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Are they real?

kirstin_blatzheim — 2015-09-25 12:55:10 UTC

Mermaids, the creature that is half human and half fish, are real. We find this in several instances, from all over the world.

But we haven't found them so they must not be real.

2015-09-27 01:44:29 UTC

There are several holes in this approach when dealing with mermaids. For one, people are constantly making new discoveries, but this does not mean that the discovery was not real before. When Columbus "found" America, it didn't mean that America simply didn't exist before, it just wasn't known about. In the same way, just because mermaids have not been found yet does not mean they don't exist. Additionally, with so much ocean left to explore, there is a lot we haven't found yet. There are several instances when old fisher's tales have come true, take for instance the oar fish (seen below). Overall, we know too little about our oceans to rule out the possibility of mermaids quite yet.

Conclusion

2015-09-29 00:18:50 UTC

Although the video is "claimed" fake or false, we would like to reinstate the fact that 95% of the world oceans remain unexplored. There is a 95% chance of there being an organism close to a mermaid. Or something even more complex. In the documentary it stated that the Navy tried to cover it up, the Navy easily could have added a disclaimer to the end of the documentary saying that this was fake as a way to reinsure the public. It is important to be skeptical because that is how we learn. If we are not constantly questioning then we would stop learning, stop exploring. Skeptism and curiosity is the beginning of exploration.

Inference

2015-09-29 12:16:02 UTC

-The scientists and the boy saw the same thing. They saw the mermaid.

-There are new species in the ocean. Scientists have found new animals the past 10 years.

Evidence

2015-09-29 12:27:54 UTC

-95% of the world's oceans haven't been explored -Cave Man Pictures show mermaids on the walls. -A boy drew a picture of the same thing that scientists saw, without any other outside influence. -Scientists studied a body with tail and skull with DNA close to a human's. -Whale calls had a blue signiture, that was in a different vocal range than normal

kirstin_blatzheim — 2015-09-29 12:36:04 UTC