Originally published at: This eerie underwater recording could be the Loch Ness Monster's heartbeat - Boing Boing
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Question asked from Allan Rose Hill…
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Poor nessie! No one believes in her!
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“Sounds more like bubbles of gas, methane maybe, escaping from the bottom of the loch.”
“So, it’s Nessie farts then? Get me the History Channel on line one!”
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No, I mean everyone should know that Nessie moved to Lake Superior!
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I’ve done a lot of hydrophone recording in various environments and bodies of water (rills, rivers, lakes, shore, blue water),
and this is a crummy recording in every respect, the methodology is god-awful, and there is absolutely nothing in this that is mistakable for a “heart beat.”
I have used hydrophones to record heartbeats and there is zero—zero—chance you would get a recording of even a very large animal’s heartbeat from the open water.
This is the junkiest of junk science. You should’t amplify this stuff, without clear /s
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High quality audio has a tendency to make cryptids go silent, just like high quality photography renders them invisible. They like to live in a world of static and blurry shadows.
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Occam would suggest you GTFO with this nonsense.
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I fixed your headline for you. You’re welcome.
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I don’t know if that’s Nessie’s heart … but I know that Nessie lives in my heart.
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Giant disembodied heart at the bottom of Loch Ness confirmed!
Whole classes of cryptids have disappeared with improved recording technologies. All the “rods/skyfish” went extinct, practically overnight, with the adoption of better video recorders. So sad!
I mean, sure, it isn’t but what if it was? Obviously it definitely, absolutely isn’t. But on the other hand…
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Strange object in the sky? Must be aliens!!
Strange noise in Loch Ness? Must be Nessie’s heartbeat!!
I wonder why the most outlandish and unlikely explanation (from prior probability) always becomes the obvious default one. Certainly with UFOs, the score so far is “proven mundane Terran stuff, close to 100%, proven space aliens 0%”, and that should tell us something.
As far as Loch Ness is concerned, people have been diligently scouring the loch for strange beasties for nearly a century now, using a wide variety of methods, with result “zilch”. If we stipulate the need for a gene-pool-supporting population of big animals which must come up for air every so often (assuming here that Nessie isn’t a fish, which is something that Nessie hunters seem to be largely in agreement about), that strongly suggests that there is nothing unusual to be found there.
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But does she believe in herself? That’s all that’s important…
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pretty sure I heard a TARDIS dematerialise at 00:20-30.
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The scientific method is quite clear about one off results like this. They need to be replicated independently before we can take them any further
Therefore the best course of action is for lots of people to come to the loch and attempt to replicate this result, and for the most rigorous results they should do so at all times and in all weather conditions, especially during the winter when it’s harder to fill the nearby hotel rooms.
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“Do I believe there’s a great big scary monster in the loch, what people see sometimes but never when there’s a film crew around? For the sake of this tour…yes.”
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