If there is the possibility of something being alive and us not knowing about it....the ocean is the most likely place.
Also...we find new species every day. "Extinct" species become un-extinct (or were never extinct to begin with) more often than you think.
I'm not saying megalodon is still swimming around but you can't 100% rule it out. That fake documentary that discovery channel did was totally crappy though. Making people think this was a real doc and it turns out to be a shark week promotional vid. Blah.
They have to make their documentaries appealing to the kiddies and the feeble-minded as well as the science buffs if they're going to make any profit from running the channel. To be fair, it did have some interesting stuff which wasn't made up.
I'm a science buff, I'm actually a bioscience major in college, and I like to keep an open mind to the possibility that some of these creatures, especially creatures in the deep ocean, could still be alive. What really hooked me was at the end when all of those sharks disappeared away from the ship, something large smacked into that boat, and then the whale decoy was taken under. It was hard for me to wrap my head around since that boat was HUGE and I couldn't perceive it being shoved that easily (unless by another ship of similar or larger size), and the fact that the whale decoy was several thousand pounds, and the other sharks scattered (which usually smaller creatures will scatter in the presence of a larger one in fear of predation) before the boat was smacked and the whale decoy was taken under.
I could probably call myself a science buff as well, but mainly for physics. It's nice to think that some creatures have lived undisturbed under the ocean for millions of years, oblivious to our apparition and domination of the planet. In some ways, I really hope that many of them stay that way, since we would probably do them more harm than good. Look at the orange roughy for example. Fishers mindlessly dragged great trawl nets across the deep sea because someone thought orange roughy tasted nice. Turned out that the fish were hundreds of years old, and that irreparable damage had been done to their population had been done as a result of the fishing.
You are correct, humans seem to have a way of destroying things, and I could just imagine if people could prove that say...megalodon still existed. A bunch of people would be out trying to catch this creature for shark fin soup or other reason which could decimate it's population to the point that it actually became extinct.
Telling discovery channel to stop sensationalizing their reports would be like running a persian cat under the tap. There'd be nothing left. As long as you know to take things with a pinch of salt, everything's ok.
I do agree about their megalodon documemtary though.
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If there is the possibility of something being alive and us not knowing about it....the ocean is the most likely place.
Also...we find new species every day. "Extinct" species become un-extinct (or were never extinct to begin with) more often than you think.
I'm not saying megalodon is still swimming around but you can't 100% rule it out. That fake documentary that discovery channel did was totally crappy though. Making people think this was a real doc and it turns out to be a shark week promotional vid. Blah.
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Yes, that pissed me off since I thought that it actually happened (smacks self upside the head).
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They have to make their documentaries appealing to the kiddies and the feeble-minded as well as the science buffs if they're going to make any profit from running the channel. To be fair, it did have some interesting stuff which wasn't made up.
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I'm a science buff, I'm actually a bioscience major in college, and I like to keep an open mind to the possibility that some of these creatures, especially creatures in the deep ocean, could still be alive. What really hooked me was at the end when all of those sharks disappeared away from the ship, something large smacked into that boat, and then the whale decoy was taken under. It was hard for me to wrap my head around since that boat was HUGE and I couldn't perceive it being shoved that easily (unless by another ship of similar or larger size), and the fact that the whale decoy was several thousand pounds, and the other sharks scattered (which usually smaller creatures will scatter in the presence of a larger one in fear of predation) before the boat was smacked and the whale decoy was taken under.
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I could probably call myself a science buff as well, but mainly for physics. It's nice to think that some creatures have lived undisturbed under the ocean for millions of years, oblivious to our apparition and domination of the planet. In some ways, I really hope that many of them stay that way, since we would probably do them more harm than good. Look at the orange roughy for example. Fishers mindlessly dragged great trawl nets across the deep sea because someone thought orange roughy tasted nice. Turned out that the fish were hundreds of years old, and that irreparable damage had been done to their population had been done as a result of the fishing.
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You are correct, humans seem to have a way of destroying things, and I could just imagine if people could prove that say...megalodon still existed. A bunch of people would be out trying to catch this creature for shark fin soup or other reason which could decimate it's population to the point that it actually became extinct.
Telling discovery channel to stop sensationalizing their reports would be like running a persian cat under the tap. There'd be nothing left. As long as you know to take things with a pinch of salt, everything's ok.
I do agree about their megalodon documemtary though.