Why is it idiotic for someone to believe in something? Maybe it's idiotic to think that we're the only beings in existence? This universe is a big place, get real guys.

Sure it's POSSIBLE. It's also possible unicorns and fairies exist. But it's super improbable to the point that we can pretty much ignore it and not bother speculating on it.

Of course it's possible, but those who believe that something is so improbable that it's best left ignored are the ones who leave us behind, both technologically and psychologically. You gotta embrace it and seek it. Otherwise your inferior intellect won't be able to grasp the true importance of such ideals and beliefs. How do you think the Nazi German's got so far ahead in technology? How come do you think that the U.S. is so far behind in education, both public and private? Get your sterff together and start living life yo.

Are there really SEVEN PEOPLE who agree with this??

More people believe it's at the very least possible than not. To think otherwise is ignorant. I don't want to live in such a tiny world as you do.

I wonder how grumpy cat feels about this...-_-

The fact so many people thought this was real is a very bad omen for the future of our country. We are a bunch of morons who have not been taught and critical thinking skills. Pretty sad

not particularly. without imagination, we can't fuel future ideas

There's a difference between having imagination, and being a retard who believes anything they are shown.

The reason everyone thinks we are a dumb nation is because we really are. Not everyone one of us, but a much higher % than elsewhere.

Nothing will change until we admit there is a problem and admit it rather than blindly and stupidly defending things we know are fucked up. We only see what we want to see and believe what we want to believe.

Who over the age of 10 could have possibly believed it was a real documentary?

I just love when people spew their own opinions and like to pretend they are facts. Maybe the reason our nation is dumb is because we have not respect for one another. People can believe what they want to believe. Its not bothering anyone.

*no

Lol….really? Here’s the best Critical Thinking Health indicator, ever:

Gossiptainment sector expanding = critical thinking failing.

Gossiptainment sector shrinking = critical thinking recovering.

People and US magazines go bankrupt, sites like enstarz are 404 = Congratulations: you were able to stave off a second Dark Ages and general barbarism for a generation or two.

lol. the interveiwer on the show was a HORRIBLE actor, that was what gave the hoax away right off the bat. it was like watching a bad infomercial.

really? he is a doctor not an actor this a cover up by big brother. and him being a dr. is why he IS not a good actor, moron!

God you're an imbecile of monumental proportions with no perception of what acting even is. If he wanted to be a believable actor, he wouldn't have tried to sell it so hard but he did. That is why Cafe 588 said he was a horrible actor.

My thoughts exactly

Interviewer is a real reporter from the HBO show hosted by Bryant Gumble. Does mean I'm saying the show was for real though.

*does not mean

It certainly didn't fool me, so it didn't fool everyone!

This is more evidence of a government cover-up! If this
Mermaid series is the most watched series in Animal Planet History why would anyone
from that Network come out on National television and rebuke the findings
(THINK ABOUT IT). This is a business first and foremost. We all know
professional wrestling is fake however you don’t see Vince Mcmmahon or any executivecome out before WrestleMania and call wrestling a fake. What I find troublingis that the “executive producer” come out at the height of the series success andcalls it a fake. You think he would juice that network “cash cow” to the veryend and may be a few years later then call it a fake. Furthermore why didn’t Dr.
Paul Robertspon or the kids that found the body come out and call themselves actors(show us their Actor Guild Card). The young men who saw the Mermaid on the beach have them come out and call it a fake. However they got the “executive
producer” to come out at the HEIGHT of the show success to trash his own
production and hard work. None of this makes sense; no pun intended something
smells fishy.

I believe this is another example of Big Brother at work
attempting to discredit actual science. The only question is, why? We have recently
found new species of other mammals and some of them had barely made the front
page news.

Let’s stretch the mind a little:

a)
Could it be they know that we are a decedent of
this aquatic life form that eventually moved to land?

b)
Could these new species be much more intelligent
than we think and knows a lot of our government dirty nasty secrets.

c)
May be this life form isn’t that new and is
linked to higher intelligence (extraterrestrial) of which the government has
been keeping secret for many years. Therefore if their existence were uncovered
so would the other secrets.

All of this has cover-up written
all over….

time to change the tin-foil

First of all- it wasn't intended to be taken seriously. It's a mockumentary, they're designed to have something to laugh at, or to give intrigue to the audience. not to convince people it's real.

Second of all- if they were real, and come to the surface like that, we would've found them long ago. The only way they could exist is if they live super deep under the ocean. And they wouldn't look like CGI.

Nice try Sonya! Mermaids DO exist. and their naive act tell us everything...

we don;t need a gang of Big Brothers (rumormongers or mainstream "Scientists") come out and tell us to believed what's "DO" exist and what's "NOT". it's usually vice versa. the same cover-up as UFOs.

UFO's have been officially debunked, google "project paperclip"

Do you even know what a UFO is? It's an unidentified flying object. If someone sees something flying they cannot identify, there you have it. What you're TRYING to say is that alien spaceships don't exist. To think that they can be debunked is absolutely absurd. If you truly think we are the only "intelligent" (sometimes i wonder) beings that exist anywhere I can't imagine what a small, closed in world you must live in. There has been far too much seen, including by astronauts and jet pilots, to say alien aircraft isn't around us. Talk about being brainwashed. People who refuse to believe the possibility of their existence are allowing themselves to be told what to think and believe. Sad.

the rash of UFO sightings reported in the 1950's have been identified as flight tests of prototype aircraft. the black triangle UFO's for example turned out to be what is now known as the B2 stealth bomber.
nowhere in my one sentence comment did i say anything about what i do or don't believe. if anyone is trying to tell someone else how to think it's you. don't try to tell me i'm closed minded or brainwashed just because i don't believe everything told to me on the internet.
the theoretic law that discounts coincidence makes it pretty obvious that life in some form MUST exist elsewhere in the universe, but to claim that we know what they are and how evolved they are in comparison with ourselves is an outright lie. we don't even know everything about our own planet, let alone those that we've never been to.

Call me when the shuttle lands.

ur abc's i think are really bad except for the last one but theres still a fluke in that one.
a) why would they care it would be interesting to know if we were a decendent of mermaids.
b) why would mermaids ever know that and why would the government ever think that unless they've talked with one.
c) it was ok until u said it would reveal the other secrets.

and that one person might not have liked how everyone was going crazy about that and put a end to it.

The videos of the Mermaids lives are just a thought of how and what they
might do. Animal Planet wasn't claiming that, that footage was real. I
believe they are real. Assuming we really did evolve from apes, why
couldn't have some of them evolved into Mermaids over the last millions
of years ago. Hell we went from dirty apes, to the most advanced thing
on this planet.

Fooled everyone, ha. Anyone with an ounce of evolution acumen knew it was a fake. Just the fact that it was on Animal Planet, made it suspicious.

i think they are real :)

IDIOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What kind of fucking moron would believe for a second that this shit was real? Idiocracy, here we come...

Believe it or not, the facts presented in the so called mockumentary as they call it is real, In Africa we have seen mermaids, some of them come ashore, and live amongst us, some even have children who are living amongst us, you may not believe it, it may sound like a fable tale, but its true, mermi water as we call them do exist, and they have very advanced technology and science, many people go to the water world to seek power and wealth...

I don't think it really fooled anyone except Animal Planet. They just lost what little credibility they had.

I missed it?!~ Who would have believe it was even real? The CG isn't very good to start with lol My favorite is still Discovery Channels "Dragon Week", only aired once and the DVDs are out of print :(

I know what you're talking about! I saw that when I was a kid and was captivated by it. It's actually on YouTube.

Really now? Then how do they explain this video? This video is on facebook.......I can't say it isn't a mermaid, but then again it doesn't look like anything else but a mermaid.

http://jokideo.com/amazing-...

don't comment if you didn't see the special. You would know that this clip was in the special, it is fake and anyone that believes it was real...Well im selling tickets to meet the mermaids, only 50 bucks.

The videos of the Mermaids lives are just a thought of how and what they might do. Animal Planet was claiming that, that footage was real. I believe they are real. Assuming we really did evolve from apes, why couldn't have some of them evolved into Mermaids over the last millions of years ago. Hell we went from dirty apes, to the most advanced thing on this planet.

We didn't evolve from apes. We ARE apes. Humans share a common ancestry with chimpanzees and the bonobo. Humans are members of the great apes which is an umbrella term used to describe hominids.

Mermaids DO exist.
the only Hoax will be record in our history are those opinionated so-called "Science/Scientists" and it's cult-religious believers.

lol

"science/scientists and it's cult religious believers" are you even aware of the definition of "oxymoron"?
it also just occurred to me you went full dumbass and confused science with scientology.

I would think that Animal Planet would think before it acts....how many viewers will or have lost their trust in the info they produce to the public? I for one have lost mine.

I want to be mad, but what can I say pretty much all the tv stations do this, cable or not. They all lie, all reality shows are lies, sure in real life they can die, but so what
so can I and anyone else, thats called life. But in reality its just
better to believe whatcha what. Because Animal Planet they lie, ever see
lost tapes, same thing. Same reason I dont care for those movies that
say there based on real life events, maybe they are maybe there not but
most of the them its all bs anyways. What bit of truth is in there is
small, have to find it like a needle in a haystack. Example, those Paranormal Activity Movies.

Making it like they were based on true storys like that of blair witch
project, only to find out was bunch of made up stuff. My thing is this,
don't get your facts off what they say on tv or from movies.

If you do you're setting yourself up!

All these tv channels/networks care about is money and viewership, not
about the facts or the truth. You can say there are exceptions to the
rule on that from time to time, channel to channel, but 99% of the time
its those 2 things they care about!

I admit, I believed it. Not necessarily this specific documentary since this one was just a "what if" type show, but after this they had another documentary showing the deep sea footage of the hand on the submarine. And I'm a very skeptical, logical kind of person. I'm not really one to believe in something like mermaids without scientific proof. So I'm watching a documentary special on what I thought was a reputable channel. They bring in not only one, but several scientists. Why would I for a single moment even think that this really wasn't a documentary? Next time I watch a documentary on lions should I be thinking omg this is all fake, the lions caught on camera killing other animals is all CGI, and the "zoologists" they interview are really just actors? None of it is real. So back to the mermaids....I'm given a plausible story of body parts found in a shark being tested. Ocean geographers and not one, but several video footage, and a supposed ban from Greenland on oil drilling in the ocean where the footage was taken. People actually take notice. Like, almost 4 million people sit up and take notice. Now all of a sudden it's just a "mockumentary"? We lied to everyone. Scientists were actors, video was fake, stories made up, haha just a joke, go about your business, nothing more to see. Really? Nobody in the board meeting happen to mention that if we tell ppl someone is a scientist and they believe it, we lose total credibility if they find out we just lied about it?

Compared to reality, as in my other comment, mermaids are a soothing fantasy, something to take your mind off the fact that you have no rights and absolutely no control of your government or the direction your country is going in. If people want to start believing in them, you can't blame them. Much more pleasant than the truth. The cognitive dissonance caused by being told you live in a democracy, that you have freedom and constantly being presented with evidence to the contrary will eventually make you believe anything.

They never called it a mocumentary, the were showing "evidence," they said. In reality, they have lost all credibility because they decided to fool everybody. They cannot come out and say it was their intention to show a mocumentary. From the get go, they lied, and now they are trying to cover it up by calling the whole thing a joke. A joke and a hoax are two different things. Shame on you!

One, just ONE of the many reasons that the credibility of channels like Animal Planet mean zero, zip, nada, They used to be a decent factual channel, i guess they are just desperate for viewers so they will try anything they can, well i guess they will be happy gaining their young viewers, losing older longtime viewers such as myself, means zero, zip, nada to them. Sad. Very sad. Pretty sure the movie The Running Man is not far from being true too soon.