Just askin'..
Hey, the Yeti got me drunk.
Depends entirely on the amount of power that the creatures have.
I just had a thought: the caricature of a bigfoot/yeti/yowie is a big hairy ape-man with long arms that stay by their sides even when they run. This links with the proven idea that neanderthals didn't have shoulder joints which enabled them to throw a spear! (Wow, I really am heading for title of biggest crackpot)So the Yeti, etc. is a Neanderthal?
Swarm said:
Damn yetis. But its the aliens and their anal probes you really have to watch out for.
the proven idea that neanderthals didn't have shoulder joints which enabled them to throw a spear!
Are you sure about that?
There is evidence that their anatomy meant that they couldn't throw spears as well as humans. This in itself would be a decisive advantage in any early encounters between neanderthals and our ancestors. BTW the article states:Not really. The study, which has a very small sample of n=3, shows that they didn't throw spears, not that they couldn't throw spears. Constant throwing results in shoulder changes in the "throwing arm" in people like pitchers. If you were to examin me, it would pe obvious I've not done a lot of overhand throwing with one arm too.
http://www.physorg.com/news151326825.html
But the key developments were the bow and the atlatl, which the N. never made to our knowledge. It should also be noted not all humans developed the bow and/or the atlatl either.
Anthropologists agree, Neanderthal could throw spears short distances, but never graduated to the use of bow and arrows or spear-throwing technologies. Some 40,000 years ago, modern humans trekked out of Africa to Europe taking their bows and arrows with them for fishing, hunting and warfare.
Swarm said:
That's nothing. Have you ever seen what they shove up there during the anal probe?
I'm glad to hear this common sense approach.
Commie pinko comrade max has a point. Rights are historically given first to those willing to organize and fight for them.
I saw a TV programme (Stephen Fry In America, BBC) where the ancient redwood forests of northern California and Oregon are under threat from logging. The 'tree-huggers' search for the tree vole, which is an endangered species, and so automatically a 10km radius of forest is protected when a nest is found. Also, an eyewitness gave an emotional account of his sighting at relatively close range of a 7-9ft tall sasquatch (he was fearful for the safety of his family). He thinks that the reason that bigfoot is not officially recognised to exist is purely economical. "Look what happened with the protection laws of the little spotted owl". It means that vast tracts of land become protected by law, which is last thing that the powerful logging companies want.If the Yeti take over Russia, then they will obviously have more human-rights than the Russians. Baron is right, the ones with power appoint human rights in interests of self-preservation.
Are you trying to be serious?Yowies, Bigfoot and other such creatures are protected under the Unicorn Act.