And silvereagle: I’d say that if your response to this is that OK, then don’t expect science to find the big guy, then that will have to be the way it is. If he can evade the scientific method, we can’t touch him except when he wants us to. “Just believing” makes the sas an individual experience, not a confirmed species.

And my hunch is that the latter is doable.

Scientists are, of necessity, grounded in testable hypotheses. If a scientist can’t test it, there’s no good way for him to consider it.

Once the sas is identified, you can sell saucer rides with him for a dollar a pop, if he’ll go with it. I’d just like to stick to flesh-and-blood scientific confirmation. Hasn’t that been difficult enough?

I’m afraid i’m not convinced by that logic, and not convinced by the absolute lack of possible testing (i.e., how does one distinguish between those cases when a fourth-dimensional bigfoot is responsible and those cases where the hearer of the noise was simply mistaken, or simply missed the normal physical cause of the sound, and so on?).

However, i do defer to your knowledge of theoretical physics. Still not entirely clear what the new fourth-dimension is supposed to be though…?

Sorry THINGS, sometimes I write in shorthand thinking that everyone knows that TIME is not the 4th dimension anymore and has not been for at least since 1975, when world renown physicists at UC Berkeley brought scientist Stephen Hawking there on his sabbatical, then they kicked TIME to the 5th dimension and reserved the new 4th dimension specifically to explain the invisibility of BIGFOOT! It also slipped my mind that everyone does not know that higher dimensions implies INVISIBILITY. Consequently, when a branch breaks in the dark at 20 feet from you, you quickly flip up your 3rd generation night vision and verify HIGHER DIMENSIONS. Simple as that. No big mystery. No super secret technology required. Just simple logic using deductive reasoning. Happens to me all the time.

I understand there are those that have careers to lose if they stick their necks out and reveal their identity. I deeply regret our society makes anyone go underground and not allow someone to use the one thing that always defines us…to the very grave…our name defines us. It’s a sad statement that someone could actually lose their livelihood and all they have worked for by merely using their name.

All the above is just a reflection on using your own name in the face of ridicule and lots of times…animosity. I am very grateful to be able to use my name. I have no fear.

Angela Barth

In science what matters is the ideas and the arguments, not the names or the personalities (or rather, what SHOULD matter is the ideas and arguments…).

If LAShiel wants to write off twelve year-olds because they are twelve year olds thats her loss. I can tell her that I’ve met some twelve year olds who are whole lot more insightful, sensible, and knowledgeable than some adults.

Also- how does one giving one’s name ensure one isn’t a twelve year old?

How do I know you aren’t twelve years old Lisa?

I don’t. But get this- I don’t care.