U.S. government denies existence of mermaids

Narrowminded bureaucrats. They obviously haven't seen that latest Pirates of the Caribbean documentary.

:p

Hix
 
Nooo.... right in the childhood.

Are they gonna announce that Bigfoot doesn't exist next?

:(
 
Also breaking news is that on last nights 'Finding Bigfoot' Programme Discovery Channel (UK 10pm) they now have evidence of a 'Squatch'.

The team where up in the Rockies in Canada (a cracking place to look if you ask me). Upon speaking to the locals to find a good point of starting to search etc, after carefully selecting their location (The Rockies take up a fair amount of area you see), a bloke from the Finding Bigfoot team at night in the woodlands let out a call like that of a Bigfoot/Squatch. (He knew how to do this as he had heard one previously)
Astonishingly within seconds he heard a call back from a Squatch within the thick woodland. It must have been hiding behind a tree (shy) as nothing showed up on the thermal imaging camera.
To further back this story up, the same guy let out another call a few days later, but this time in a different area again at night and heard back a call from a pack of coyotes. Apparently the Coyotes where calling as Coyotes often scavenge carcasses after Squatch’s have killed (probably a species of deer). So upon hearing the Coyotes the Finding Bigfoot man automatically knew that there must be a Squatch in the area around him. All really clever stuff.
 
Also breaking news is that on last nights 'Finding Bigfoot' Programme Discovery Channel (UK 10pm) they now have evidence of a 'Squatch'.

The team where up in the Rockies in Canada (a cracking place to look if you ask me). Upon speaking to the locals to find a good point of starting to search etc, after carefully selecting their location (The Rockies take up a fair amount of area you see), a bloke from the Finding Bigfoot team at night in the woodlands let out a call like that of a Bigfoot/Squatch. (He knew how to do this as he had heard one previously)
Astonishingly within seconds he heard a call back from a Squatch within the thick woodland. It must have been hiding behind a tree (shy) as nothing showed up on the thermal imaging camera.
To further back this story up, the same guy let out another call a few days later, but this time in a different area again at night and heard back a call from a pack of coyotes. Apparently the Coyotes where calling as Coyotes often scavenge carcasses after Squatch’s have killed (probably a species of deer). So upon hearing the Coyotes the Finding Bigfoot man automatically knew that there must be a Squatch in the area around him. All really clever stuff.
and you know what will happen now? Nothing, that's what. These brave guys (and girl) put their lives on the line howling in the night, provide irrefutable evidence of sasquatch existence, and the government will just sweep it under the carpet, like they do with everything else. Its all politics.
 
That's it. All of my childhood dreams, just crushed:( Thanks Obama, you just couldn't let us have this one dream?

Don't you believe in this "They don't exist" nonsense from the government, they are just extremely rare these days.

However, if you do want to see a real (albeit dead) Mermaid, just Google Mummified Mermaids and there are plenty of examples. One current experiment is to try to extract DNA from a mummified specimen.
 
Pootle said:
One current experiment is to try to extract DNA from a mummified specimen.
from what I've read I understand they are going to try an use a sea otter as a surrogate to incubate the mermaid embryo if their attempt succeeds.
 
In other news, it's the 65th anniversary of the Roswell UFO crash:
65 years later, still no little green men at Roswell, N.M. - latimes.com

One of the docents at my zoo grew up in Roswell and was there at the time of the crash. She was in a store downtown and they heard it and by the time they decided to go out and see what happened, the government already had it blocked off. BTW if you ever drive through Roswell, the free UFO Museum is hilarious - the gift shop alone is worth the stop. There is also a small and free zoo in town (no aliens).
 
I just watched the two-hour mermaid "documentary" Mermaids: The Body Found which was the impetus for the press release from NOAA denying the existance of mermaids. And that's two hours of my life I'll never get back :(

At first I wasn't sure whether the whole thing was a hoax documentary or if it was a documentary about deluded people. The screen labels saying "actual recording" and "actual footage" made it seem the latter, but it very soon became clear it was in fact the former. The whaleologists were quite obviously actors reading scripts and trying very hard to emote. Also one of the scientists was the guy from alien movie District 9....

The thing that rather grated is that it was on Animal Planet (and also apparently on Discovery Channel) - which shouldn't be playing fake documentaries at all! Also they used the real institutions of NOAA and the Smithsonian. Hence the press release by NOAA saying mermaids weren't real. Apparently there were people who believed it.

Worth watching for the sheer mind-numbing stupidity of it, but otherwise save your time.
 
I wonder if mermaids make documentaries about whether humans exist?

Quite a valid question actually, because the Mermaids that do exist currently exist in a different dimension, so in their dimension we don't exist physically. As dimensions can overlap from time to time (wormholes maybe), it is possible a mermaid has seen a human. One unfortuate mermaid must have crossed a time and space dimension and ended in the fishing net.

Off Mermaid topic - Sasquatches maybe similar but all I can say on that matter is that frying bacon out in the woods is not as safe as it would seem, nod nod wink wink to those in the know ;);)
 
but how would mermaids make documentaries because they don't appear to have electricity or video cameras? Perhaps they have old-school skills, and make temporary documentaries on the sea floor from shells and walrus bones.
 
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