I love science and some stories are really cool. There’s a story today about a 50+ year old mystery. Mummified remains from 1948 plane crash identified details how the science of DNA and a lot of teamwork helped identify the human remains of a plane crash a long time ago. The particularly neat thing about this story is solving this only became possible because new technology came along. Things change so fast these days; if you can’t solve a problem today, sleep on it and maybe things will work out tomorrow.
But sometimes, science stories don’t make any sense. This week, two men from Georgia held a press conference claiming they’d found Bigfoot. DNA again also played a role here. But instead of showing anything conclusive, it failed to prove the big hairy beast (which no one is allowed to see via video or photograph) is anything unusual. I mean come on, they have the thing in the refrigerator. If you’re going to claim you’ve got something the world MUST see, at least give us a picture that doesn’t look likes Clarence Beaks. The thing is dead. Get a decent picture! It’s not like it’s running away!
Here’s another odd story: Huge gatherings of whale sharks discovered in Gulf of Mexico. I’ll quote the article, “We have lots of reports of 30 or 50 animals in one place,” said Hoffmayer, a scientist with the University of Southern Mississippi’s Gulf Coast Research Laboratory in Ocean Springs, Miss. “They are obviously gathering for a reason. But right now we are not sure what that is, or how they know to show up at these spots.” Dude, people do this all the time. It’s called a Flash Mob. There are documented examples of this.
The whale sharks are probably all out for sushi or a pick-up football game.
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