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Mad Monk
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US officially denies mermaids exist

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Pinched from the BBC:
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

http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/mermaids.html

Now the cynic in me says "Don't believe anything the Government says, until it has been officially denied." :twisted:
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Re: US officially denies mermaids exist

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This is almost as good as the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's http://blogs.cdc.gov/publichealthmatter ... pocalypse/
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Kando wrote:This is almost as good as the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's http://blogs.cdc.gov/publichealthmatter ... pocalypse/
finnaly government spending i can appreciate.... no really :)
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Re: US officially denies mermaids exist

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Its a cover up . Like the Roswell files and area 51 . i know this to be true.............yes i am wearing my tin foil hat as well.
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Re: US officially denies mermaids exist

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I thought the CDC Zombie thing was a legit, though admittedly tongue in cheek, an example of attempting to contain and control a disease as well as advise on surviving a epidemic/pandemic outbreak. While silly (Zombies!?), I thought the CDC really put this thing out as general safety and preparedness advice, the zombie part being a marketing gimmick to help get attention.
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agreed it might draw attention for it and its a lot of fun... suggest reading the comments on the website there.... its really funny
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