PediakAuthor: I watched the clip several times, but the purported mermaid seems like an alien, not like the pretty ones we often see in imaginative pictures o... Lol
Me i dont know about the Walt Disney type but there are mermaids.
9jah: Africans are the most delusional people on earth -Rather than Africans to study myths , do a basic thorough research to find out scientific evidence of things ,no; they become lazy, and fill in gaps with a god or myth - No wonder they worship anything-God of thunder, God of the sky,God of the moon, God of the wind lol etc . If you dont have any scientific evidence of anything to show me, with facts in this modern age - I dont believe you.
No, Mermaids Do Not Exist UNIQUELY CURSED DISCOURSE SCIENCE
No, Mermaids Do Not Exist What Animal Planet’s fake documentaries don’t tell you about the ocean.
No credible evidence of the existence of mermaids has ever been found Courtesy of Animal Planet
This week, Animal Planet aired two fake documentaries claiming to show scientific evidence of mermaids. I say “fake documentaries” because that’s exactly what The Body Found and The New Evidence are. The “scientists” interviewed in the show are actors, and there’s a brief disclaimer during the end credits. However, the Twitter conversation surrounding the show (#Mermaids) reveals that many viewers are unaware that the show isn’t real. (Sample Tweets: “After watching the documentary #Mermaids the body found … I believe there are mermaids!!!” and “90% of the ocean is unexplored and you’re telling me #mermaids don’t exist”—which has been retweeted more than 800 times.) It is, after all, airing on a network that claims to focus on educating viewers about the natural world. “The Body Found” was rightfully described “the rotting carcass of science television,” and I was shocked to see Animal Planet air a sequel.
As a marine biologist, I can tell you unequivocally that despite millennia of humans exploring the ocean, no credible evidence of the existence of mermaids has ever been found. Some claim that manatees are the source of the legend, but you’d have to be at sea an awfully long time to think that a manatee is a beautiful woman. Sure, new species are discovered all the time, but while a new species of bird or insect is fascinating, it doesn’t mean “anything is possible,” and it is certainly not equivalent to finding a group of talking, thinking humanoids with fish tails covering half of their bodies. The confusion generated by “The Body Found” got to be so significant that the United States government issued an official statement on the matter.
When I started angrily posting about this on Facebook and Twitter, many of my nonscientist friends asked me why it matters if people believe in mermaids. It matters because the ocean is extremely important. It provides jobs for tens of millions of people and food for billions. However, many marine resources are being overexploited and mismanaged, leaving us in serious danger of losing them forever. Policy solutions can help, but if you are so ignorant about what is really happening in the ocean that you believe that there are organisms that are half human and half fish, you’re almost certainly unaware of the important problems, much less how to solve them. Even if you don’t believe in mythical creatures, you may be unaware of the severity of the crises facing our oceans. Now that we’ve established that mermaids aren’t real, here are 5 other important things about the ocean that everyone should know.
1. The oceans are not inexhaustible, we’re currently overharvesting many resources, and the consequences can be disastrous.
According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, 32 percent of all global fisheries are “overexploited, depleted, or recovering” and another 50 percent are fully exploited (as of 2010). Overfishing is the single greatest threat to the ocean environment, but this isn’t just an environmental problem. Fish are a critically important natural resource, with more than 3 billion people getting at least 15 percent of their protein from the ocean. Although human population growth is still increasing, we won’t be able to increase the amount of fish we’re taking from the ocean.*
2. Current fishing practices aren’t just problematic for the fish species we are trying to catch.
Most commercial fisheries don’t use a rod and reel, catching one fish at a time and throwing back what they don’t want (or aren’t allowed to sell). A single longline can be many miles long and have tens of thousands of baited hooks; purse seine nets can be miles across; and the largest trawl net on the market can fit several 747 airplanes in its opening. Bycatch, which occurs when fishermen catch animals swimming near their target catch, is unavoidable with fishing gear this large, but the problem can be unexpectedly severe. In some fisheries, 90 percent of the catch by weight is bycatch, which includes endangered sea turtles and sea birds as well as marine mammals. Some types of fishing, such as dynamite fishing and cyanide fishing, can heavily damage the environment. Dragging a heavy trawl net over the seafloor destroys countless fragile and ecologically important organisms, the equivalent of hunting for rabbits by bulldozing a forest and killing all the deer, birds, insects, and plants that live there. The FAO estimates that 7 million tons of bycatch are caught and discarded every year.
3. Just because a fish is from “the ocean” doesn’t mean you should release it in the nearest body of salt water.
Invasive species are non-native organisms released into a new region. In the case of invasive fish, they are often introduced by aquarium hobbyists who release a fish when it gets too big for its tank. Often, there are no predators in the new habitat capable of eating these newly introduced animals. Lionfish, native to the Indo-Pacific, are believed to have been introduced to the Atlantic coast of the United States by aquarium hobbyists in the last few decades. Lionfish have no native predators in the Atlantic, and non-native predators are often deterred by their venomous spines. A single female lionfish can release millions of eggs in a year, so it’s no surprise that lionfish are now found throughout the Caribbean and as far north as New York, and they are outcompeting or eating native, economically important fishes such as snapper and grouper.
4. Sharks aren’t a threat to you, they’re important, and they’re in trouble
The average American has only a 1 in 3,800,000 chance of being killed by a shark. You’re more likely to be killed by a lawnmower or a vending machine, and more likely to be bitten by a stranger on the subway. Like all predators, sharks help keep the ocean in balance by eating the sick, the weak, and the dying. However, sharks are suffering from overfishing more than most marine species, with 1 in 6 species of shark, skate, or ray (and 1 in 3 species of open ocean shark) considered “Threatened with Extinction” by the IUCN Red List.
5. Although mermaids don’t exist, the ocean is still full of wonder, and it needs your help!
What you do affects the ocean even if you live far away, and there’s a lot that you can do to help. Purchase sustainable seafood. Use reusable grocery bags instead of single-use plastic bags, which can choke sea turtles or sea birds. Support politicians who support ocean conservation, or encourage your current elected officials to support the ocean. Most importantly, ask your friends and family to do the same.
If I’ve ruined your sense of wonder about the oceans, don’t fret. The absence of mermaids certainly doesn’t mean that the oceans are boring. As deep sea ecologist Andrew David Thaler said, “Look, the ocean is a vast, unexplored frontier. The deep sea is Earth’s last great wilderness. When we do venture into the abyss, we find creatures more diverse and incredible that our relatively limited imaginations can conceive. Don’t insult that wonder with something as utterly mundane as ‘human with fish tail.’ ”
Several of my marine scientist colleagues and I subjected ourselves to three hours of fake mermaid documentaries, live-tweeting and correcting inaccuracies as we watched.
BY DAVID SHIFFMAN
Normally I no suppose quote you but I will help you a bit.
Go to YouTube and type, real mermaid so you can watch and see for yourself...
Wait let me even help me out .. Lemme go fetch the video.
ValCon888: A typical Nigerian girl has this entitlement mentality. They believe you must do everything for them. You must give them money, take them out, buy gifts, make their hair, recharge their phones (and still do the calling) etc.
You must give them money before they buy you gift. And they will only use 10% of that money for your usual boxers, singlet or roll-on birthday present.
She is never altruistic or selfless. If she does something for you, she expects you to do something even greater for her in return. It is until you date a foreign chick you realize a vast majority of Nigerian girls have nothing to offer.
A selfless, generous Nigerian girl is like a Taliban Christian. They don't exist.
Strangely enough, the ones I have met don't have an entitlement mentality... The one I have known for 20years don't ever hustle me for money and the one I know for 7years have never asked me for a dime.
Maybe I'm just fortunate to meet the rare ones.
But truth be told, my first ever bday gift was from Naija lady in UK...
I JUST feel naija economy is part of the reasons our naija ladies are the way they are.
COMPAQ: I don't think gullible is the word. A VP really doesn't have much power beyond what has been given him by the president. While he of course notes what's going on and may not always like it, you can only change something from the inside. If you vex and resign, you 100%lose the chance of being an agent of change, no matter how small.
kehinde1588: Are you still doubting this man is the best v.p Nigeria ever had?
He is just too brilliant. Tinubu's products are always top-notch
May GOD protect and guide Tinubu... May GOD give him. Good health but make him incapacitated to canvass for th presidential post so that he will present Osinbajo.
ikllbrokehoes: Bro forget it, this is African we are talking of. let women slap you and you will be disrespected forever, unless you want to make yourself a punching bag to them.
Even my mom never slapped me before, then one useless woman will slap me and think she will go Scott free? no way. my parents thought me to always stand by what is right, to always defend myself, in this case I was only defending myself.
I will still repeat my words again, if a woman have the guts to slap a man, then she should be ready to receive a deafening slap.
I wish you well bro. Just be careful make you no go slap the slap wey go send you behind bars for the rest of your life or perhaps to your early grave.
Some women are Ogbanjes only looking for who to implicate before they go back to their spirit world, please don't be the unfortunate victim.
ikllbrokehoes: That one is for you not for me, you can continue being a simp and let a woman downgrade you to the lowest but not me.
if a woman have the strength to slap me, then she also have the strength to receive a deafening slap too
So lemme ask you...
What if you slap her and she slumps and dies?
Won't you wish you walked away?
Think about this and YES a strong man's slap can send a lady to the grave... Infact I know a story where a guy just shoved a lady aside and she slumped and died. You guys don't understand how feeble ladies are. Their strength is only in their tongues.
I repeat it is not about simping if a guy walks away but it is an act only strong men are capable of.
I am very angry but let me try and share this my story. I married this woman about 3 years ago and we have a lovely daughter.
I am a business man but my business is not very big yet so for now we live in a room and parlor apartment in Lagos and funny enough the house is full of boys. Young boys that have not gotten married yet. Out of about 9 tenants only 2 of us are married, the rest are young guys living alone or with their girl friend.
To cut the story short, my wife is very beautiful and good looking with nice legs, these were the attractive things I saw in her that attracted me. I loved her so much but I observed that she was so free with these guys and to be frank I saw it as just neighbour to neighbour relationship. I felt it was good to relate with your neighbours well.
To be sincere I have never denied her anything but of recent the story changed. Few days ago I passed by the window of one of these guys and I guess they were playing game together when I over-heard them talking about my wife, I decided to slowly pause. I over-head them describing her private part, one of them was boasting about how he had the bigger share and the others said he is lying so he proved them wrong by telling them the color of the pant she was wearing that day.
I recorded the conversation in my phone and after I slowly walked away with my heart beating like a lion as if I will collapse. The guy was correct, that was exactly what she wore as undies that day. I knew I was finished, I knew it was the end of the world for me, no wonder these guys never respected me.
I waited for my wife to return from work then I took a cutlass and dragged her to one of the boys room. Told him to call the other boys else I would cut off his head, I had my married neighbour beside me and 2 of my friends so I was ready for anything.
That evening everyone in the compound came out including the boys, my wife kept denying and swearing that nothing happened then I brought out the recording and played for everyone to hear. The boys ran away faster than I could lay hands on any of them and then my wife started crying. She had slept with everyone of them each and more than once. So I can actually conclude that I married a prostitute.
She said it was the devil, that they lured her and set her up. My question was why wont you tell me if they set you up. Well, to avoid killing her because I was almost macheting her, people took her away from me and told her to stay somewhere else for now till am calm. This thing is very painful.
eyinjuege: I hope people know that Paul beats Anita regularly and he has impregnated another woman out of wedlock. She doesn't have to take all the disrespect o
If that beating part is true and I mean only IF IT IS TRUE then Paul is a beast that deserves to live in isolation.
You don't beat a woman no matter what even if she slaps you just walk away not because you are a weakling but because you know you are indeed a strong man cos if you decide to strike her, she may just fall and pass out or even give up the ghost.
Women are irrational people so don't ever get physical with them no matter what.
Onyi22: You were making sense at the very beginning but not up to the last paragraph, you type rubbish there
I guess that part was too much for your brain to process... Read again and this time very slowly perhaps you will be able to grasp the sense in it and if not.. Sorry I can't help you out.
nenyewrites: Joseph? Zachariah? Jesus? Peter? Paul? John? John the Baptist?
Polygamy or monogamy is a choice bro. My point is that it is not a sin and not a taboo.
Today's women have a way of making it look like a taboo.
No man should allow any lady cage his sexuality... If you want to be monogamous please do just that and remain faithful to one woman... No side chicking and if you feel like marrying 100 wives do just that and avoid adultery... Any lady who is not cool with that should leave.
Crime › Re: Four Men Gang-raped Me For 21 Days –nasarawa Teenager by Toks2008(m): 5:37pm On Sep 01, 2021
