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ValuJet said:
Just curious - what's the difference between older mermaid stuff and newer mermaid stuff? My daughter went through a mermaid phase a couple of years ago
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I am guessing they had "more footage" that for some reason they did not show the first time in their little fake documentary. Maybe they improved the graphics so that it looked more real? Maybe they had video of the mermaid getting wasted with Bigfoot? Maybe they had more video of the mermaids and megaladon?
 
nx4bama said:
mythical creatures? I don't have an opinion about any of them. There are some of them that I wouldn't rule out because there are a lot of critters that aren't supposed to exist... until they do (celacanth (sp?)).
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The list is long.

Coelacanth
Devil Bird (Spot-Bellied Eagle Owl)
Kangaroo
Platypus
Sea Serpent (Oarfish)
Komodo Dragon
Mountain Gorilla
Okapi
Kraken (Giant Squid)

All of these animals were once completely dismissed by science and widely believed to be just as mythical as Bigfoot or just as extinct as Tyrannosaurus Rex. So I'm willing to entertain the possibility in some cases.

The soul of science is skepticism - without it, science couldn't prove a thing. But once proven, myth becomes reality.

My wife came home one day swearing she saw a hairless carnivorous looking animal standing on a dirt road that darted into the woods as her car approached. She said it wasn't a dog but was dog-like, and scared the bejeezus out of her. I showed her a picture of what chupacabra is supposed to look like. She said - yes, that was what she saw. I then showed her a picture of a coyote with mange without telling her what the image was. She said yes, that was exactly what she saw.

I had an old military buddy who told me a story of when he flew over a jungle in a helicopter over South America - I don't remember where: Colombia maybe? Anyway, he swore up and down that they came upon a clearing and looked down and saw what he could only describe as a brontosaurus type creature - a huge, long-necked dinosaur. This wasn't a guy who was predisposed to making things up. Do I think he actually saw a dinosaur in the jungle? No. But who knows? He saw something. And like my wife, he could have translated something he had never seen before into terms that he could understand.
 
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chanson78 said:
I believe that somewhere, out in this great wide world, I will find a humble AU fan. Everyone keeps telling me they don't exist, but I keep believing and hoping that maybe one day our paths will cross. So far my search has proven fruitless.
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There are two. I've met them. One was in my class from kindergarten through HS, & the other is her hubby. (Both are Auburn grads, finishing in the early 80s) They continue to amaze me with their kindness, humility, & graciousness, even in '10 & this year. The guy didn't watch the IB; told me he didn't think they had a chance.

So, yeah, they're out there. Although, it occurs to me that my friends might be the entirety of the species... ;)
 
exiledNms said:
There are two. I've met them. One was in my class from kindergarten through HS, & the other is her hubby. (Both are Auburn grads, finishing in the early 80s) They continue to amaze me with their kindness, humility, & graciousness, even in '10 & this year. The guy didn't watch the IB; told me he didn't think they had a chance.

So, yeah, they're out there. Although, it occurs to me that my friends might be the entirety of the species... ;)
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This is NOT proof. A guy who doesn't even bother to watch to most anticipated IB in four decades does NOT qualify as a fan.
 
PacadermaTideUs said:
The list is long.

Coelacanth
Devil Bird (Spot-Bellied Eagle Owl)
Kangaroo
Platypus
Sea Serpent (Oarfish)
Komodo Dragon
Mountain Gorilla
Okapi
Kraken (Giant Squid)

All of these animals were once completely dismissed by science and widely believed to be just as mythical as Bigfoot or just as extinct as Tyrannosaurus Rex. So I'm willing to entertain the possibility in some cases.

The soul of science is skepticism - without it, science couldn't prove a thing. But once proven, myth becomes reality.
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Science "completely dismissed" the existence of kangaroos?:eek: How long ago was that.

FWIW, kangaroos supposedly dont fart.
 
For the fun of it a friend and I "haunted" an old house for years. When it was vacant we would sneak in via a trap door that allowed the owner to get into the crawl space from inside, and hang out. When it wasn't we had all kinds of tricks set up. We had a brick carved out in the chimney where we could insert a radio or chains or bells or any kind of sound we wanted. My friend was a bit of a tech guy and found a way to wire in a potentiometer so we could dim the lights. we would crawl under the house and make the boards creak like someone was walking through.

From my experience if someone tells you your house is haunted whether before or after you experience something, start looking for teenage boys sneaking around your place.
 
Bamaro said:
Science "completely dismissed" the existence of kangaroos?:eek: How long ago was that.

FWIW, kangaroos supposedly dont fart.
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Early explorers to Australia in the 18th century described animals that stood upright like men, had heads like deer and hopped like frogs. Some of these animals appeared to have two heads - one on top of the trunk and one on the belly. Leaders of the European scientific community dismissed these claims and ridiculed their colleagues who'd reported them. It wasn't until a dead kangaroo was brought back to England that the experts accepted that the animal existed. And it was only then that the experts realized that what was thought to be the animal's "second head" was of course only a juvenile in its mother's pouch (marsupials weren't known at the time).

Long time ago, to be sure. The point however is that everything is unknown until it is known. And often, new claims of unknown species are met with ridicule by the established experts within a discipline until they're forced by an actual specimen to accept the claim. All of the creatures I listed were at one time regarded by science to be no more real and no less worthy of ridicule than Bigfoot or Nessie. The mountain gorilla was mythical until one was shot in 1902. The Komodo Dragon was mythical until an American expedition returned with 12 dead ones (and 2 living) in 1926. The Coelacanth was no less extinct than Tyrannosaurus Rex until a fisherman sold a fresh specimen at market in 1938.

Do I believe in Yeti? No. But if the scientific establishment suddenly reversed course due to discovery and subsequent irrefutable documentation of a small population of previously undescribed large bipedal primates living in an unscientifically explored remote valley in the Himalayan wilderness, I wouldn't be totally shocked either.

But I would fully expect that before that valley was scientifically explored in search of Yeti, a native hunter would have to hand-deliver a fresh carcass to the Department of Science and Technology in New Delhi.
 
DzynKingRTR said:
yep all these channels seem to show are 50 different "ghost hunter" type shows, psychic shows, and finding bigfoot or other creatures that do not exist. I have a former coworker that really believes in the existence of Bigfoot. I made a $1000 bet with him that Bigfoot does not exist. He actually thinks I will have to pay him one day.
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Time to pay up. I have a feeling this time it will for realsies.
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2014/01/06/bigfoot-hunter-claims-to-have-killed-beast-and-has-proof/?intcmp=features
 
G-VilleTider said:
Time to pay up. I have a feeling this time it will for realsies.
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2014/01/06/bigfoot-hunter-claims-to-have-killed-beast-and-has-proof/?intcmp=features
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so a guy who lied in the past says this time it is real?

I am going to take a wild guess and say he will be charging admission for viewing the creature?
 
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