FBI Records: Bigfoot (1976)
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My hopes pretty much hang on this:
(Especially since spreading rumors of a monster in the woods would be a great way to scare people away from your illegal drug operation)
Straight out of Scooby Doo, wonder if there are any real occurrences of this kind of thing.
Yeah it's really funny. But beyond that, there's nothing mean or of substance in it. Most political ads cannot claim the former and try to hide the latter, I think ^_^
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When someone asks, "What do people do where you live?"
I reply, "In the winter they take outhouses and race them down the street while drinking an exorbitant amount of alcohol."
The response is always golden.
I think The X-Files also really only worked because of it's context and time in history -- there was a right-wing fringe that was terrifyingly paranoid of a Democrat in office after more than a decade of Reagan & Bush (the first movie aped some of that imagery, in a somewhat tone-deaf manner), and the idea of conspiracy hadn't yet morphed from Soviets and aliens into birthers and truthers.
The only exception I can think of is Breaking Bad.
Shows were designed to onboard viewers at any point in the series. This would enable shows to appear in random order across multiple networks and viewers would just accept them as they were.
Shows which juggled long term serial arcs while staying accessible to the random viewer seemed to be viewed retrospectively as the best of that era. Shows like X-Files, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Babylon 5, etc.
Shows which were purely episodic such as Star Trek: TNG or old Doctor Who don't hold up quite as well. They're still enjoyable episode to episode, but there's something missing that we've become accustomed to in modern television. Perhaps if you feel the rose colored glasses starting to slip into place in the future, you could look back on some of those shows that didn't age as well.
We've thrown out syndication as a concept, so what we're left with is almost lazy writing since they don't have to put a bow on every episode after exactly 46 minutes.
But ultimately I think there are those that feel that the 90's were the pinnacle of Hollywood. I recently read an article claiming '99 to be the best year in cinema. We're just living in a perpetual era of disruption and it's going to take a few more decades until people consistently figure out the new successful formulas that are unbeatable until the technology fundamentally shifts again.
It does seem to me that the number of conspiracy theories went way down lately (which is surprising, giving the proliferation of tech), whereas there is clearly stuff that's being kept a secret well, e.g. we never heard about the stealth Blackhawks until the raid in Pakistan, and only because it failed badly. Or nobody talks about plasma weapons, yet they got an effective prototype a decade ago iirc, and the project stopped reporting any news (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MARAUDER).
* Always more stealth planes, likely large drones today
* Whatever that little Air Force space shuttle was doing
* Hypersonic planes/drones/missiles
* Disturbingly "smart" missiles/weapons/drones
* Small fusion reactors already exist in production
* Quantum computing already exists in production
* RSA can be cracked on demand
* Spy satellites can see way more than would make you comfortable
* Power armor
* Novel propulsion methods
The funny thing is that this is the most disturbing one by far if true.
Some of those are almost a given to me - classified stealth planes, hypersonic missiles, sats having incredible resolution, power armor, "smart"-er than known missiles.
Long to short, homo sapiens co-existed with other human-esque species. The idea that primitive HSs were somehow able to entirely extermination these other species feels like a pretty high expectation to me. Any survivors - and certainly there would be some - would have been able to do so because the ability to hide, run, not be found, etc.
Today's Bigfoots could be offspring of the survivers. Unlikely. But certainly, in theory, possible.
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.
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.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2018/08/2...
Reluctantly upvoted :-)