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Post by plutronus on Oct 1, 2012 13:32:10 GMT -6
Its been many years that I've watched anything on TV that so glued my attention as this Discovery Channel documentary presented by the Smithsonian Institute. It was a story, told by five authentic, mostly gvmnt scientists. Three were employees of the US NOAA (National Oceanographics and Atmospherics Administration), one affiliated with the African guv and one with the Australian gvmnt. A few other scientists sprinkled in for good-measure also collaborated.
Scientific discovery journeys typically begin, with mundane investigation, however, this one from the very outset began with a bang and ended with an even larger surprise, one that strips away innocence about things hidden. All along the journey were fascinating and curious surprises, as had happened from the very beginning. And unlike many scientific studies, this one was rooted in events so large that it made the public headlines, on numerous occasions, too large for PTB to control, to suppress, and the efforts of the scientists doing their study of the events, also made the headlines, but not for the reasons of the documentary. Theirs was concern for the large animal safety in the oceans. Ultimately, their discoveries took them down the path of mythology, until they came to the most unprosaic of conclusions...they had found not one, but multiple quality scientific evidence for the existence of Mermaids. Not one scientist alone, but multiple gvmnt paid scientists, on three continents.
The NOAA scientists and the other scientists collaborators had:
- multiple recorded Mermaid vocalization spectra-grams, language, 'bloop' over dozens of years
- they had found large portions of decaying strange white body flesh consistent with Human flesh that had been scavenged by a shark after something had injured or killed the strange mammal. The recovered body parts anatomically revealed:
- a body geometry consistent with a fast swimmer,
- an aquatically adapted mammal that had walked upright in its distant evolutionary past,
- strangely shaped head that very closely resembled early Human,
- large eye (socket) orbits, consistent with low light aquatically adapted mammals,
- a sonic melon on the forehead bone plates, consistent with those found in mammals for echo location functionality,
- five finger-like bones on each side in the recovered fleshy diamond-shaped tail-flipper, a structure not found in manatees, yet outwardly similar in appearance,
- hinged rib-cage and spine, consistent with deep diving mammals,
- large spleen, consistent with deep diving mammals,
- corpse DNA sample, the testing laboratory presumed had been contaminated as sample revealed Human DNA,
- an ancient (believed to be oldest Human cave drawings) of diamond shaped tail-flippered aquatically adapted Humans, consistent with the recovered tail-flipper the scientists found,
- photographs of Mermaids crawling out of deep-sea fishing nets, with webbed hands, similar in appearance to the webbed hand in scientists possession,
- anonymized on camera interview of gvrnmnt whistle-blower, revealed the US Nvy both knew about the Mermaids, but were also suppressing information about their existence, while their high-power ultrasound experiments were killing them,
- cellphone video of an injured Mermaid, taken by adolescent eyewitnesses. They found the Mermaid laying on a Washington beach adjacent to a beached pilot whale. The whale, one of those injured that died, believed caused by US Navy high-power Ultra-Sound testing in the open oceans. Was reported widely in the press, to have caused mass whale and dolphin beachings, all exhibiting ear blood damage, world over. The Nvy had indoctrinated the kids into 'believing' (convinced them to shut-up) that they had seen a sea-lion. They had both made drawings and a video recording that they did not share with the Nvy interrogators/indoctrinators. After all, they knew what they saw and videotaped no matter the coercion used to convince them otherwise.
That videotape is incredible to see. Believe me, its worth watching the entire documentary to view it.
Documentary was excellent. If you should have opportunity to watch it, I recommend doing so. It is excellent.
But the US Gvmnt, took their evidence, so what else is new?
In my neck-of-the-woods, documentary was aired on Discovery-Channel Sept 30, 2012 6 - 8 pm
Principal NOAA investigator: Dr. bob McCormick
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Post by skywalker on Oct 1, 2012 22:23:53 GMT -6
I've always suspected there might be more to the mermaid stories than just superstition or wishful thinking. Mermaids used to be a very prevailant belief throughout the sailing industry, much like UFOs are today. Skeptics claim they are just misidentified manatees or other sea mammals but I find it hard to believe that a sailor who spends his entire life at sea would not know what a bleeping manatee is. I know what they are and I'm not even a sailor. I think there are still a lot of things in the ocean that we still don't know about. Maybe there really is some type of mermaid type creature out there. The sailors were right about the Kraken (giant squid) that the skeptics also refused to accept until it was proven that they existed. I would like to see that documentary.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2012 22:59:02 GMT -6
I saw this documentary advertised several months ago and I really wanted to see it but I didn't get around to doing so... Thanks for the synopsis Plutronus. I still wish I had seen it though...
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2012 6:29:23 GMT -6
Though I don't usually watch much t.v., Kelly and I watched this about 4 times several months ago and I too was glued every time ! I didn't believe in mermaids until I watched this but now,,,,, hmmm. The video that the kid took was hair raising if real and I think the kid was being legit. The former NOAA team seemed to be telling the truth also. The tools were primitive but effective and real looking. I think the evidence that they had in South Africa was confiscated as they claimed. The ancient drawings in the caves that were shown backed their claims also with detailed similarities. The sonar like device on the top of their human like craniums were similar to that of a dolphins. I could see how the genetic link split earlier in mankinds history. This seemed all too real and fascinating. I'm glad you brought this up Plutronus,,,what a show and I have definitely re-evaluated my way of thinking about the possibilities. I wonder if that thing in the Baltic might have something to do with these (possible) beings ? Just a wild guess. Cliff
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Post by skywalker on Oct 2, 2012 6:54:44 GMT -6
The reviews of the show on the internet were not very flattering. Everybody is claiming it is a fake with hired actors and CGI effects. www.imdb.com/title/tt1816585/reviewsI'm still looking into it to see if there is any truth to any of it.
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Post by sansseed on Oct 2, 2012 9:41:22 GMT -6
I watched the documentary on Sunday night. I was also fascinated by it, but I did have a few problems with it.
1) In regards to the boys video. They mentioned that the Navy came in and intimidated the boy and his mom to change their story. So, I found it odd that that they kept showing the one boy's face throughout (prior to the end when they showed the "mermaid"). As a mom, I would not allow that. Yes, you could use the video, but please blur out my son's face. If the mom was going to allow that, then why not allow an interview. So, it seems incongruent to me.
2) I also had issues with the head NOAA researcher. Why didn't he agree to be a part of the documentary. Towards the end they said that he (the head researcher) left NOAA and was still out looking for these creatures. They also said that he became discouraged by all that happened in South Africa. So, why did his two research assistants come forward, but not him. He isn't associated with NOAA anymore, so what did he have to lose? If he is as passionate as they made him sound, then why not come forward to tell the story. I would think that he would do anything to get the story out there to discredit the Navy and get the Navy to stop their sonar experiments.
3) I also question the source of the two videos (the one taken at the Navy facility of a tank and the boy's video). They just didn't seem like videos taken in secret or spur of the moment. They seemed too steady and too clean. They just seemed staged. I mean, these videos weren't bouncing around or being readjusted in any way. We have seen all the supposedly UFO video on the internet. How many are completely steady while filming? None. Not unless they have it on some tripod.
I'm not saying that these creatures don't exist. They have been a part of sailing lore for centuries. The water-land human evolution theory has been around for a while. It's not out of the realm of possibility, and what we know of our oceans is really quite small. Yet, I find this particular documentary suspect. Just my two cents.
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Post by auntym on Oct 2, 2012 11:32:05 GMT -6
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Post by plutronus on Oct 3, 2012 8:16:34 GMT -6
[/color] [/quote] Hi AuntyM,
Thanks for taking the time to track down some videos on this subject. :-)
Lots of folks on the 'Net are saying that the whole video is a hoaxed re-enactment, all using actors. That may be, but the spectra-grams used in the doc are authentic spectra-graphs of dolphin and whale song as best I could see. I at one time dated a gal (very cute). She was a dolphin research scientist affiliated with Sea-World. Heh heh, I'd take her out on on weekends. We'd go to her place after a movie, have a nice quaint little dinner, have some vino, get comfy, she'd get really excited, yanking out her FFT spectra-graphs on her PC, yakking about it for hours, heh heh. Yep. She was an interesting gal. :-)
Ad rem, if that video is a fake, they got me good...because I think it was excellent. I really enjoyed that documentary. Of course it does seem to be a re-enactment. Plus, there were a couple things about the camera phone video that seems a bit odd, frankly. I watched the 3 hr documentary twice, and both times I was unable to pin-point the appx date of when the two kids cell-corded the Mermaid on the beach. If it was the Washington event (I remember when that happened, it was in the national news), well, I think that would have been too early for cell-corder technology. The cell-corder video was fairly long too, 45 seconds? A minute? Fast flash (Nand) memory had been invented, but wasn't in common usage by OEMs yet. And who allowed kids to use cell-phones back in that period? Remember? $0.45/minute, no free time. Also, the video looks like its a recording of a CRT based interlaced TV screen. I could see the interlace & retrace blanking intervals, anyone else notice that? And the brother running the camera, he knew exactly where to zoom point the camera. Seems too controllable. Cell-phone cameras today don't work that well, at least none of mine ever have. Has to be a re-enactment, which means, we have no idea what was actually used to video the Mermaid beaching, plus lots of other things may have been changed? Names?
I'm gonna see if I can track down the show producers and then locate the scientists that the (I suspect) re-enactment actors portrayed. For one thing, I could be persuaded to do a bit of investigation in this area. There may be a linkage between discs (frequently reported entering/exiting oceans), Mermaids and US Nvy. Just another aspect of ET science to squeeze any turnip for a little more info. And then, since I've always considered myself to be a primate behavioral anthropologist, which has been my Nr 1 interest in science since I was a kid, well, this is right up my alley.
Soo...if its a fake, they got me right between the eyes!!! And I loved it!
Here's the video of the Mermaid. The visual quality is really nasty compared to what was presented on TV (& my 52in HD LED TV).
If it was real, that poor thing (unless of course, Mermaids have the personality traits of Apache Indians).
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Post by paulette on Oct 3, 2012 10:25:08 GMT -6
Well....another sentient being that we are killing off - with underwater explosions/testing, with deep-sea trawlers and such? Thanks for posting the series on this. I watched every one.
I have always felt a deep pull to be in the water. Maybe I have a little more of that divergent DNA (LOL).
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Post by skywalker on Oct 3, 2012 11:35:29 GMT -6
Here is a list of the actors and people who made the movie. www.imdb.com/title/tt1816585/fullcredits#castIt also supposedly said at the end of the movie, "Similarities to names are purely coincidental" which would mean that none of the scientists really exist. It also supposedly said the the movie was for entertainment purposes only. I have seen other Discovery Channel productions in the past where they dealt with speculation about how things might have happened so that may be what this was intended to be. They probably could have done a better job of labeling it as such unless they were intentionally trying to deceive people for whatever reason. To hopefully get more viewers perhaps? Whatever it turns out to be I still think the idea that aquatic/humanoid creatures like mermaids might exist is an interesting possibility. Just take a look at how humans have adapted to just about every environment on the planet, from the hottest to the coldest, as well as the different types of humanoid creatures that have existed in the past. I think it is very possible that a type of human or humanoid might have evolved to live in the ocean. I also think it is probably that if they did exist they would have learned to avoid land-based humans like the plague because humans have a tendency to kill everything they see. For their own survival they would have to live a secretive existence. There may very well be mermaids out there somewhere. If so I would definitely like to find them.
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Post by satansrini on Oct 3, 2012 11:47:03 GMT -6
I will probably watch the documentary anyways.. for those who did not click on the link Skywalker gave, below is one of the reviews given by some user:
"I stumbled upon this when they re-ran it on the Discovery Channel. It looked fishy (no pun intended) from the beginning, but, since this was the Discovery Channel, I thought that it was a reenactment of actual statements. Wrong. It was very easy to tell that the "scientists" were actors. They were trying too hard to look "candid" and genuine. So that struck me right off the bat. Then we were treated to a "video" of a teenager stumbling across the body of an alleged mermaid. Again, very obvious that it's fake with blatant, poor CGI.
I have no problem with any of this. It's a free country and there are people who believe this stuff. However, I do have a problem with this kind of stuff being shown on the Discovery Channel. The Discovery Channel has (or had) a reputation of having legitimate scientific programing. They've had plenty of ACTUAL documentaries in similar style to this and to put this program on the channel, regardless of how many times they alluded to how it was fake, is completely inappropriate. I expect this kind of stuff on the SyFy Channel, where it would be appropriate, not on a channel like Discovery. I believe this program, more than any other in recent times, speaks to the poor state of U.S. television."
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Post by skywalker on Oct 5, 2012 18:36:33 GMT -6
Let's assume just for the sake of argument that the "documentary" is a fake, which it appears to be. Does that mean that all of the "evidence" they presented in it is fake also? What about the cave paintings that they showed that seemed to depict prehistoric cavemen fighting against people with fish-like tails. Did they just make that up or do the cave paintings really exist? I know a lot of the examples they gave of mermaids being depicted by different cultures throughout history were authentic. Were the bones real as well? Was any of it real? I want to see if I can find out more about that cave and whether or not those paintings really exist.
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Post by paulette on Oct 5, 2012 21:27:39 GMT -6
Let us know too Skywalker. I felt the same way.
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Post by skywalker on Oct 7, 2012 7:54:09 GMT -6
From what I have found so far it appears the photos of the cave paintings were released by the Discovery Channel just before they released their "documentary" which means they are probably bogus. I can't find any info on the cave any where else. If it turns out that the Discovery Channel produced a totally ficticious "documentary" complete with phony "evidence" to back it up and then tried to pass it off as being real than the Discovery Channel needs to get their butt kicked. The last thing we need is a science-oriented television network perpetrating hoaxes. Especially when there was no need for them to do that. There is plenty of real evidence out there that they could have looked at to produce a real documentary. Why make up a bunch of nonsense when it's not necessary?
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Post by paulette on Oct 8, 2012 0:04:29 GMT -6
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Post by skywalker on Oct 8, 2012 10:47:21 GMT -6
Good job, Paulette. I don't know why I wasn't able to find that. I took a close look at it and it seems the figures depicted in the Cave of Swimmers are of humans swimming, not mermaids with fish tails. They very clearly have two legs and feet. The link that touched posted is also interesting because it seems that it actually does show actual mermaids with fish tails. I'm going to do some more research into it because it sounds kind of cool.
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Post by paulette on Oct 8, 2012 23:22:01 GMT -6
touched-Cliff - interesting material for sure.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2012 11:04:23 GMT -6
Almost all countries have stories of mermaids although they are predominant in Europe under many many names. Christopher Columbus reported them, as did many other famous folk and most seasoned sailors would know the difference between a sea creature and a woman...there is the rub. Very few mermen are ever reported...doesn't seem to be an equal opportunity sea. I think I think this. There are/have been/were/are.. humanoids who could breathe water...maybe survivors of Atlantis or Mu or Lemuria and I'm thinking they probably don't have tails. That I think comes from fishermen seeing women out in the middle of the sea and maybe the brain is adding a fishy tail to seem more in keeping with something from the ocean. I do know that some people have webbed toes. My nephew for one and they are webbed from the tip to the end. Doctors said they could separate them but why bother? He loves it. So I read a lot on this site and there's a lot of mermaid history gathered here. Not scientific evidence but food for thought www.womanthouartgod.com/mermaids.php
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Post by paulette on Oct 9, 2012 18:54:46 GMT -6
Almost all countries have stories of mermaids although they are predominant in Europe under many many names. I do know that some people have webbed toes. My nephew for one and they are webbed from the tip to the end. Doctors said they could separate them but why bother? He loves it. So I read a lot on this site and there's a lot of mermaid history gathered here. Not scientific evidence but food for thought www.womanthouartgod.com/mermaids.phpWow! Can he swim extra fast??? It would really help if one was boogie boarding or using the dolphin kick.
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Post by skywalker on Oct 9, 2012 19:47:59 GMT -6
Ok...so it appears that the cave in the "documentary" is a real cave that had paintings of swimming people that had legs and the Discovery Channel people drew fake mermaids with tails for their "fakumentary."
The question I have is why would they do that when the cave that Cliff posted the link about is a real cave that has real drawings of mermaids? Why not just use the real evidence and make a real documentary instead of a phony one? That doesn't make any sense.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2012 23:32:27 GMT -6
He does swim very well
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Post by skywalker on Oct 10, 2012 15:14:29 GMT -6
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Post by paulette on Oct 10, 2012 22:50:59 GMT -6
Thanks Skywalker. This all stirs up some dreams I had as a young woman. At that time I seemed to be "practicing" flying alot. It was not easy (still isn't) and I don't get up very high and have to land on a tree or something after awhile or I lose altitude. But the other dreams were about discovering that I could breathe under water. Once I was being chased, and because I was tiring, I could only manage to hover slightly out of grabbing reach, come to earth and then be forced into the air again. I knew they were going to kill me. I got to the ocean and just jumped in. I didn't even care if I drowned - I just didn't want to be captured by THEM. Moments passed and eventually I looked up - I couldn't see out unless someone put their face very close to the surface. A few things were thrown at me which I watched sink ineffectively. I then knew I could stay under as long as I wished. In any dream, I was injured and a being who was not human picked me up and swam with me a long time under water. I expected to pass out, but again, I was being chased and shot at. Instead I felt some shift and could breathe. My rescuer seemed surprised and he had to argue with his own kind when eventually we surfaced far away, in a place that I would say was something like a beaver lodge (without beaver poo). The fact that I was able to stay under water, was the final reason that I could stay. (I had come seeking them but that's another long story).
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2012 9:34:51 GMT -6
~sigh~ I never have cool dreams. Most of my friends have flying dreams and according to everything I read..they are very common. I've never had one and if I do dream it's so much like real life I may as well not even be asleep. Even the people are the same but in dreams I'm usually closer to them. In other words..I have boring dreams. When I started to remember the abduction..it was never as a dream but a waking flash back and I haven't had a nightmare since I was a very young child. The funny thing is...I 'remember' flying..I have memory of spreading myself so thin on the air and like gossamer..floating with the air currents..I can 'feel' the air currents...the sensation. Not flying like a bird but floating..maybe I have dreams when I'm awake and not aware of them LOL.
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Post by paulette on Oct 11, 2012 21:39:33 GMT -6
Or maybe you have flown - in another dimension.
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Post by auntym on Mar 20, 2013 12:40:00 GMT -6
thebiggeststudy.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/short-subject-fishing-for-mermaids-with.htmlMonday, March 18, 2013 Short Subject: Fishing for Mermaids with Ivan. This will be short. It was inspired by coming across a letter to Bob Warth after Ivan died, wherein a SITU member wanted to comment about an exchange that she'd had with Ivan about news stories in her area which made mermaid incident claims. The member had promised to try to get up to the exact city where the paper had published the stories [there were about three different sorts of claims] and get copies of the clippings for Ivan's file. And the letter at hand was that member's successful accomplishing of that years later. I am actually surprised that Ivan had a file on Mermaids at all. More on that and why after I give you the one Mermaid tale that was in this letter that I liked a great deal. This lady was writing Warth in 1984 from the Vancouver area and reflected on her original letter way back in 1967. There had been a small brouhaha about Mermaid sightings then, including an alleged photo of Her Wateriness lounging on the shoreline [above]. Marion Fawcett had wanted the lady to get a better copy of the picture, but she failed. Now years later, she had stumbled on to the news stories again, plus one other. She thought that SITU might still want them for the files [there is no evidence that in 1984 anyone was still filing anything at all there]. The Mermaid-on-the-Shore is certainly a college guys' prank, and pretty uninteresting [to me anyway]. A second story from that 1967 date [from a different location: Sayward Beach, Cordova Bay --- the college boys' "mermaid" was at Cowichan Bay], however has a little more going for it. For one thing, the witness was an adult housewife who lived at the shore and knew it well. She described the event as her walking the beach and beginning to come up on a "girl suntanning" at about 200 feet away. But she then noticed that the topless blonde sunbather had a tail for a "bottom" which threw the whole thing into Magonia. The lady tried to run to get closer, but the Mermaid spotted her and slid over the rocks thereby and was gone when she arrived. The witness refused to believe that this was an actual Mermaid, but rather someone playing a joke of some kind [note that she had no good reason for saying that other than an attempt to maintain her own sanity]. CONTINUE READING: thebiggeststudy.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/short-subject-fishing-for-mermaids-with.html
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Post by auntym on May 28, 2013 10:43:48 GMT -6
www.ibtimes.com/do-mermaids-exist-animal-planets-mermaids-new-evidence-ignites-twitter-debate-about-creatures-being#Do Mermaids Exist? Animal Planet's ‘Mermaids: The New Evidence’ Ignites Twitter Debate About The Creatures Being Real By Maria Vultaggio May 26 2013 After Animal Planet premiered its new special for Monster Week, “Mermaids: The New Evidence,” on Sunday, Twitter lit up with speculation about whether the aquatic humanoids were real. The existence of the half-human, half-fish beings clearly remains open to debate -- at least among those with vivid imaginations. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has released an official statement that answers the question: "Are mermaids real?" NOAA said, "No evidence of aquatic humanoids has ever been found." The new program, which will most likely duplicate the success of its sibling, “Mermaids: The Body Found,” begins by showing apparently new evidence of mermaids' existence. American tourists in Israel happen to catch footage of a mermaid and in turn the mockumentary claims there is a $1 million reward for anyone who can provide more footage of the mystical creatures. Next, the show reveals evidence of mermaids in the U.K. As two men struggle on a boat, a mermaid-looking creature is shown jumping out of the water and glaring at the camera. While one scientist on the program claims it’s an image of a seal, Animal Planet’s lead scientist maintains it’s a mermaid. According to the television program, P.T. Barnum, famous now as a constituent of Barnum and Bailey, had a real mermaid he was about to reveal at one of his expositions in 1865 before the venue burned down. The show also contended a mermaid had been sighted off the coast of Greenland and presented the underwater footage as its most compelling piece of evidence. SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO & CONTINUE READING: www.ibtimes.com/do-mermaids-exist-animal-planets-mermaids-new-evidence-ignites-twitter-debate-about-creatures-being#
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Post by auntym on Jun 3, 2013 13:16:55 GMT -6
tv.yahoo.com/news/mermaids--nonsense-or-nuisance--192009947.html Mermaids: Nonsense or Nuisance?[/color] Animal Planet's fake documentary draws real ire.[/color] By Robert Chan | Yahoo! TV Sat, Jun 1, 2013 Animal Planet has raised quite a furor over its airing of the "speculative" documentary "Mermaids: The New Evidence." Capping its annual Monster Week, a network once known for safari shows and puppy bowls is turning over increasing amounts of its broadcast time to cryptozoology shows like "Lost Tapes," "Dragons: A Fantasy Made Real," and "Finding Bigfoot". In fact, "Finding Bigfoot" was at the center of another, similar, controversy reported last year by Entertainment Weekly as TV critics turned skeptics, forced Animal Planet president Marjorie Kaplan to offer a vague defense of the show as "an exploration of the secret corners of the planet," since it lacks anything approaching hard evidence. Should They Have Aired It? Animal Planet has 3.6 million reasons (as in viewers!) why they should've. There's really nothing wrong with using actors to re-enact scenes for a documentary. But where is the line? "Unsolved Mysteries" gives a framework for its actors to pretend they were criminals, but actors on "Mermaids" pretend they're scientists with nothing but a tiny caveat in the credits to suggest it's anything but 100% fact. Animal Planet's first "Mermaids" installment, "Mermaids: The Body Found," garnered 3.4 million views during its U.S. telecast premiere on Sunday, May 27, 2012. After the airing, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration had to release an official statement putting it, in unequivocal terms, "No evidence of aquatic humanoids has ever been found." Marine biologist David Shiffman wrote an article for Slate explaining why we should stop worrying about mythical sea life and focus on the damage being done to the sea life we know exists. He talks about fisheries where up to 90 percent of a catch is made up of unintended victims. Not the commercial fish, but "endangered sea turtles and sea birds as well as marine mammals." So, do mermaids exist? Science says no. But science is a process of discovery. And, as this tweet's skepticism of skepticism suggests: There's no reason not to believe that they might. But science is also pretty good at predicting. And just because we haven't laid eyes on 90% of the ocean, doesn't mean we don't have a pretty good idea of what's going on down there. Just because you haven't been to your tool shed in a month doesn't make it any more likely that Bigfoot's decided to take up residence in there. SEE SLIDE SHOW & CONTINUE READING: tv.yahoo.com/news/mermaids--nonsense-or-nuisance--192009947.html
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Post by auntym on Mar 28, 2014 12:28:51 GMT -6
interesting video... Amazing Mermaid On The Rock "Sirena" (Animal Planet, Special Analysis 100% TRUE) Is This A Real Mermaid? Or, just a hoax? Frankly, I have a hard time believing mermaids exist. Whatever is going on here, you have to admit, it's pretty cool to watch. Likely a clip from the mermaid special on TV last year. Credit: UFOvni2012 muldersworld.com/watch.asp?v=cvsXiryu8jA
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