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No, we didn’t find the Loch Ness Monster with Apple Maps

Posted on April 18, 2014April 21, 2014 By Andrew Thaler 30 Comments on No, we didn’t find the Loch Ness Monster with Apple Maps
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It’s been a long time since we’ve had a good debunking-random-monster-sighting post. The ready availability of global satellite image databases is a powerful tool for exploration and monitoring but has also led to a boom in pseudoscience “discoveries” by people not familiar with how these images are produced or just willing to suspend disbelief for their pet woo.

This morning my inbox exploded with articles about the definitive Loch Ness monster sighting. The accompanying image is a low-resolution satellite image of a boat wake, available, apparently, only on Apple Maps. There’s really no deconstruction needed, it’s a boat wake. Compare this image from Loch Ness:

Nessie? No.
Nessie? No.

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Our favorite sea monsters – Nessie (#6)

Posted on September 6, 2010September 7, 2010 By David Shiffman 2 Comments on Our favorite sea monsters – Nessie (#6)
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One of the most famous “sea monsters” of all time – so famous that her outline graces the Ocean of Pseudoscience Week logo – actually lives in a lake. I’m talking, of course, about “Nessie”, the Loch Ness monster.

Local reports of a bizarre creature inhabiting the Scottish lake go back over a thousand years, but the story became popularized in the 1930’s when Dr. Robert Kenneth Wilson took a now-famous photograph.

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