We all love our buddy Bigfoot, despite his annoying habit of never leaving DNA, dead bodies, bones, fossils, partially eaten kills, or old copies of "The Smart Sasquatch: A Guide to Avoiding Humans." Even skeptics like myself HOPE the Bigfoot hunters finally find something.
So I posted the Matt Bille Challenge on a cryptozoology group.
I don't suppose it means much in the days of million-dollar book advances, but I'll write a personal check for $1,000 USD to the lead author of the paper in Nature, Science, or Journal of Mammalogy describing the creature known as Sasquatch.
I specified those three journals only because this would be earthshaking news: the peer review process would be extremely thorough there. Also, the authors would ONLY submit to the most prestigious journals. That paper is not going to Bubba's Journal of Mammalogy and Cheeseburger Recipes. (Which I would totally read.)
I'll add $1,000 to the person who finds the specimen used as the basis for the paper. Good hunting!
2 comments:
50 years from now, AIs will be able to spontaneously create requested nature videos from drone footage on the fly for our viewing pleasure. IE you can sit down in front of your TV, think you want to see a video on bumblebees in Colorado, and the computer will be able to cut and paste a show together from drone footage of bumblebees in Colorado. They will be able to do that for everything from sheep to snow leopards, but not bigfoot. On the other hand they will also be able to create photorealistic fake bigfoot videos to our hearts content as well.
I think your 1000 is safe for now.
Also, where did you post this challenge?
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