Mermaids - Animal Planet

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koonja

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I happened to watch this show today.

What the hell? They have a lot of footage. Has anyone dispelled any of these videos?

I can't believe I'm questioning this.
 

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I happened to watch this show today.

What the hell? They have a lot of footage. Has anyone dispelled any of these videos?

I can't believe I'm questioning this.

Are you serious dude? Really?
 

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I happened to watch this show today.

What the hell? They have a lot of footage. Has anyone dispelled any of these videos?

I can't believe I'm questioning this.

There's a thread somewhere. It's completely fake. People were pissed that Animal Planet did this but it worked, it got really good ratings when it first aired (good rating for Animal Planet).
 

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Mermaids aint real.
 
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Are you serious dude? Really?

Yeah, I'm serious. I mean, I don't know if they're legally allowed to show us made up footage. Are they? I honestly don't know.

I'm not saying there's intelligent life buried in the bottom of the ocean, but there could very well be webbed animal with a tail that resembles what people think the 'mermaid' is. I mean, we really don't know much about the ocean to this day. What's to say there's not an animal that has that body type?

There's a thread somewhere. It's completely fake. People were pissed that Animal Planet did this but it worked, it got really good ratings when it first aired (good rating for Animal Planet).

So they can openly make this footage up? How was that determined?
 

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The worst part is that this is a rerun. This came out a long time ago.

Jeebus chrimety, kuenja...lol
 

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Mermaids are real, keuhnja. Don't listen to the haters. They're the same idiots that are going to tell you the Easter Bunny, Santa Clause and Tooth Fairy are made up. #Hatersgonnahate.
 
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Thanks. That wiki article says this:

"According to the ending of the film, authors say that the only non-fiction elements shown in the film are:

The camera captures a fish with a spear thrown into it before a shadow goes past knocking the camera and the fish is gone
The image of the shark with all the spears thrown into it
The remains that came out of the shark
When the lifeguards go out to save somebody, the man in the water turns out to be a mermaids and swims out
The mermaid in Israel on the rocks before turning around and swimming off
Mermaid in the fishing net

Cave paintings about mermaids
legends about mermaids,
a mysterious sound currently under investigation by scientists (likely another species or a sound distortion)
an underwater sonic boom weapons test"

This show is making me lose my mind, but doesn't this mean that these parts are supposedly real?
 

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Kuehnja, it's time you and everyone else know: Mermaids are real and I am a Merman.

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Thanks. That wiki article says this:

"According to the ending of the film, authors say that the only non-fiction elements shown in the film are:

The camera captures a fish with a spear thrown into it before a shadow goes past knocking the camera and the fish is gone
The image of the shark with all the spears thrown into it
The remains that came out of the shark
When the lifeguards go out to save somebody, the man in the water turns out to be a mermaids and swims out
The mermaid in Israel on the rocks before turning around and swimming off
Mermaid in the fishing net

Cave paintings about mermaids
legends about mermaids,
a mysterious sound currently under investigation by scientists (likely another species or a sound distortion)
an underwater sonic boom weapons test"

This show is making me lose my mind, but doesn't this mean that these parts are supposedly real?

No, no it doesn't.
 

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On a related note. I am Aquaman.

Really. No foolin'. I'll provide photos for $2.50 a pop. $250.00 autographed.
 
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koonja

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How do they legally knowingly show fake footage and portray it as real, captured footage?

Is it no holds barred on these 'science' documentaries? They can make up as much as they want?

I just don't understand the rules. Is it determined by the company that owns the channel?
 

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How do they legally knowingly show fake footage and portray it as real, captured footage?

Is it no holds barred on these 'science' documentaries? They can make up as much as they want?

I just don't understand the rules. Is it determined by the company that owns the channel?

It's like Vietnam. There are no rules.
 
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koonja

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You guys are having too much fun with this.

I'm simply wondering what rules there are for presenting 'findings' in these documentaries. I wouldn't have expected Animal Planet or Discovery to tarnish their reputation by knowingly showing a documentary they knew to be completely made up.

I didn't know that there was no responsibility to the channel, viewers, or whoever else when knowingly showing 'made up footage;.
 

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You guys are having too much fun with this.

I'm simply wondering what rules there are for presenting 'findings' in these documentaries. I wouldn't have expected Animal Planet or Discovery to tarnish their reputation by knowingly showing a documentary they knew to be completely made up.

I didn't know that there was no responsibility to the channel, viewers, or whoever else when knowingly showing 'made up footage;.

It's TV there are no rules! The whole Myle Cyrus thing proves that. Lol.
 

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Is anybody else other than kuehnja even in the discussion right now for worst poster of the year?
 

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I think this is the straw that broke the camel's back.

BAN. KUEHNJA. FOREVER!
 
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