The Loch Ness Monster

JackM_79

So some guy looking at google earth reckons he can see old Nessie?

http://www.independent.ie/business/technology/is-the-loch-ness-monster-on-google-earth-1869523.html

My name is URL

It does look like some sort of creature

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=57.214375,-4.5705903&z=18&t=h&hl=en

rossie1977

below the surface, yeah right :rolleyes: loch ness is pitch black, nothing can be seen below the surface

mikom

Looks more like one of the monsters sperm.

daveyboy_1ie

A boat?

gerTheGreat

So what you're saying is that it's not a speed boat and its wake?

G_R

looks like a big ass jelly fish

spoofilyj

Might have been placed on the image by Google to see who might find it?

Cant see the image clearly as I'm logging on through a VPN to my PC in Dublin and the filter dosent allow news here.
Looks like a boat to me ... Speeding through the water...

RandolphEsq

I, for one, welcome our Loch Ness overlords

Degsy

Loch ness isnt physically old enough to have a population of prehistoric creatures.
Also IF a plesiosaur or something had manged to crawl there in the last 10,000 years(70 million years after they became extinct)..the glacier that swept the lough several thousand years back would've obliterated them.
The Monster is nothing more that a folk tale illstrated with hoaxes,deliberate lies and too much drinking.

--Kaiser--

Loch Ness monster?
Ridiculous
It's obviously Cthulhu

Hagar

That's not Nessie, it's Big Foot on his summer holidays.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Is that they ghost of Michael Jackson on the left...?:eek:

Heisenberg.

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Degsy

Scien wrote: »

So in 2008 Scottish Scientists spent possibly thousands searching for a Monster.



That definitely beats our E-Voting Machines shambles.

Give it time..OUR government spent billions on trying to get people to cycle to work then laid them all off.

JackM_79

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

Is that they ghost of Michael Jackson on the left...?:eek:

No, thats its babies!!

Canis Lupus

Hagar wrote: »

That's not Nessie, it's Big Foot on his summer holidays.

Ah yeah, waterskiing off the back of the boat. I see him now.

seamus

Scien wrote: »

So in 2008 Scottish Scientists spent possibly thousands searching for a Monster.



That definitely beats our E-Voting Machines shambles.

Sorry, but that's actually genius. The area gets massive amounts of money from gullible Americans who believe such a monster does/could exist.

By sending in sonar and high-tech equipment and coming back saying, "We didn't find anything, but it's a big lake, anything could be out there", they perpetuate the ignorance and bring more money to Scotland.

Genius.

smythwicks

:eek:

Its a wave:pac:

Turd Ferguson

I think this may be a trick...I tried to save the picture and it asked for 3.50

<_<
>_>

Wertz

Scien wrote: »

So in 2008 Scottish Scientists spent possibly thousands searching for a Monster.



That definitely beats our E-Voting Machines shambles.

Except we didn't spend thousands....it was in the order of 50 million plus storage fees.

Frankly that thing on gmaps looks like a fisherman's boat with an o/b engine.

I have a problem with the pleiosaur theory for Loch Ness as well...logically it can't really be. I like the theory on indigenous monster eels better.

WIZE

Its my MA . Leave her alone

holly1

It looks like a large squid to me.

syklops

holly1 wrote: »

It looks like a large squid to me.

A large squid thats visible from space? That must be monstrous.

Sleipnir

syklops wrote: »

A large squid thats visible from space? That must be monstrous.

Well, it can't be seen from space. Unless astronaut's eye's have a zoom function that I hadn't heard of.

Kess73

Wertz wrote: »

Except we didn't spend thousands....it was in the order of 50 million plus storage fees.

Frankly that thing on gmaps looks like a fisherman's boat with an o/b engine.

I have a problem with the pleiosaur theory for Loch Ness as well...logically it can't really be. I like the theory on indigenous monster eels better.

So did Steve Alten, as he put a dead conger eel on the shore as a hoax to promote his book "The Loch"


Although it has been proven that female eel (of the freshwater variety) that get lake locked and unable to return to the sea to spawn, can become sterile and as such just keep growing to what scientists think could be a length a 3m to 4m, which would be on par with the maximun known length of seawater eels.

So a 3M eel near the surface of a lake could make it look to an onlooker that a much larger animal was there.

The hole in that theory is that large eels tend to be bottom dwellers.

What Loch Ness could have (or had) in it, and they can grow quite large, is Sturgeons. They are rare enough in British waters, but have been found there.

There was a lake in the US that was meant to have a monster in it, after many sightings over a few decades of something large in the water. Then in 1987 a dead 900lb Sturgeon that was 10 feet long was found in the lake.


In Europe and Russia Sturgeons have been found to grow to over 15 feet in some cases and can weigh over 2000lbs.

seamus

syklops wrote: »

A large squid thats visible from space? That must be monstrous.

Your cock would be visible from space, given a reeaaally powerful telescope.

genericguy

mite aswell believe in god as the loch ness monster.


waits behind the door with hammer for jakkas...

Degsy

Kess73 wrote: »

So did Steve Alten, as he put a dead conger eel on the shore as a hoax to promote his book "The Loch"


Although it has been proven that female eel (of the freshwater variety) that get lake locked and unable to return to the sea to spawn, can become sterile and as such just keep growing to what scientists think could be a length a 3m to 4m, which would be on par with the maximun known length of seawater eels.

So a 3M eel near the surface of a lake could make it look to an onlooker that a much larger animal was there.

The hole in that theory is that large eels tend to be bottom dwellers.

What Loch Ness could have (or had) in it, and they can grow quite large, is Sturgeons. They are rare enough in British waters, but have been found there.

There was a lake in the US that was meant to have a monster in it, after many sightings over a few decades of something large in the water. Then in 1987 a dead 900lb Sturgeon that was 10 feet long was found in the lake.


In Europe and Russia Sturgeons have been found to grow to over 15 feet in some cases and can weigh over 2000lbs.

European Catfish or Wells can grow to enormous size..they have been introduced in many places in britain for angling purposes although there arent known to be any in scotland.

Acacia

The Lough Ness Monster kinda reminds of leprachauns here. You know the Scots just keep the whole lie going to squeeze some money off gullible tourists.

syklops

seamus wrote: »

Your cock would be visible from space, given a reeaaally powerful telescope.

It wouldnt need to be that powerful for my cock.

BTW OP, Loch Ness is spelt Loch Ness, not Lough Ness

Degsy

syklops wrote: »

It wouldnt need to be that powerful for my cock.

BTW OP, Loch Ness is spelt Loch Ness, not Lough Ness

Cock Ness ftw!

scooby man

what the **** is that a giant glow in the dark ladybird:eek:

Degsy

scooby man wrote: »

what the **** is that a giant glow in the dark ladybird:eek:

You've never seen one?

Seaneh

syklops wrote: »

A large squid thats visible from space? That must be monstrous.

you can see cars on the street on google maps so why not something which is apparently as big as a bus?

JackM_79

syklops wrote: »

It wouldnt need to be that powerful for my cock.

BTW OP, Loch Ness is spelt Loch Ness, not Lough Ness

Apologies.

Red Sleeping Beauty

Acacia wrote: »

The Lough Ness Monster kinda reminds of leprachauns here. You know the Scots just keep the whole lie going to squeeze some money off gullible tourists.

Blarney stone and Knock spring to mind.

Wibbs

It doesn't have enough fish in it to feed anything very big at all. It's acidic so the invertebrates near the bottom of the food chain are sparse and small. The local trout are bloody tiny.

I reckon there may have been something to some of the sightings and sightings of lake monsters in other places. It's connected to the sea by the river ness. Salmon run through it, so something like a giant sturgeon could make it's way up, stay in the loch for a while and give rise to the legend.

Sturgeon look bloody weird and can grow huge. 7 to 10 footers are common enough and some can reach 18 foot. That's bigger than most great white sharks. They also run up rivers and have been caught before. Including in Ireland. There was a 7 footer caught in the liffey many moons ago and another big bugger in the Barrow.

http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n182/Fishingnerd33/Sturgeon.jpg

Red Sleeping Beauty

Is one of them you in that pic Wibbs ?

Degsy

Wibbs wrote: »

http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n182/Fishingnerd33/Sturgeon.jpg

A right motley collection of happy-spas in that pic!

fluffy.death

57.168858, -4.631517

OMG there's two of them. Slow news day much indo?

Long Onion

Are ye sure it's not Mary Harney?