I read that headline in his voice.

They do if they are Nepalese who live at 15,000 feet and want to attract tourist dollars.

Why is it we never get to see this "convincing evidence"

Must be a creationist

When I first listened to the "Planet Earth" series on television, it was the version for American audiences, narrated by Sigourney Weaver. I thought she did a very good job, and commented to a few friends about the overall quality of the films and narration. One bought it for me as a birthday gift a little later, but unknowingly purchased from Amazon the David Attenborough version. At first it was jarring to my ears, and I even thought about exchanging it, but now, if I turn on the television and hear Sigourney Weaver narrating, I feel like I'm listening to a dressed-up child.

Which is to say that, while I may not absolutely *believe* David Attenborough when he explains that Yetis exist, I'd really enjoy hearing him say it.

Grouchy Old Bear: Must be a creationist

While I take your point, he's very much not a creationist. In fact, he gets creationist hate mail:

"They always mean beautiful things like hummingbirds. I always reply by saying that I think of a little child in east Africa with a worm burrowing through his eyeball. The worm cannot live in any other way, except by burrowing through eyeballs. I find that hard to reconcile with the notion of a divine and benevolent creator."

Sorry but no they don't.

GIS for "yeti believer":



/could be one on vacation I guess

Pocket Ninja: When I first listened to the "Planet Earth" series on television, it was the version for American audiences, narrated by Sigourney Weaver. I thought she did a very good job, and commented to a few friends about the overall quality of the films and narration. One bought it for me as a birthday gift a little later, but unknowingly purchased from Amazon the David Attenborough version. At first it was jarring to my ears, and I even thought about exchanging it, but now, if I turn on the television and hear Sigourney Weaver narrating, I feel like I'm listening to a dressed-up child.

Which is to say that, while I may not absolutely *believe* David Attenborough when he explains that Yetis exist, I'd really enjoy hearing him say it.

i thought sigourney weaver's narration on that was godawful. and i'm a fan of hers. it was so lifeless and flat - and it was written with little attenborough-esque asides and jokes that just didn't resonate with her voice. i haven't heard the attenborough one yet, but i'm sure it's superior.

Huh. I never knew that Yetis have size ten tread toes.

"No one does that as a joke" is exactly why someone would do it.

The Barking Duck nailed it, lets attract tourists. Look what a monster did for tourism at a backwater lake in Scotland?

So:

a) What could a ~60 kilo bipedal omnivore live off of in such high-altitude ecology?
b) What density of population should be supportable?
c) What is the density of human settlement?
d) What is the difference between (b) and (c)?

mr_a: "No one does that as a joke" is exactly why someone would do it.

The Barking Duck nailed it, lets attract tourists. Look what a monster did for tourism at a backwater lake in Scotland?


Yes, but your average tourist slob has no problem driving to a lake and snapping a few pictures. The B&B is a few miles a way and they can go back to biatching about the local cuisine in no time. Usually people who plan on climbing to 19,000 feet have something in mind other than Yeti hunting and your average tourist isn't going to make it to that altitude.

That said, someone could certainly be joking around but such a thing isn't going to attract tourists.

The loch ness monster is a bad photograph of a circus elephant taking a bath.

Nineteen thousand what?

What is the unit of measurement here?

I rest my case.

Show me the body or STFU

Wow, a 19,000 ft footprint, that's one huge yeti.

<b><a href="http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=4239911IDComment=491368 71#c49136871" target="_blank">abb3w</a>:</b> <i>What could a ~60 kilo bipedal omnivore live off of in such high-altitude ecology?</i>

People who ask too many questions.

Are you kidding?

Thats the perfect Yeti Joke, because it gets people like attenborogh talking about it.

Now if they found miles of foot prints in areas where a human would have trouble walking, and scat, and a lair....then we can talk about it. It always seems like they only findlike two good footprints in a muddy area and nothing else.

SphericalTime: Huh. I never knew that Yetis have size ten tread toes.

Nice Calvin & Hobbes reference.

abb3w: So:

a) What could a ~60 kilo bipedal omnivore live off of in such high-altitude ecology?
b) What density of population should be supportable?
c) What is the density of human settlement?
d) What is the difference between (b) and (c)?

my density has popped me to you

sullyman: Sorry but no they don't.

If I had to make a judgment, I'd go with Attenborough's years and years of experience as a naturalist over your dumbass 5 words of skepticism.

Being that I just so happen to be a Yeti I am enjoying this thread a lot. Stop making fun of my foot size and maybe I will let myself be photographed.

//Weeeee!!!

hobbes0022: Wow, a 19,000 ft footprint, that's one huge yeti.

Or 9,500 average Yetis in a conga line.

Two words:
BIGFOOT POOP!
Bigfoot "investigators" are unique among mammalian biologists in that they seem to have NO interest in the scat of the animal they are studying.

I see bear shiat in the woods any time I go walking. Do NOT try to tell me that something 700lbs would not leave obvious stool.

I'm sorry, guys, I was just trying to bone up on my climbing skills. Geez, you don't have to call me names.

Also, I'm pretty sure there are yetis in the Winterpine Forest.

/kill me.
//no, really.

That is all

Liked this from the Sun comments:

There is definitely one in 10 Downing Street!

It does exist. And it's delicious

/hot for Yeti

Nobody would do that as a joke, especially not really drunk mountaineers coming down after a climb.

They were just filming the new Who.

buster_v: Two words:
BIGFOOT POOP!
Bigfoot "investigators" are unique among mammalian biologists in that they seem to have NO interest in the scat of the animal they are studying.

I see bear shiat in the woods any time I go walking. Do NOT try to tell me that something 700lbs would not leave obvious stool.

Maybe the population is so small that there is very little scat to be found.

Like early human population for example, in all of Europe there were like 50,000 homo-sapiens and around 50,000 Neanderthals just some xxx,000 years ago. In all that area it may have been hard to find human poop. Population groups were generally less than a dozen or so members.

Now say, in all of Asia there are only 100 or so Yeti. might be hard to find that poop.

/does not believe

This guy is 82 so I doubt he was up there himself. How does he know the picture was taken at 19,000ft? The truth is, it's too late to prove any of these things. Everyone has PhotoShop and everyone has a camera in their phone. There isn't a picture or piece of video that you can proved hasn't been faked.

maybe the yeti bury their poop

/poop

enjoyduff: It does exist. And it's delicious

/hot for Yeti

/drools

knoxvelour: maybe the yeti bury their poop

/poop

So what you're saying is...

The Yeti is actually a house cat?

The Yeti mystery has pretty well been cracked.

There is a large nocturnal bear, stands about 5' tall at the shoulder and weighs 200 Lb. full grown, he avoids people and is somewhat of a sissy; he won't fight unless you force his hand.

Unfortunately, if you stumble into one in the dead of night, you will get bit, slapped around and scratched up, it is likely to scare the hell out of you.

If it is dark and you can't see, your imagination is likely to run wild.

And that is why so fewmet the Yeti.

LordOfThePings

They were just filming the new Who.

Wow, real yetis in the wild!

I hear if you feed them nothing but milkshakes, over time their eyes enlarge and their fur turns purple.

FarkinNortherner
"They always mean beautiful things like hummingbirds. I always reply by saying that I think of a little child in east Africa with a worm burrowing through his eyeball. The worm cannot live in any other way, except by burrowing through eyeballs. I find that hard to reconcile with the notion of a divine and benevolent creator."

♪♫
All things dull and ugly,
All creatures short and squat,
All things rude and nasty,
The Lord God made the lot.
Each little snake that poisons,
Each little wasp that stings,
He made their brutish venom.
He made their horrid wings.

All things sick and cancerous,
All evil great and small,
All things foul and dangerous,
The Lord God made them all.

Each nasty little hornet,
Each beastly little squid--
Who made the spikey urchin?
Who made the sharks? He did!

All things scabbed and ulcerous,
All pox both great and small,
Putrid, foul and gangrenous,
The Lord God made them all.

Amen. ♫

I hate when otherwise respectable and credible people make woo-woo claims like this, as it gives undue credence to this type of nonsense, and lowers their own esteem in the eyes of the scientific community.

These people have no connection to the scientific community.

buster_v: BIGFOOT POOP!

Yeah, and also apparently they have no interest in hair, bone, carcasses, unblurry photographs, bite marks on carrion, and all the other shiat they can't ever find because it does not exist.

buster_v: Two words:
BIGFOOT POOP!
Bigfoot "investigators" are unique among mammalian biologists in that they seem to have NO interest in the scat of the animal they are studying.

on the contrary, suspected yeti poop and hair fibers have been found. the hair was sent for DNA testing and came back as a "primate species as yet unknown to science". seen it on a nature documentary, not a tin-foil hat "read it on the internet so it must be true" website.

also for those that can't figure it out the reason a joke footprint at 19,000 feet is improbable is because when you leave a fake footprint you want to do it where someone can actual find it. that's not likely in places that might see only a few humans a year, as it is in the middle of nowhere, nearly inaccessible, and only a few thousand feet short of the "death zone" where humans need oxygen and can't acclimate.

although that doesn't rule out a hoax by the people who discover the print or their associates.

Spotter: ...Course once you've seen one Yeti you've seen them all.

Interviewer: And have you seen them all?

Spotter: Well I've seen one. Well a little one... a picture of a... I've heard about them.