Breaking news: NOAA officially announces mermaids are not real!

By on Jul 05, 2012

Sorry to burst your bubble but according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), mermaids do not exist! The interwebs is all in a flutter by the addition of a page on the NOAA “Ocean Facts” section on mermaids that states “No evidence of aquatic humanoids has ever been found.” NOAA put the page on its site in response to an Animal Planet “documentary” called “Mermaids: The Body Found.”

To fan the flames of conspiracy, Discovery Channel has posted its response to the NOAA posting on the news section of its website. The web of conspiracy continues to widen too as a website for people of who believe in mermaids referenced in a Reuters article — www.believeinmermaids.com — has had the domain seized by the Department of Justice and Homeland Security.

With all the speculation going back and forth, which side of the mermaid debate do you stand on?

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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ray-Simpson/42701671 Ray Simpson

    I keep thinking how people can be this stupid, but then 45% of the US population believe that a 600 year old man built a 450 foot wooden boat and loaded it with millions of animals, and magic water came out of somewhere and flooded the entire planet over Everest, and 8 people shoveled crap and fed these animals for 300 days with one window and no electricity, and magically the boat landed and the water went somewhere and all humans are descended from a heaviliy inbred three pairs (and apparently all the animals too). They need to take Bigfoot garbage off once-respectable networks unless they actually find good proof of the damn thing (like a dead body laying on History’s headquarters). Them peddling aliens as killing off the dinosaurs takes the cake for me, and they use FRAUDS like Ica Stones as “evidence”. Rant ended…

  • CaliReefer

    The one in the picture looks pretty real to me, and that picture was taken before photoshop was invented. ;)

    Seriously though, there are people who actually think mermaids are real? I guess it takes all types, but that is one I haven’t heard until now. Thankfully I don’t watch the garbage they put on TV/Discovery networks anymore. BBC has become my new favorite channel for their great documentaries.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Joseph-Callahan/1475945250 Joseph Callahan

    Regardless if there are indeed people who beleive in them I don’t understand why the Department of Justice and homeland security are involved, next thing you know they’ll start burning books about mermaids.

  • XD_1

    That’s Daryl Hanna from the movie Splash

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=508021671 Albert Dao

    Now hold onto your bucking horses for a second here. Are you saying none of this stuff happened? Because I have it on good authority (this book I read) that it DID happen.

    Checkmate, pal. Get packing.

  • SoTM

    Dr. Seuss books have more basis in reality……

  • SoTM

    No kidding, the silly things the average American believes in areas ranging from scientific fact on the origins of us and the planet we are on to just plain common knowledge is pretty scary. People still believe and have societies for the flat earth when kindergarten logic would show that flying x feet above ground level in one direction will bring you right back to the same point. A distrubing amount of people actually believe the Earth is less than 10,000 years old and dinosaurs walked with man. I have heard people refer to proof for this as dragons. HA!

  • CaliReefer

    Which is why I said the picture was taken before photoshop was invented. ;)

  • XD_1

    I don’t know if anyone’s seen this in the last 20 years but there’s a wonderful scene where Tom Hanks adds table salt to his saltwater aquarium. Apparently we’ve all been doing it wrong

  • http://www.acuaristica.com/blog/ J.J.Domínguez
  • http://twitter.com/AwItsLinnikins Linny

    Admit it – we all know this article was written just to show Daryl Hannah looking sexy as ever!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ray-Simpson/42701671 Ray Simpson

    I have thousands of books (biology, geology, astronomy) that says the ancient Bronze Age mythology is wrong. On the topic of aquariums… one with fishkeeping knowledge would know a global flood would exterminate ALL marine and freshwater life.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=508021671 Albert Dao
  • SoTM

    Well, then you absolutely STINK at writing a joke post. How is anyone possibly to know you are kidding when you make your post sound exactly as it would if anyone were typing it as real?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ryan-Reeves/1555916536 Ryan Reeves

    If they were real, our Asian neighbors would have found 10 different ways to find them and eat them.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=508021671 Albert Dao

    Such is the beauty of satire :D

  • SoTM

    Well if you intended on sounding like a bible whacko, you succeeded, Ill give you that ;) . I guess I should be happy that it was a fake post….

  • SoTM

    Well, half sexy……not too sure on that lower half.