriously hard to recreate in post production) the entire image has a blur filter. The blur and film grain filters help to make the film look old and emulate aged camera equipment. also pay attention to the shadows or lack thereof. try a little harder folks!
Clearly a fake. Obviously this is a Mastodon, not a Mammoth. Mammoths are not near so blurry.
The "trunk" isn't even the same color as the rest of the animal. The "mammoth's" head is shaped exactly like a bear's, as is its body.
Either it's a mammoth born with a bear's body, no ears, no tusks, and a trunk that protrudes from its mouth and is the color and shape of a salmon... or it's a bear grabbing lunch.
Of course...a mammoth's tusks wouldn't be swinging back and forth as it walked like ...you know...FISH hanging from that BEAR's mouth. Really, anyone who has seen a video of a bear carrying a salmon will recognize the movement of the fish and the way the bear moves.
Why would a mammoth be wandering around in the open in that stream anyway? So no one would have ever, ever seen him wandering in the open that way? Where are the others? Oh really, I have a really open mind, but that is a bear carrying a fish...lol. Siberian mammoth??? Good try, fella.
Matty told Hatty about a thing she saw.
Had two big horns and a wooly jaw.
Wooly bully, wooly bully. what a sham....... a Sam The Sham
It appears to be a photo of the "Michigan Dogman" carrying a piece of the "Icelandic River Worm" in his mouth after being chased out of the woods by a Bigfoot.
Looks like a bear with a large fish in it's mouth to me.
Who can tell from that poor video? Just for kicks, I looked at some elephant video with the animals crossing water. The leg and trunk motion particularly are like modern elephants in similar behavior. I think it's a hoax, but that elephant footage, as opposed to bear footage, was probably used. It should be an easy matter to find footprints and other signs of such animals if they really do exist in Siberia.
Well it's too sure footed and the "animation" or dropped in footage is too repetitive. It's obviously a Bantha!
Why did the wooly mammoth cross the river?
His mother wouldn't let him cross the road.
Next?
Why did the Mammoth cross the river?
'Cause chickens hadn't evolved yet.
(they probably had, but hey, we're working on bad jokes here)
Actually, the real mystery is why did anybody waste time on this story as "news"?
It looks like a bear carrying a large fish to me
This whole story is a hoax with a little out of focus thrown in.
Clearly a hoax
The suggestion is not impossible. Siberia is really big and there are plenty of places uninhabited by humans out there. However, it's not like a mammoth is a small animal and could hide out there for thousands of years with no one seeing it. Not to mention that there would need to be a herd of them and not a lone mammoth. So show me the herd, otherwise it's probably some sort of hoax.
I want to believe, I want to believe. However...
this would be a good one for fox news
With a creationist spin?
I can't believe Fox hasn't shown it already!