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There're no Mermaids, US government says
Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2012 9:04 pm
by Super Aurora
There is no evidence that mermaids exist, a US government scientific agency has said.
The National Ocean Service made the unusual declaration in response to public inquiries following a TV show on the mythical creatures.
It is thought some viewers may have mistaken the programme for a documentary.
"No evidence of aquatic humanoids has ever been found," the service wrote in an online post.
The National Ocean Service posted an article last week on its educational website, Ocean Facts.
Images and tales of mermaids - half-human, half-fish - appear in mythology and art from across the world and through history, from Homer's Odyssey to the oral lore of the Australian aboriginals, the service wrote.
The article was written from publicly available sources because "we don't have a mermaid science programme", National Ocean Service spokeswoman Carol Kavanagh told the BBC.
She said that at least two people had written to the agency asking about the creatures.
The inquiries followed May's broadcast of Mermaids: The Body Found, on the Discovery Channel's Animal Planet network.
The programme was a work of fiction but its wink-and-nod format apparently led some viewers to believe it was a science education show, the Discovery Channel has acknowledged
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18692830
There ya go folks. Ariel sadly isn't real.
Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2012 9:28 pm
by estefan
Doesn't the US government have more important things to do? Like creating a universal healthcare plan or something?
Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2012 9:29 pm
by TheValentineBros
NUUUUUU! Not Ariel the mermaid!
Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2012 9:43 pm
by Semaj
Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2012 10:23 pm
by jazzflower92
estefan wrote:Doesn't the US government have more important things to do? Like creating a universal healthcare plan or something?
It does have something better to do but then again this is the US government we are talking about.Their pirorities seem to be sometimes out of wack.The again this does give me a chance to laugh at them for their stupidity.
Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2012 11:18 pm
by SpringHeelJack
...well, in their defense, it's not like it was an edict handed out from the west wing or something, it was just the National Ocean Service. And I mean, what else do they have to do? We've already found all the oceans.
Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2012 11:20 pm
by SWillie!
SpringHeelJack wrote:We've already found all the oceans.
That's exactly what they want you to think.
Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2012 11:25 pm
by SpringHeelJack
...Let me rephrase that, I've already found all the oceans, including the Iowan, the Hyperpacific, and the Great Moon Sea. And thirty-six new colors that only I can see.
Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 12:49 am
by Kyle
I was fooled. Have any of you actually seen the "documentary"? I did a few weeks back, it seemed real to me. I know they do fake ones on dinosaurs, but the way they were talking about mermaids seemed perfectly plausible, even if there was some laughable over the top moments.
(the narrator asks about what somone discovered)
"Hands. *excesively long dramatic pause* They were hands"
I didn't see the very beginning but they don't make it clear that its all just a work of fiction, even if I did have a skeptical mind throughout the thing.
Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 6:32 am
by bradhig
Maybe they wiped out by Ursula or the Daleks.
Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 1:48 pm
by Flanger-Hanger
Mermaids ARE real. If you BELIEVE in their MAGIC.
Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 1:58 pm
by Mooky
I luv Mermaids Lyk Nething...They R Beautiful n Mysterious vd Charm n Magical Powers!!!
Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 2:11 pm
by 271286
This is an insult to US tax payers!!
Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 7:13 pm
by Super Aurora
All this tells me is that the Ariel in DL/WDW are fake.
Disney must be working for the government. Those sneaky bastards.
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2012 12:11 am
by Barbossa
Hogwash! We got a mummified merman corpse here in Alberta, Banff actually:
Here's his story:
http://www.canada.com/topics/travel/sto ... d1e48e806c
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2012 1:40 am
by ICspotsM
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2012 11:12 am
by Vlad
estefan wrote:Doesn't the US government have more important things to do? Like creating a universal healthcare plan or something?
Well at least, the US government doesn't have any members accused of plagiarism, like our dear Romanian government.
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2012 2:36 pm
by DisneyDude2010
Don't lie to Us
Hahaha! I do find it funny that they would actually make a report, but the World is a crazy place!
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2012 9:09 pm
by Disney Duster
Kyle wrote:I was fooled. Have any of you actually seen the "documentary"? I did a few weeks back, it seemed real to me. I know they do fake ones on dinosaurs, but the way they were talking about mermaids seemed perfectly plausible, even if there was some laughable over the top moments.
(the narrator asks about what somone discovered)
"Hands. *excesively long dramatic pause* They were hands"
I didn't see the very beginning but they don't make it clear that its all just a work of fiction, even if I did have a skeptical mind throughout the thing.
I had heard that it was done to seem like a real documuntary, so yea, I could see lots of people going 'What, really?" when catching just bits of this thing.
