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Shark Week

Chip

Chip

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Anyone watching? Anything spectacular this year? Admittedly, I get irritated that 99% of shark week is great whites attacking, but then I start watching the footage and I'm mesmerized! I feel like Discovery could do a better job explaining the diversity of sharks, and pointing out how few of them are any threat to man, but ratings are the reason there is a Shark Week to begin with, I suppose...
 
Sensationalism (ratings) is one of the reasons I rarely watch discovery, nat geo, or animal planet anymore.

Last night there was something on about megalodon and vague evidence of how it could still be alive...but that's just a gigantic great white. :shrugs:

The more I watch current modern tv the less brain cells I feel I have. Couple this with the soon idiocracy of the NFL season, i.e., a whole Sunday afternoon (4+hours) and I'm about to cancel my direcTV. I do love watching baseball but with the current roids drama and pay-fraud the drama queen, I'm honestly getting burned out on it too. I can't even justify MLB.tv mainly due to the pissing contests of networks that result in blackouts.
 
You show the nfl some respect:) . But yea I turned sharkweek off after that ancient aliens esque megalodon special
 
Chip said:
I feel like Discovery could do a better job explaining the diversity of sharks, and pointing out how few of them are any threat to man, but ratings are the reason there is a Shark Week to begin with, I suppose...
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Discovery Networks could do a lot of things better...
 
I love shark week. You know it is shows like that, which are suppose to activate your imagination and inner child. Things are taken too serious these days. What happen to the just for fun? Really? Some people actually do enjoy watching football (I am not one of them). However, I do love Hockey, so I can understand why people watch sports. I don't put down going out and finding bugs because it isn't something I like to do. The people that do it, truly enjoy doing so. They do it for fun!!!!!!!

Just my two cents!
 
I have been watching shark week, since it started. It is something I watch with my son. He loved sharks, dinosaurs, reptiles, bugs, and so much more! (btw my son is going to be 16)
 
beautifullywild77 said:
I love shark week. You know it is shows like that, which are suppose to activate your imagination and inner child. Things are taken too serious these days. What happen to the just for fun? Really? Some people actually do enjoy watching football (I am not one of them). However, I do love Hockey, so I can understand why people watch sports. I don't put down going out and finding bugs because it isn't something I like to do. The people that do it, truly enjoy doing so. They do it for fun!!!!!!!

Just my two cents!
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I am bad ... I liked the Snuffy comercial!
 
The Megalodon special was awesome last night. I am one of those believers that thinks this thing is still out there. Sure it sounds crazy that 30 - 60 foot long sharks roam. But, think of the possibilities.

The ocean is literally 1000's of feet deep in places. Technically we have only discovered like 6% of all the oceans on our planet as far as depths, square mileage, etc. is concerned. You mean to tell me that it isn't possible that a beast of a shark isn't somewhere to be found in certain places?

I will bet with our technologies another decade or two from now we will have found some kind of irrefutable evidence that a shark larger than the great white still exists in our world.

My kid is four and we let him experience that show with us last night and he was soooo curious asking tons of questions and really getting into it. Can't wait to watch more this week.
 
I love sharks. One of my fondest dreams is to cage-dive with great whites someday.

I do not like Shark Week anymore. It has become 3 hours of sharks during "Shark Week" and the rest is pointless BS programming as usual. Like Chip said, I hate that they sensationalize shark attacks so much. Sharks are endangered enough--we need to focus on creating interest and trying to save them, rather than reinforcing oh god scary monsters keelz.

Also, just me, but I frickin' HATE how now they have to show idiots' Twitter comments every 30 seconds. I swear I'm ADD or something, but I must pay attention to movement and things popping up and it really takes away from my enjoyment of what few shows I still enjoy on Shark Week.
 
I can see where Chip is coming from. I don't like all the shark attack shows. I like the shows the spark the imagination. That gets that little kid in side of us going ooooo, ahhhhh, OMGoodness....

Just like with any animal, it seems the attacks get more media attention than the educational ones.
 
I really enjoyed the earlier years before it was the blood-fest it is today. :( I can't handle blood that well, so I have to skip shark week now.

Isn't the Megolodon special one of those mockumentaries in the same vein as the mermaid one?
 
I don't think it's to much of a stretch to think a megalodon could still be lurking in the depths.

Or at the very least a descendant from the megalodon. Take the giant squid for example, very elusive, but we finally got proof that it does in fact exist.
 
I seriously believe that a shark larger than 30 feet is definitely possible. Even if it is a descendant as you indicate Rich.

It's like for those that don't believe in aliens. Maybe not those cheesy, E.T. type aliens that people assume when that word is thrown around. But, do you mean to say in our entire universe that there is not another form of life on some other planet? If the economy does recover and the science program could get more private industry backing again, I would think that within a couple of decades we could find proof "aliens" or another life form existed somewhere out there.

No different than believing a shark of this caliber is possible.
 
True, I'm sure that it's out there, just I think that show was more hype than fact. Hard to say sometimes.
 
Sindrik8x said:
I seriously believe that a shark larger than 30 feet is definitely possible. Even if it is a descendant as you indicate Rich.

It's like for those that don't believe in aliens. Maybe not those cheesy, E.T. type aliens that people assume when that word is thrown around. But, do you mean to say in our entire universe that there is not another form of life on some other planet? If the economy does recover and the science program could get more private industry backing again, I would think that within a couple of decades we could find proof "aliens" or another life form existed somewhere out there.

No different than believing a shark of this caliber is possible.
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Agreed.....

I'm rather certain SOMETHING is out there. Perhaps not the cheesy Hollywood aliens.... But some form of intelligent life. And I'm also fairly certain we've already found it.... Or it found us. But that's for a different thread at a different time.
 
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