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The US's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has been obliged to issue a statement clarifying that "no evidence of aquatic humanoids has ever been found", in the face of a tidal wave of citizens calling to demand the truth about mermaids. The Roswell-style conspiracy theory kicked off after Animal Planet …

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    1. Piloti
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      Re: Oh, and one more thing...

      .... and there in lay the logic of people......

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  2. Paul Hovnanian Silver badge

    After a few months at sea, even a manatee looks pretty good to some people. Why spoil their fantasy?

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  3. notIvy431

    REALY?

    Doesn't seem like the trolls even watched the show. Well I watched it, and yes, there is fantasy in the show, the same way the shows about what alien type residents there may be on other plants from some scientific theory they have. Speculation on what the sounds they heard. The underwater sea linguist specialist said they were unknown sounds that had an intelligent pattern, thousands of individual sounds. What bothers me is the NOAH scientists recorded these sounds after not being able to find out what the government was doing with all their equipment on the beach, and when reporting their findings they were fired. The other part that has me curious was fishermen in deep waters finding spears of freshly speared fish. I am not sure what the government was trying to cover up, but have a feeling it had nothing to do with Mermaid/half human type creatures, but the facts of the destruction they did to the marine life after their sonic detonations. They are planning on a lot more of this recently and this will harm and destroy a lot of marine mammals and possibly other aquatic creatures. To the trolls on here how about posting something a little more intelligent than bonking a mermaid, LOL

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  4. jake Silver badge

    And it's not even Friday ... Ta, ElReg :-)

    The ignorance of TheGreatUnwashed[tm] really blows my mind sometimes.

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    1. NomNomNom
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      Re: And it's not even Friday ... Ta, ElReg :-)

      I disagree, I think we are now very knowledgeable about the great unwashed

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      1. jake Silver badge
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        Re: And it's not even Friday ... Ta, ElReg :-)

        Knowledgeable, yes. But it still blows my mind that people are so intentionally, willfully & even stubbornly ignorant.

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  5. Kharkov
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    What? They're saying mermaids aren't real?

    Nonsense! Why, back in the late 80's, when I was a paladin operating out of Waterdeep on Toril with my wizard & cleric pals, my key informant on pirate activities was a beautiful red-haired mermaid!

    It was a long time ago now but I remember it so it must be true...

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  6. Chris Sake

    It's a conspiracy

    based on the image that led to this scholarly article:

    http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/vza1s/thats_enough_internet_for_today/

    (It probably would be of benefit to understand the reddit tagging scheme.)

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  7. mhenriday
    Pint

    Did those mermaids - and mermen, I piously hope -

    have a special cabin on the Ark, or were they towed ?...

    Henri

    PS : And what about Esther Williams ? And wet T-shirts ? Has the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration also denied their existence ? These chaps are destroying my childhood and youth !...

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