airmac49, I agree with you. I don't think the other poster here or other posters on the board even get that some of us aren't disagreeing with them at some level. My husband and I are highly educated and our son is very intelligent. We care about the environment, especially the ocean. I don't always nitpick every detail of a film for historical accuracy, but some facts are what I'd call of "a material level" of importance.
I don't think these people even realize I'm so far removed from believing in mermaids (and old enough to have never seen The Little Mermaid) that I did not think they meant they were going to reveal a mermaid when they said something along the lines of "big news," but that perhaps there was something related to evolution they might reveal that is the kind of news that most people writing in all caps on this board never take the time to read anyway. I was simply interested in what they had to say thinking it had something to do with marine biology that they'd draw in viewers by using speculative science about mermaids. Instead, they did the opposite. They used real science to start off with then made a mockery of it to the point some don't believe it or don't realize the seriousness of it.
If speculation about mermaids brings children to a program to learn about real science then I'm for it the same way I for the icky, sickly sweet Lego for girls that get them interested in building, if that's what it takes. (The minifigures even have hands! Eek! Lol!) Instead, they've made a mockery of their entire channel, as far as I'm concerned. In fact, now that my son is getting older, but yet not "old enough" I'm more likely to start prohibiting channels like this now to keep the facts straight for him. He knows Star Wars is fake, yes, but this had too much of reality too close to home that matters to us that could make it confusing. We pay way to much for his education to fill his head with Animal Planet crap I now see.
The perfect human being is uninteresting. -Joseph Campbell
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unknown_soul278
10 years ago
I don't think it would be bad for kids to see this on video rather than on a science channel. In a different situation it would be easier to explain it is fiction, and things like this let kids have an open imagination which I think is very important as long as they learn the different in fiction and fact.
I don't believe in actual mermaids, but I do believe a lot of people have seen things they can't understand or comprehend, more in the ocean than anywhere else. Personally, I attribute the majority of historical accounts of mermaids to men who have been at sea for months without seeing a woman and having plenty of liquor along with malnutrition and dehydration. A man in that shape could easily see a woman in a pod of dolphins alongside their ship. But one knows what is really living or not living in the oceans and it is unlikely they ever will. I think a lot kraken sightings are real, but what they call a kraken we call an octopus or squid. I think it is possible for there to be octopi or squid as large as accounts of kraken but they aren't seen often; we don't know what is in the depths we can't get to or how big they can get. The ocean is a very big, very deep environment and I don't think we will every know much about what lives down there.
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