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From: Macros@altger.UUCP (Macros)
Newsgroups: sci.bio,sci.misc,sci.research
Subject: The Loch Ness Monster
Keywords: Nessie Loch Ness Hallucinations Elasmosaur
Message-ID: <861@altger.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jul 88 11:30:52 GMT
Reply-To: Macros@altger.UUCP (Macros)
Organization: Altos Computer Systems Munich
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Here is sometghing for the long summer holidays:

A short while ago I once again read something about the infamous Loch Ness
Monster. Unfortunatly it was an article dated back from 1977.

Does any one have something newer?
I'm not interested in flames from either the Believers or the Doubters.

What I'd especially like to know about is the photographic material
that was published in MITs Technology Review in Spring 1976 and the film
made in 1972 by the Jet Propulsion Labs, which are supposed to show fins 
and even a head of one or more 
creatures under water, but could just as well be the rudder of a sunken
ship ( a viking ship, with its dragon head on the bow was mentioned in
the article).

In another article in some scientific magazin (forgot which one) and some
time ago in german TV it was proposed that the dinosaurs might well have
been warmblooded animals. This could make it more propable that some of them
could survive in the cold depths of the Loch.

Some people (scientists?) say it could be an Elasmosaur a member of the
Plesiosaurus-Family. Others say it could be a gill or skin breathing
animal, maybe a giant eel or an amphibium, which would explain why it is
rarely seen.

The Believers always bring in the example of the Coelacanth of the Indian
Ocean when they want to proove that living fossiles do well exist, and
the recent discovery of the Megachasma-Shark has shown that very large
creatures can still be hidden in deep waters to this day.

Just thought to start a discussion before the holidays
I'm waiting for enlightement
Mike

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