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[westpark]

http://main.aol.com/2012/02/09/woolly-mammoth-videotaped-in-siber
ia_n_1269116.html

Whether real or not -- an interesting video.

Even if this is fake it wouldn't shock me if there are. Siberia is a BBBBIIIIGGGG land mass with huge portions of it never even been touched by man. So who knows.

[capt_taco]

I'm pretty sure that was part of a Powerade commmercial.

[westpark]

Japanese women in bikinis were riding on them instead of on the mechanical bull.

[PiginthecityBlue]

Bear catching fish?

[crapshot2]

that reminds me, I should play some skyrim

[Invida]

It's a Bammoth.

[MysticJhn]

The comments on YouTube seem to think it's a bear with a fish in it's mouth.
I'm in agreement with that opinion.

I would never think this was a video of a wooly mammoth, even if I knew for a fact they never went extinct.
It doesn't seem to have tusks, something that's rather prominent on a wooly mammoth's face.

[PiginthecityBlue]

Obvious explanation is aliens.

[mrgreen42]

Is there some law out there that says any pictures or video with 'bigfoot', 'aliens', 'mammoths', 'Elvis', etc. have to be out of focus?

[ShowUsYourTaint]

There shouldn't even be a controversy, it's very clearly a bear with a fish.  Out of focus, but you can still see the color difference between said bear and said fish.  Whereas a mammoth trunk would be the same color as the rest of the animal, and it wouldn't be walking with it's trunk submerged, and it would have tusks.

[Samurai_Champloo_Fan]

If they find a frozen giant nearby, then I'll believe it...

[MysticJhn]

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mrgreen42 wrote:

Is there some law out there that says any pictures or video with 'bigfoot', 'aliens', 'mammoths', 'Elvis', etc. have to be out of focus?

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Most people in general s*ck at taking pictures.

So when they see something that's a surprise and try to pull out a camera quickly before it's out of sight,

you'd be lucky if this random person got a good shot.

It's not like birdwatching where you know where to find them and are prepared to photograph them.

Usually the clear pics tend to fall under the "too good to be true" category.

In this case, it's just some jerk filming an obvious bear, and is getting their 15 minutes of fame.

I'd like to think that if you actually saw a mammoth walking around, it wouldn't be too hard to focus on or just get closer, even for the worst of photographers.

[ShowUsYourTaint]

I don't think the problem is that people suck at taking pictures, you can see whether a picture/video is in focus through the camera itself and it takes like half a second to fix it.  The problem is that things that are in focus are not going to make people think a normal thing is some supernatural or extraterrestrial creature.  You have to create some level of doubt where none would otherwise exist.

[PiginthecityBlue]

I may be mistaken, but isn't the Mammoth's DNA code 98% mapped out? It may be possible to clone one, but I doubt scientists would just toss it in Siberia without anyones knowledge.

[westpark]

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PiginthecityBlue wrote:

Bear catching fish?

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That's actually what I thought it was.

Who knows. Its prob. CGI'ed for all I know.

[Buddyroe274]

Me too.......I haven't tried to kill a mammoth since level 10.........I know I can destroy one now.

[Tempty_McHotstuff]

it looks like a bear with a really big fish, but i always hope these videos are real. i mean i have hope that some animals didn't die out or there's things in the world we haven't seen yet.

i believe in the lochness monster, dammit.

[Pero8P]

mammoths have big ass tusks.

[covered_in_sponges]

I used to kill camps of mammoths and giants on expert with my nord.

Haven't played her in a while though, as she's retired and all.

My orc could probably take a single mammoth, but I haven't tried.

[greyshirt]

yeah, that's fake. 

[Buddyroe274]

I avoided this thread because i knew it would be fake.......Then reading the replies confirmed that notion, but now I've actually watched it.............Who the hell thought it was a mammoth?........Is it supposed to be a baby mammoth?........I knew better than to click that.

[MysticJhn]

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ShowUsYourTaint wrote:

I don't think the problem is that people #### at taking pictures, you can see whether a picture/video is in focus through the camera itself and it takes like half a second to fix it.  The problem is that things that are in focus are not going to make people think a normal thing is some supernatural or extraterrestrial creature.  You have to create some level of doubt where none would otherwise exist.

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While what you're saying does apply to this bear eating a fish, I can't apply it bad photographs of ufos, bigfoot, etc.

Heck, if I told you to walk through a trail in the woods and at some point I'm going to throw a frisbee across the trail,

do you think you'd get a clear picture of it before it darts back into the woods on the other side of the trail if I don't

tell you at what point on the trail it's being thrown?

Now do that when you you don't have your camera at the ready and aren't expecting to see anything unusual.

I'm not saying taking a picture is hard, but when most people try to take a quick picture of something unexpected, the odds are against them catching a good picture of it. Heck, if it was me personally, the odds would be against me even having a camera on me.

Again, this blurry footage of a bear is either someone too stupid to focus on an unmoving object and believes their own stupidity or someone trying to fake a mammoth sighting. This particular time, it would be far too easy to actually focus on it.

[my-name-here]

i don't know if i believe this thing is a mammoth. but to claim you know exactly what it is, isn't any better than claiming it's a mammoth. it's a distant, out of focus, poorly taken, short video. nobody can legitimately claim they know exactly what's happening here.

[ShowUsYourTaint]

It's quite a lot better than claiming it's a mammoth.  Sure there's no way to tell for sure because of the aforementioned problems, but bear with fish is about a billion times more plausible than mammoth based on the evidence presented in the video combined with all the other things we know about history and the region.  What is foolish is jumping immediately to the most fantastical conclusion based off of shoddy evidence rather than the most likely explanation, is the point, there are huge orders of magnitude in probability separating these two conclusions and they are not suddenly equally valid because a video is a little bit fuzzy.  When you closely examine the zoomed in video you may not be able to distinguish every feature but you can see enough to say that it's definitely not a mammoth and a bear is way more likely given how many of them are out there and how freaking huge they get.

[Ominotigre]

Cooking with dog.