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"For decades, cameras have been capturing images of a flying, torpedo-like creature so fast it cannot be seen with the naked eye. Some think it is a military weapon; others believe it may be a creature from another dimension known as 'Rods.' Super high-speed photography, physics and even a wind tunnel experiment will be used to shed light on what these images are. One-part history, one-part science and one part monster, discover the truth behind legendary monsters."

http://www.history.com/shows.do?action=detail&episodeId=260702

This is a pretty good program. And this one about "rods"--no dick jokes, please--has some of the most convincing evidence concerning unexplained phenomena that I've seen. Check it out.

1/10/2008 12:30:00 AM

you really think rods are anything other than moving objects (bugs or birds most likely) that are moving too fast for the cameras which took the pictures?

1/10/2008 12:37:16 AM

Just watch the show. They have high-quality news camera footage and dozens of images going back to at least 1910. We're not talking fuzzy trashcan-lid UFO images here.

In any event, believe what you want--I'm not trying to convince anybody about the existence of these things. I simply think Monster Quest is a good show.

[Edited on January 10, 2008 at 12:52 AM. Reason : .]

1/10/2008 12:50:19 AM

do a wiki search for "rods"

i did like a minute survey and it looks like a bunch of debunked sillyness

1/10/2008 1:06:33 AM

1/10/2008 1:27:02 AM

^^ Nobody cares what you think, troll.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=amnNgXRK_vo

[Edited on January 10, 2008 at 1:33 AM. Reason : .]

1/10/2008 1:31:47 AM

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"On 8th and 9th August 2005, China Central Television (CCTV) aired a two-part documentary about flying rods in China. It reported an incident which happened from May to June of the same year at Tonghua Zhenguo Pharmaceutical Company in Tonghua City, Jilin Province, which debunked the flying rods. ([3]) Surveillance cameras in the facility's compound captured video footage of flying rods identical to those shown in Jose Escamilla's video. Getting no satisfactory answer to the phenomenon, the curious research staff of the facility, being scientists, decided that they would try to solve the mystery by attempting to catch these airborne creatures. Huge nets were set up and the same surveillance cameras then captured images of rods flying into the trap. When the nets were inspected, the "rods" were no more than regular moths and other ordinary flying insects. Subsequent investigations proved that the appearance of flying rods on video was an optical illusion created by the slower recording speed of the camera (done to save video space). This is the empirical evidence, showing that the "rods" themselves can be captured, and that they do indeed prove to be ordinary animals."

1/10/2008 1:44:59 AM

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"Just watch the show. They have high-quality news camera footage and dozens of images going back to at least 1910. We're not talking fuzzy trashcan-lid UFO images here. In any event, believe what you want--I'm not trying to convince anybody about the existence of these things. I simply think Monster Quest is a good show."

1/10/2008 1:49:34 AM

Comes on at 2am...8min from now, for anyone interested

1/10/2008 1:53:05 AM

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"^^ Nobody cares what you think, troll."

oh my god, what the fuck is your problem

I WAS HOLDING BACK YOU IGNORANT LITTLE SHIT

given your pass record i'm not surprised that you buy into this baloney

1/10/2008 2:03:41 AM

This is some freaky stuff.

1/10/2008 2:10:46 AM

if you are an idiot

1/10/2008 2:14:24 AM

shoot i had this on in the background but havent paid attention. guess i'll rewind the dvr and watch.

i saw a monster quest on big foot. it was pretty cool. nothing overly convincing, but it definitely makes you wonder.

1/10/2008 2:32:25 AM

i love this show. its a fun show to watch. i feel asleep watching this last night
also, Ghost Hunters International started last night and the new UFO shows on the HC should start up pretty soon

1/10/2008 9:19:41 AM

Dear TWC,

Where is my HCHD?



Watched this last night. Was interesting but followed the standard format for these kinds of shows:
First 5 min - "OMG WTF!!??"
Next 50 min - drawn out, less dramatic "WTF??"
Last 5 min - "Haha, dumbasses"

that said, i'm a sucker for them

[Edited on January 10, 2008 at 10:25 AM. Reason : .]

1/10/2008 10:24:56 AM

^x6 Eat shit and die, motherfucker. I hope a monster gets you.

^x4 You, too.

Once again--for the fucking idiots:

Quote :

"In any event, believe what you want--I'm not trying to convince anybody about the existence of these things. I simply think Monster Quest is a good show."

[Edited on January 10, 2008 at 11:28 AM. Reason : ]

1/10/2008 11:28:14 AM

this dumb motherfucker's craziness is starting to branch out

what forum will he attempt to infect next

i'm voting on tech talk

1/10/2008 1:27:33 PM

I like this show, pretty interesting stuff.

1/10/2008 1:33:32 PM

I also like this show

[Edited on January 10, 2008 at 11:01 PM. Reason : and if it has Tiki's approval, you know its good]

1/10/2008 11:01:01 PM

of all the crazy shit you can believe in (ufos, bigfoot, other random things), believing in the existence of rods is just...... well...... stupid. They aren't real. They are camera anomalies. That show even said as much. Frankly, the whole rods thing gives all the other unexplained phenomenon groups a bad name.

1/10/2008 11:56:39 PM

i think the one about the giant squid was the best, probably because its the most plausible

1/11/2008 7:42:29 AM

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"others believe it may be a creature from another dimension"

There's always a group of "others" that believe everything is from some other dimension. It's like they have a reverse Occam's razor principle deeply rooted in their brain. Macco's razor?

1/11/2008 7:52:02 AM

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"i think the one about the giant squid was the best, probably because its the most plausible"

umm... there are giant squid

apparently (just learned this)... it's called the Colossal Squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_squid



note... actually there are other giant squid of the Architeuthidae family as well,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_squid

very cool

[Edited on January 11, 2008 at 9:58 AM. Reason : .]

1/11/2008 9:37:08 AM

Ummm, no. The monster quest giant squid is looking for fucking Kraken. Like dquid big enough to attack ships.

This show is actually pretty damn good, even scientifically, until they hit the rods episode. Rods are an easily and often debunked phenomena and they didn't try very hard to debunk it. That episode was complete shit and made me angry.

The rest of them rock....they do a fair job of representing both sides and sorta trying to debunk things.

1/11/2008 9:47:12 AM

i forget the long ass name of the squid they were trying to find, but at the very end they caught a shot of a tentacle that a couple of different guys i think estimated to be 100 feet long or so. thats some shit i think is really out there

1/11/2008 9:50:18 AM

Quote :

"baloney"

1/11/2008 9:50:58 AM

^^that wasnt on monster quest, it was a nat geo show if my memeory serves me correctly

and i also think you are slightly exagerating the 100 ft length

1/11/2008 9:53:57 AM

kraken and giant squid are two totally different things

i'm not watching this stupid show, so I only have what is said here to go on

but people did not have conclusive proof that giant squid existed until very recently

1/11/2008 9:54:06 AM

this is a link to a message board talking about that episode

http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=111340

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"I just finished finished watching Monster Quest on the History Channel and let me tell you, it was great! It The creature caught was very large, at least compared to the 5 foot long squid with the camera. Comparing the length from center of the tentacles to the eye (you can see the eye shining) it was estimated to be I think....60 feet? I'm not sure, first they said 60 feet, than they said 100 feet, it confused me a bit. But you can definitley tell that this was a big squid."

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"They could not tell what species of squid it was so the two estimates are based on two different species of squid. The first estimate of 60 ft is the estimated length if it was a Humboldt Squid. The second estimate was 108 ft, which is the estimated total length if it was a Giant Squid. The arms of this squid (whatever species) were estimated to be a whopping 18 inches in diameter!"

so apparently i'm not the only one

1/11/2008 10:00:26 AM

Exactly. And I know that the Giant squid and Kraken are different...i mean something of kraken proportions.

Basically, you came into here trying to tell us something about the giant squid, which apparently, you know dick about. Then you act like you can talk about the show without having watched it?

C'mon man.

1/11/2008 10:32:29 AM

why are you on my nuts?

the only responses you've made were to make some stupid ass comments to me...

[Edited on January 11, 2008 at 10:37 AM. Reason : .]

1/11/2008 10:36:32 AM

Because you came in here acting like you were going to teach us something with your newfound wiki knowledge about giant squid.

And actually, my first comment was mostly about the show and a brief review, so don't flatter yourself.

I feel like they did most of the good investigations early on in the season, and now they're out of good things to cover. We will see...

1/11/2008 11:00:35 AM

no, i already knew about the basics of the recent discovery of proof for the giant squid

i was presenting additional information for other's edification

because I decided to spend a few minutes and look up some new stuff for myself and decided to share with others

instead of just waltzing into a thread and start being a complete dick

1/11/2008 11:04:11 AM

^ If you don't like Monster Quest, you claim you aren't watching it, and you think it presents a bunch of "debunked sillyness [sic]," why do you continue to post in this thread? Because you're trying to be an annoying troll asshole, maybe?

GTFO.

Yeah, I suppose it's ridiculous to think there are creatures that all-knowing humans don't know about. The continual discovery of numerous new species, however, throws a rather large monkey wrench into the gears of that type of thinking--not to mention the many areas of our physical world that have not been fully explored or explored at all.

The following are just the new species that were found in some California caves in 2006:

27 Unknown Creatures Found in California Caves

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"KINGS CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) - Spiders, centipedes and scorpion-like critters are among the 27 new animal species that biologists have discovered in the dark, damp caves of two Central California national parks, officials announced Tuesday."

http://www.livescience.com/animals/ap_060118_cave_critters.html

Episode Guide

http://www.history.com/minisite.do?content_type=Minisite_Generic&content_type_id=56692&display_order=2&mini_id=56117

[Edited on January 11, 2008 at 1:13 PM. Reason : .]

1/11/2008 1:10:20 PM

I fucking love this show

1/11/2008 1:19:56 PM

now looking for a fish that eats children and alligators in the amazon

1/21/2008 11:01:53 AM

this show is ridiculous.

of course there are species out there we haven't discovered. particularly in the oceans.

but giant child snatching birds? man eating catfish? SASQUATCH??? RODS?? FUCKING RODS?!? shit's retarded

[Edited on January 21, 2008 at 11:22 AM. Reason : .]

1/21/2008 11:21:08 AM

I like the show. Watching the big foot episode now.

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"now looking for a fish that eats children and alligators in the amazon"

Pirhanas do that, except for alligators, but they aren't in the amazon, maybe crocodiles though.

1/21/2008 1:38:58 PM

ttt

4/28/2008 7:46:59 AM