WTF?!? I could have sworn I saw mermaids throughout Neptunis Rex's domain during my Navy WestPac cruises back in the day. Must have been those hangovers ...
WTF?!? I could have sworn I saw mermaids throughout Neptunis Rex's domain during my Navy WestPac cruises back in the day. Must have been those hangovers ...
More references ...
“U.S. Government insists that mermaids do not exist”
http://io9.com/5923072/us-government-insists-that-mermaids-do-not-exist?tag=holy-crap-wtf
“NOAA Denies Existence of Mermaids”
http://news.discovery.com/animals/noaa-mermaids-120629.html
Anyone care to wager a guess as to how much was spent on this?
But we cut government to the bone!
Did they look in New Jersey?
Where did the idea come from?
Um, lonely sailors? They’re all reported as beautiful women.
Please tell me they aren’t spending money on this.
But as far as the question of the existence of "aquatic humans" is concerned, the phrase brings up the question of why humans, alone among all types of primates, possess a subcutaneous fat layer (like seals), narrow fin like connections between our fingers and toes, are not covered in fur, and have extraordinarily large brains (like dolphins and whales).
IMHO, paleontologists who dig up the bones of proto-chimps, gorillas, and baboons are looking in all the wrong places. What is with the seemingly instinctive affinity of Dolphins for humans (and vice versa - Japanese excepted)? If they could figure out where coastlines were a couple hundred thousand years ago, unfortunately now probably many miles offshore from the existing coast, they might at least be looking in the right spots.
Oh, baby. The rum goggles must have been pretty thick during the Age of Sail.
“Why, then, do they occupy the collective unconscious of nearly all seafaring peoples?”
What a stupid question. Seriously.
“Peoples” historically see mermaids because the “people” send the men to the sea.
So you tell me...why would a bunch of lonely seafaring guys wish there were hot women in the ocean?
Guess I’ll have to fund a study to find out.
NOAA missed this ABC news report ...
“Splash! Real-Life Mermaids Seek Beauty of Deep”
http://abcnews.go.com/2020/real-life-mermaids-superhumans/story?id=10771939
“Real-Life Mermaids: New Adventure in the Deep”
http://abcnews.go.com/2020/slideshow/underwater-activists-cavort-fish-raise-awareness-10778250
I smell a government cover-up!
: )
It's the Good People I'm worried about!
Now who should I believe - the government or the combined myths of ancient civilizations? That’s easy ;)
I heard in the time of Noah there were various human-animal cross breeding and DNA splicing experiments going on, resulting in many of these creatures' existence. Of course these would've all been wiped out in the flood, but maybe a few mermaids could've survived, water being their natural environment and all.
I just watched a fascinating piece on Discovery Channel called “Mermaids: The Body Found” that I highly recommend to everyone. The supposed documentary was made in 2011 and it is thought-provoking.
The program discusses the mass killings of whales due to some kind of sonar experiment by the U.S. Navy in 2004, but there was allegedly something else that washed up on the beach in Washington state after that event. They also discuss the remains of something interesting found in a Great White caught off South Africa.
One thing they mentioned that I had never heard before was that fish caught in nets, in the Baltic and other areas, occasionally are found with broken-off spears in their sides. Say what?
My skepticism gene kicked in while watching this, especially when they said the Navy is conducting a huge cover-up of their discovery, but I have to admit I enjoyed watching this.
And yeah, I share the same doubts — when the government denies something you can pretty much assume they’re lying.
Whoops! Guess I shoulda read the links first.
Still, “Mermaids: The Body Found” was a pretty good documentary, or mock-umentary, as the case may be. I do recommend it for amusing TV viewing.