Sunday 1 May 2011

random wikipedia pages, no. 2

the album cover of a two sister band called cocorosie, called noahs ark. it apparently has a dreamlike, hypnotic feel to it. i'm not going to listen.i just want to point out that is one weird album cover, if those horses (or unicorns?) are doing what i think they're doing. which i'm pretty sure they are. because, what else could they be doing?

yes, this is from one of the pages i found by clicking random page on wikipedia. as i've said before, its an awesome thing to do when you're bored.

the next wikipedia article is about 'champ,' a loch-ness-monster-type animal said to live in lake champlain, in quebec, canada. the first reliably genuine report of a sighting came from 1883, predating the loch ness controversy by about 50 years. there had been two alleged reports of sightings earlier than that, one in 1609, which seems to have been fabricated in the 1970s by a newspaper article, and one in 1819, of which there is very little information.
 in 2003, the fauna communications research institute picked up an unknown echolocation source within the lake, which, because of its changes in tone, most likely has a biological source. this sounds a lot like the Bloop.
for more information on the champlain echolocation thing, go here, although that whole website sort of seems a bit loony (smells fishy (HA!)). here is link to the abstract of the scientific report, though it is connected to the loony website.
also in 2008, it was apparently found by the Lake Champlain Fish and Wildlife Management Cooperative that there were unexplainable fluctuations in fish populations in the lake, caused by an unknown x factor. i can't find a proper link to this, as the link in the article gos to a page saying it moved, and i can't get to the actual report. it also seems strange that the organisation wouldn't investigate further.

even if both above are true, when you put into account the size of the lake, the depth and shallowness in some locations, the alleged size of the cryptid, the amount of food that cryptid would need, the size of the colony of cryptids required to be healthy, the amount of biomass the lake is known to hold, plus a bunch of other stuff, its very unlikely the monsters collectively called 'champ' could exist.

unlikely, not impossible. anyone who says something is impossible has no idea what they're talking about.

so, there you go. from a picture of three unicorns doing...um, that, to whether a monster could exist in a large lake, in one blog post, thanks to wikipedia.

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