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Comment by JKCalhoun | Hacker News Reader

Where is the bigfoot skeleton?

Physical evidence is king when someone proposes something seemingly fantastic.

With (almost) everyone carrying a camera in their pocket these days one would expect to see new Bigfoot recordings posted weekly.

We have found that indeed blacks do get shot more often in police confrontations than whites.

But UFOs? Bigfoot?

Not so much.

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We have found the skeletons, and we call them Gigantopithecus, not Bigfoot :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigantopithecus

So we know for sure really huge apes, possibly as tall as 3 meters for sure used to exist. I'm not saying they still do, they probably don't. But it's not as big of mental hurdle dor me to clear, to consider if they have lasted, than for example, to believe in flying saucers from other solar systems.

I don't think it's fair to mention the police confrontations without all the facts / context. Simply put, based on the reporting by The Washington Post, the situation is not so clear-cut:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2018/08/2...

Mother Nature is good at keeping her house clean. Especially if Bigfoot likes to live far away from people, as they are purported to do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uHJkGKcbKo

Where is DB Cooper? I think you underestimate how vast the wilderness is, as well as the fact that the species would have survived because it's pushed itself further into that depth.

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