Cryptids

[Statler Waldorf]

… at least it is more likely than god existing.

Out of curiosity, how do you know this?

You can tell cryptozoology isn't a real science because it focuses on the fabulous. It's regular zoologists that actually discover new animal species.

That’s not how cryptozoology is defined at all, it’s simply the search for undiscovered or previously thought to be extinct organisms. I realize you guys are always trying to kick people you disagree with out of the science club but words have meanings.

It's this African water dinosaur, myths of which have been bouncing around since the nineties. When I was in primary school, my school's library had a little selection of videotapes you could borrow, and as a little kid fascinated by dinosaurs there was this one tape about 'em I used to borrow over and over. It had a segment on Mokele-mbembe in it, so just reading the name again hits my nostalgia pretty hard. They had a blurry, Nessie-style photo of it and a recording of its roar.

It was awesome. Man, I would fuckin' love it if some cryptids were real.

Yes! Glad I was able to take you down nostalgia lane! It’s very interesting to me because you had Africans who had no idea what a dinosaur even was drawing pictures of giant sauropods (sightings of the creatures actually pre-date the scientific discovery of dinosaurs in the 19th Century).

I don't really understand how we're supposed to gauge our percentage on these things.. If there isn't any evidence for something (and blurry polaroids, dubious 'footprints', and that-thing-my-grandma-said-she-saw-30-years-ago don't count as evidence) then why would anyone say one of these specific myths exist/existed?

We’re just gauging our suspicions on the likelihood of any of them actually existing. Personally, I feel it is far more likely that Bigfoot exists than the Jersey Devil for example.

I think it's entirely possible for alien intelligence to have evolved, but I don't think they've visited the Earth. I mean, you've flown across the galaxy to visit fucking Nevada? That's hardly intelligence in action.

Be reasonable, not just to visit Nevada, they also make some very pretty patterns in farmers’ fields!