Did the Government really try and cover this up?
Area 51? Aliens? UFO's? Mermaids?
It wouldn't surprise me.
The special effects in this TV special are just incredible. I know that some are calling it a mockumentary or total fabrication and nonsense, but there are just too many facts and truths to simply be ignored.
what truths? At the end of the documentary it clearly states that all of it was fabricated and the only thing that was real was the bloops from the recordings (they say those remain a mystery).
Someone tasted my tongue and told me I tasted like the color crimson with a faint of violet.
It really scares me that people stupid enough to believe this crap is real are allowed to walk around freely. If it were up to me, anyone that believed in ghosts, Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, and all that crap or thinks that there's an extra-terrestrial spacecraft in Area 51 would be locked up in pens and zoos and used for hard labor, scientific experiments, and food.
shareRemind me not to save a seat for you on the spaceship, just makes more room for BF and his family. Nessie has her own tank and the ghosts just slip in where ever. We'll send you a postcard from the mothership!
shareWhile I don't believe in any of the creatures/conspiracies you mentioned, there were people like you who used to feel much the same as you about people who believed in platypuses, modern coelocanths, gorillas, okapi, giant pandas, giraffes, giant squids, komodo dragons, and many more animals. Science used to disregard them as myths, but we know much better now.
There are some things in this world that truly blow the mind, so why shut it off and shut others down?
...Don't look now, but I think the monotremes are out to get me...
As a biologist that works on fish acoustics, I am honestly offended by how ridiculous this is. I am incredibly concerned by programming like this...people already struggle so much with science and the idea they would believe this is insane.
sharetypical terrestrial biped :)
share the bloop sounds are real, it is several times louder than the largest animal ever recorded (the blue whale).
they still don't know what makes the bloop sounds, it does resemble a living creature, if it is, how big would it have to be to make that loud of a sound???
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My husband is about twice my size. Guess which one of us is the loudest?
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Meh. I can appreciate your loyalty to your discipline, but science fiction has often inspired actual scientific research and interest. Look at Star Trek. The sheer amount of techno-babble and pseudo-physics would make a physicist bleed from the ears, but it inspired people to develop new technology and space exploration that made some of those things possible today. Just because a fictional show is not completely scientifically accurate does not mean that it should be dismissed as garbage for that sole reason.
While Mermaids is hardly on the level of Star Trek, shows like this can pique peoples' interest in the deep ocean and what might still be undiscovered, even if there are no real mermaids.
I'm with this guy. Yes, the basis of this particular show was pretty much BS, but they presented it as almost a "What if?" scenario. The Aquatic Ape theory is pretty out there and hard to believe.....but it does somewhat follow the guidelines of evolution. Is it possible? Yes, maybe.....but is it probable? No, not really.
I do believe, however, that there are some large, undiscovered creatures still left in the ocean (it's so unbelievably huge) and I do think that this show will open up some people's minds to the extent that they will want to explore the oceans further themselves...so, no harm no foul in that regard
Butttttt.....
It is kind of disturbing that they can just claim that these actors are actually professional scientists that worked for NOAH. It really discredits actual scientists in the marine field because who knows who to believe about what anymore???....Has anyone asked NOAH what they think about their organization being slandered in this manner? I'd be interested to hear what they think about all this.
I think they needed to make it more clear that it was a fictional "documentary," they just had some very small-print words at the end, and did not make it clear all the "scientists" were actors.
shareAs others have stated already the Bloop sound is actually real. It was an EXTREMELY LOUD ultra low frequency sound heard throughout a 3000 mile radius in 1997 that was captured by the NOAA. It has nothing to do with this bullsh*t mermaid science fiction mockumentary. They just used the Bloop noise and exploited it for this "documentary" >_>
shareIt goes without saying that this program was almost complete fiction. Certainly everything in it having to do with mermaids was absolute fiction (they managed to correctly represent some non-fictional details about whales).
But even before they got to the really fantastical elements--before any reveals of the purported mermaid remains, etc.--this was obviously fake. It was as plain as day that the purported "real life" scientists speaking to the audience against black screens were actors. They did not speak, emote or inflect naturally; they were obviously working from a script and their behaviors were cloaked in the kind of self-consciousness that attaches to all performances. You can just tell. Did anyone really watch this thing and not pick up on that?
I could only think of really crappy early morning infomercials when the "Scientists" were talking LOL
shareThe administration is just hiding evidence of them until it can figure out a way to bring them in as voting citizens!
shareIt's completely fake, you idiot.
shareAnd the best way for the government to cover something up is....by getting Animal Planet to make a documentary about it?
Funny how conspiracy theorists lack the basic concept of logic.
If they wanted to cover something up, wouldn't it make more sense to NOT have anything public about it? The best kept secrets are those that no one knows about