New Nessie Photo

[secretlyevil]

Scottish Sailor Claims to Have Best Picture Yet Of Loch Ness Monster

gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/scottish-sailor-claims-best-picture-yet-loch-ness-100057921--abc-news-topstories.html

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proof of creationism

[lilmgirl]

Real or not, stories like this in general are fascinating. Big Foot, crop circles (ones were just reported a couple weeks about an hour away from me), etc.

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Aug 15, 2012 10:47:36 GMT -5 lilmgirl said:

Real or not, stories like this in general are fascinating. Big Foot, crop circles (ones were just reported a couple weeks about an hour away from me), etc.

This is how I feel! I'm so interested in these things. It's like, i'm sure nessie isn't real. But maybe, just maybe....?

[wawa]

Aug 15, 2012 10:49:33 GMT -5 @mrsbecky07 said:

Aug 15, 2012 10:47:36 GMT -5 lilmgirl said:

Real or not, stories like this in general are fascinating. Big Foot, crop circles (ones were just reported a couple weeks about an hour away from me), etc.

This is how I feel! I'm so interested in these things. It's like, i'm sure nessie isn't real. But maybe, just maybe....?

the world is full of strange and fantastic things. I believe in the possibility of damn near anything.

[meshaliuknits]

"Champ is a picture of a log. Nessie is a toy submarine with a head made of plastic wood. Ogopogo is a plesiosaur. A f*cking pleiosaur!"

I will marry and knit for whomever can properly identify that quote.

[pinkeggs]

Aug 15, 2012 10:59:45 GMT -5 asdfjkl said:

I have no opinion on this, but has anyone else seen that show "Mermaids" on Discovery (or maybe History) channel? I kinda believe it.

Also, there is nothing about the loch ness monster (other than its silly name) that makes me think it doesn't exist. We have not cataloged the entire sea. Not even close.

Yes! I saw that mermaid show and it freaked me out! I also completely believe the military would do something like that.

[ttt]

Aug 15, 2012 10:59:45 GMT -5 asdfjkl said:

I have no opinion on this, but has anyone else seen that show "Mermaids" on Discovery (or maybe History) channel? I kinda believe it.

Also, there is nothing about the loch ness monster (other than its silly name) that makes me think it doesn't exist. We have not cataloged the entire sea. Not even close.

Ditto this. We know more about the moon than we do about our own oceans. There is a lot we haven't discovered about our world yet.

[meshaliuknits]

Aug 15, 2012 11:11:56 GMT -5 pinkeggs said:

Aug 15, 2012 10:59:45 GMT -5 asdfjkl said:

I have no opinion on this, but has anyone else seen that show "Mermaids" on Discovery (or maybe History) channel? I kinda believe it.

Also, there is nothing about the loch ness monster (other than its silly name) that makes me think it doesn't exist. We have not cataloged the entire sea. Not even close.

Yes! I saw that mermaid show and it freaked me out! I also completely believe the military would do something like that.

Do something like what? Tell!

[pinkeggs]

Aug 15, 2012 11:13:14 GMT -5 meshaliuknits said:

Aug 15, 2012 11:11:56 GMT -5 pinkeggs said:

Yes! I saw that mermaid show and it freaked me out! I also completely believe the military would do something like that.

Do something like what? Tell!

Supposedly the Navy had captured a beached mermaid when there was a mass beaching of whales as the result of an underwater sonic boom (which the navy caused). They allegedly kept it alive from 2004-2007.

The group of marine biologists that were studying the mass beaching ended up in South Africa and found what they concluded to be the remains of a mermaid in the stomach of a shark, as well as a mermaid tool, which have been found for centuries in the water. They had everything from bones to DNA, but then when they were in the process of doing the paperwork to have it all brought back to the U.S., the navy went in early in the morning to that lab and confiscated ALL of it.

It sounds fluffy, but the documentary was FASCINATING, with interviews with the original marine biology team as well as people who worked at the S African lab at the time of the confiscation, as well as navy members whose identities were hidden.

[secretlyevil]

Aug 15, 2012 11:11:56 GMT -5 pinkeggs said:

Aug 15, 2012 10:59:45 GMT -5 asdfjkl said:

I have no opinion on this, but has anyone else seen that show "Mermaids" on Discovery (or maybe History) channel? I kinda believe it.

Also, there is nothing about the loch ness monster (other than its silly name) that makes me think it doesn't exist. We have not cataloged the entire sea. Not even close.

Yes! I saw that mermaid show and it freaked me out! I also completely believe the military would do something like that.

Do what? I haven't seen it. I want to know.

[marie427]

Aug 15, 2012 11:17:39 GMT -5 pinkeggs said:

Supposedly the Navy had captured a beached mermaid when there was a mass beaching of whales as the result of an underwater sonic boom (which the navy caused). They allegedly kept it alive from 2004-2007.

The group of marine biologists that were studying the mass beaching ended up in South Africa and found what they concluded to be the remains of a mermaid in the stomach of a shark, as well as a mermaid tool, which have been found for centuries in the water. They had everything from bones to DNA, but then when they were in the process of doing the paperwork to have it all brought back to the U.S., the navy went in early in the morning to that lab and confiscated ALL of it.

It sounds fluffy, but the documentary was FASCINATING, with interviews with the original marine biology team as well as people who worked at the S African lab at the time of the confiscation, as well as navy members whose identities were hidden.

OMG!!!

[pinkeggs]

Aug 15, 2012 11:16:04 GMT -5 asdfjkl said:

Aug 15, 2012 11:11:56 GMT -5 pinkeggs said:

Yes! I saw that mermaid show and it freaked me out! I also completely believe the military would do something like that.

Okay, so I finally found someone else who has seen it!!!

Those were actors right? Or were they the real researchers, but they had just put together a script first. The dude was pretty convincing, but the woman was not terribly believable in her "this is off the cuff" ums.

But that aside, the argument about how all societies of mermaid myths and all the mermaids look relatively the same even though the cultures haven't intermingled... AND the evolutionary argument about how it's possible, that got me dusting off my tin foil hat.

My DH has a masters in cultural anthro and he said that the theory of the aquatic ape is not new, but there are a lot of problems with it, scientifically speaking. Although the consistency in the tools that have been found in the ocean for so many years stumped him.

I liked how the mermaids weren't portrayed as the gorgeous sirens you see in myths and stories. This was more believable to me. Although they scared me lol

As for whether or not they were actors...maybe? I guess it wouldn't be hard to google them and find out. There certainly were a lot of convincing details in the story.

I've always had a fondness for mermaid myths, so I would like to think that they do exist. As was mentioned, we have scratched the surface with our ocean knowledge.

[dcannie]

Aug 15, 2012 11:16:04 GMT -5 asdfjkl said:

Aug 15, 2012 11:11:56 GMT -5 pinkeggs said:

Yes! I saw that mermaid show and it freaked me out! I also completely believe the military would do something like that.

Okay, so I finally found someone else who has seen it!!!

Those were actors right? Or were they the real researchers, but they had just put together a script first. The dude was pretty convincing, but the woman was not terribly believable in her "this is off the cuff" ums.

But that aside, the argument about how all societies of mermaid myths and all the mermaids look relatively the same even though the cultures haven't intermingled... AND the evolutionary argument about how it's possible, that got me dusting off my tin foil hat.

it was a mockumentary/docufiction. they were actors. the woman was absolutely awful.

www.imdb.com/title/tt1816585/

[twotrue]

Aug 15, 2012 10:59:03 GMT -5 meshaliuknits said:

"Champ is a picture of a log. Nessie is a toy submarine with a head made of plastic wood. Ogopogo is a plesiosaur. A f*cking pleiosaur!"

I will marry and knit for whomever can properly identify that quote.

I googled for the answer. The Venture Brothers. Can I just get the knitting? I'm good on the marriage thing. ;-)

[pinkeggs]

Aug 15, 2012 11:23:03 GMT -5 dcannie said:

Aug 15, 2012 11:16:04 GMT -5 asdfjkl said:

Okay, so I finally found someone else who has seen it!!!

Those were actors right? Or were they the real researchers, but they had just put together a script first. The dude was pretty convincing, but the woman was not terribly believable in her "this is off the cuff" ums.

But that aside, the argument about how all societies of mermaid myths and all the mermaids look relatively the same even though the cultures haven't intermingled... AND the evolutionary argument about how it's possible, that got me dusting off my tin foil hat.

it was a mockumentary/docufiction. they were actors. the woman was absolutely awful.

www.imdb.com/title/tt1816585/

Figures. The girl was bad.

It was still fascinating lol

[Daria Morgandorffer]

Dude, I've got to see this documentary. Anyone remember the name?

[dcannie]

i think the sonar blasts killing the whales was true. maybe they found a new marine species, but not a mermaid/man.

eta: i should add that i stopped watching w/in the first 15 minutes. when the female "researcher" began to speak i realized it was fake so i started reading my book while h continued to be enthralled. even when confronted w/ the imdb page he is sure it was all real.

[meshaliuknits]

Aug 15, 2012 11:23:46 GMT -5 twotrue said:

Aug 15, 2012 10:59:03 GMT -5 meshaliuknits said:

"Champ is a picture of a log. Nessie is a toy submarine with a head made of plastic wood. Ogopogo is a plesiosaur. A f*cking pleiosaur!"

I will marry and knit for whomever can properly identify that quote.

I googled for the answer. The Venture Brothers. Can I just get the knitting? I'm good on the marriage thing. ;-)

LOL Cheaters don't profit!

[twotrue]

Aug 15, 2012 11:32:10 GMT -5 meshaliuknits said:

Aug 15, 2012 11:23:46 GMT -5 twotrue said:

I googled for the answer. The Venture Brothers. Can I just get the knitting? I'm good on the marriage thing. ;-)

LOL Cheaters don't profit!

Damn! I was hoping this would score me a fish hat

[IIOY]

I spent much of my childhood fascinated by the Bermuda Triangle. It nearly killed me to find out that it's probably just ocean currents and weather patterns.

[marie427]

I thought the Bermuda Triangle was actually a triangle drawn somehow on the ocean and thought WTF would people try and go into it when they can see the lines of the triangle drawn on the ocean and thus know to stay the hell out of that area???

I was a dumb kid.

[meshaliuknits]

Aug 15, 2012 11:34:44 GMT -5 twotrue said:

Aug 15, 2012 11:32:10 GMT -5 meshaliuknits said:

LOL Cheaters don't profit!

Damn! I was hoping this would score me a fish hat

You know, you might be in luck if you want a blue fish hat.

The one I knit doesn't fit my nephew, so I have to make another one for him. And my kid's head is bigger than her cousin, despite being 3 years younger.

[IIOY]

Aug 15, 2012 11:53:12 GMT -5 marie427 said:

I thought the Bermuda Triangle was actually a triangle drawn somehow on the ocean and thought WTF would people try and go into it when they can see the lines of the triangle drawn on the ocean and thus know to stay the hell out of that area???

I was a dumb kid.

I don't know that I ever thought there were visible lines, but I did wonder why on earth anyone would sail or fly through the area knowing about its history. Apparently statistics and geography were not my strong suits as a child.

The fact that my parents had a bad experience flying through the area totally built up the myth for me.

[meshaliuknits]

Aug 15, 2012 12:23:49 GMT -5 toledo said:

I missed the Mermaids crapumentary, but I did hear the John Oliver podcast report on it. lol. It was hysterical. The NOAA actually had to release a statement denying any knowledge of the existence of mermaids.

And if anyone wants to hear it, I actually found the exact snippet. Worth it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3K6wjFaPNc

Thank you so much for this link!

[twotrue]

Aug 15, 2012 12:01:23 GMT -5 meshaliuknits said:

Aug 15, 2012 11:34:44 GMT -5 twotrue said:

Damn! I was hoping this would score me a fish hat

You know, you might be in luck if you want a blue fish hat.

The one I knit doesn't fit my nephew, so I have to make another one for him. And my kid's head is bigger than her cousin, despite being 3 years younger.

My kid has a huge noggin' too. But if does end up being an extra I will gladly measure her head and send you some cash if it fits.

[meshaliuknits]

Aug 15, 2012 12:32:46 GMT -5 twotrue said:

Aug 15, 2012 12:01:23 GMT -5 meshaliuknits said:

You know, you might be in luck if you want a blue fish hat.

The one I knit doesn't fit my nephew, so I have to make another one for him. And my kid's head is bigger than her cousin, despite being 3 years younger.

My kid has a huge noggin' too. But if does end up being an extra I will gladly measure her head and send you some cash if it fits.

Nephew will be by on Sat, so I'll let you know Mon if it's extra.