No sign of the famous monster was found on the camera that had been in Loch Ness for 55 years.

An underwater camera set up 55 years ago to try and photograph the Loch Ness Monster has been found by accident by a robot submarine.

The ocean-going yellow sub - called Boaty McBoatface - was being put through trials when its propeller snagged the mooring for the 1970s camera system.

It is believed it was lowered 180m (591ft) below the loch’s surface by the Loch Ness Investigation Bureau, a group set up in the 1960s to uncover the existence of Nessie in the waters.

No footage of Nessie has been found on the camera, but one of the submarine’s engineers was able to develop a few images of the loch’s murky waters.

    • fishos@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Yeah, but when it’s clearly a hoax and you have someone going “yeah, but still, what if it’s really X?” it makes it really clear how badly our education and mental health systems failed.

      • Spacehooks@reddthat.comEnglish
        31·
        2 days ago

        Well so long as you’re not ultra into it its fun and w/e. To me its same energy as planning for winning lotto. Yeah it ain’t happen but it will be cool. Its purely distraction in something possibly wonderful. Sometimes I think if the people that go too far just really dont want to come back.

        • fishos@lemmy.worldEnglish
          12·
          2 days ago

          No, it’s delusional. Writing fictional stories is fine. Trying to warp reality and evidence to fit your fantasy is delusion. “This would be cool…” is not the same as being told why you’re scientifically wrong and then going “but what if it were true anyways because I want to believe?”

          It’s the same shit with Bigfoot. As more and more “evidence” is debunked and the case becomes more obviously just a mistaken identification at best you get these whack jobs talking about how Bigfoot is a dimension jumping shape shifter. Not because they have any actual evidence, but because “this is the only way to explain why we got zero pictures despite decades of trying”.

          Imagination is fine. Delusion is not.

          • Spacehooks@reddthat.comEnglish
            41·
            2 days ago

            Hmm I thinking earth is flat as delusion cause thats a fact vs big foot where its more fun and “harder to disprove”. Though I bet you mean the dudes that ACTUALLY believe and make it their personality. Very similar to religion. Your lack of evidence to disprove doesnt mean it doesn’t exist.

      • kux@lemm.eeEnglish
        21·
        2 days ago

        i thought you were playing along with the joke but you really were going “you’re dumb actually and stupid” like you believed it