Dan Taylor of South Carolina has
built a submarine which he plans to launch in Loch Ness this spring, hoping to find Nessie and collect tissue samples from her, for scientific analysis. The media, of course, are loving this, first playing up the eccentric enthusiast angle, and now playing up the Nessie-fans-outraged-by-the-thought-of-someone-harpooning-the-monster angle. But if you watch the video broadcast that
accompanies this article, you realize that it's not so much the idea of somebody harpooning poor Nessie that worries local residents of Loch Ness. It's the idea of some guy at large in the Loch with a harpoon-equipped submarine that concerns them. What if he harpoons a swimming tourist by accident, they point out. The media also love pointing out, with a sly wink, that hunting Nessie is illegal because she's protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act, which is true enough. If someone ever does find her, they can't kill her.
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What do you think? Is Nessie real? Alex, didn't you go there? Did you see or "feel" anything? :gulp:
Hey, if the guy can't find Nessie, so what? He still has his own little wicked-cool mini-sub. Who wouldn't want their own mini-sub? I'd build an underground dock like I was Bruce Wayne on the side of my sprawling estate and take party guests for sub cruises on my lake, wouldn't you?
"I think most people know by now that Nessie is a magical creature, mostly spirit, who phases between dimensions, which is why she can't be found--she's usually in the spirit world. It's in the handbook that came with my tin hat."
No, silly. Nessie is a Canadian who invented an incredibly cumbersome bear-proof suit which ABSOLUTELY PROVES beyond a shadow of a doubt that she also invented a machine that allows you to see through solid objects. Hey, you can't absolutely prove that she ISN'T, right? Well, there you go!
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Do you really think that his finding nothing in the lake will prove that the monster doesn't exist? I know of at least two other times that submarine-equipped "scientists" have explored the lake looking for Nessie and come up with a fat ZERO. Yet people persist in believing that there's something there. No one can ever prove to the true believers satisfaction that there is no Nessie.
It can't be as easy to build a mini-sub as you night think, though, or they would be in mass production somewhere.
>>>as the Sunday Sport proved may years ago, the Loch Ness Monster is a Nazi U-Boat.<<<
Wouldn't it be great if he fired on Nessie, and she *returned fire*? Ha!
>>>Do you really think that his finding nothing in the lake will prove that the monster doesn't exist?<<<
For the sake of the tourist-dependant economies of the nearby towns, I hope not. After all, can you imagine anyone spending a week on a freezing, gloomy, god-forsaken northern Scottish lakeside if there weren't a chance of seeing a monster?
What do you mean, "contraindicative"? Of what?
Nessie has never done anything to anyone because she doesn't exist, geeze. 🙄
Thanks,
Matt