The mystery of the Loch Ness Monster lives on despite a weekend of amateur sleuthing.

Observers on a boat using acoustic equipment reported four unidentified “gloops” but then realised their recording device wasn’t plugged in.

  • JoBo@feddit.ukEnglish
    113·
    10 months ago

    It’s a massive, massive lake. It could sustain several Nessies, should any exist.

    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      92·
      10 months ago

      23 miles, so it’s not massive. it is deep. but there’s a fixed food supply; does the Ness river provide unobstructed access to the sea?

      when I think massive I think lake superior. not something you can see across in both axis (weather, obviously depending)…

      • rambaroo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        813·
        10 months ago

        23 miles is pretty fucking big for a lake. Just reading the Wikipedia on it shows what a dumb criticism your comment is:

        At 56 km2 (22 sq mi), Loch Ness is the second-largest Scottish loch by surface area after Loch Lomond, but due to its great depth it is the largest by volume in Great Britain. Its deepest point is 230 metres (126 fathoms; 755 feet), making it the second deepest loch in Scotland after Loch Morar. It contains more water than all the lakes in England and Wales combined, and is the largest body of water in the Great Glen, which runs from Inverness in the north to Fort William in the south.

        Lake Superior is one of the largest lakes one the planet. That’s a stupid standard to hold lakes to. It’s like saying Chicago isn’t a big city because it’s smaller than Tokyo.

        If you’re trying to refute an idiotic theory it helps to not sound like an idiot yourself.

        • SaakoPaahtaa@lemmy.worldEnglish
          125·
          10 months ago

          What’s that supposed to prove? That its a big lake for UK standards?

          United kingdom haha more like united small ass ponds.

          Its really not that big of a lake

        • elscallr@lemmy.worldEnglish
          93·
          10 months ago

          23sqmi wouldn’t be in the top 100 lakes in the US. It’s really lot that big at all.

      • JoBo@feddit.ukEnglish
        211·
        10 months ago

        but there’s a fixed food supply

        You understand that fish breed, right? That all the food that any of us will ever need for generations to come does not currently exist in the here and now?

        • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
          111·
          10 months ago

          yes, fish breed. and eat each other. and nothing in that entire ecosystem suggests it can support a gigantic predator.

          • JoBo@feddit.ukEnglish
            114·
            10 months ago

            No one has even quantified the entire ecosystem of Loch Ness. What makes you so cocksure of yourself?

        • MeanEYE@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          10 months ago

          Fish breed but Nessie fucks around for hundreds of years without a single shit washing ashore or a decent photo. In fact we live in a world of cameras, my phone has 5 of them right now, any of which would do just fine.