As technology advances, so does our ability to locate things that are otherwise hard to find.
The recent search for Steve Fossett has brought just such a technology to the forefront, known as Mechanical Turk.
This high resolution satellite imagery gathered by the program has allowed people to find numerous plane crashes. With it solving these mysteries, could it be applied to solve others?
Author Benjamin Radford thinks so.
In his article, he describes how this technology could (and should) be used to try to find existence of some of the larger cryptids alleged to roam the globe.
Is Bigfoot too small to show up on camera? Maybe, he posits, but a breeding population shouldn’t be.
With lake monsters being so large, and having to surface for air from time to time, they may make an excellent candidate for satellite discovery.
Although this is an intriguing idea, the article correctly points out that the imagery is unlikely to prove anything.
If nothing is found, then cryptid believers will just argue that the animals in question remain well hidden. If they are found, though, zoology as we know it may change forever.
Sounds intriguing. Let the search begin!