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Shark Week

Yeah, sorry. Not trying to steer this off path man. I just love analogies and thought it fitting.

The Mythbusters episode on Megalodon was pretty cool last night. That metallic replica was insanely lifelike.
 
I like Shark Week. At least this year it's better than it has been because of new programming. I remember years before where they would still show Air Jaws and other shows from like 2003....
 
Must be rough to have cable!

Rich and I are at Sanibel Island right now. There was a shark bite yesterday right down the beach from us. We still spent five hours in the water today!
 
I don't like the fact they keep showing that Mockumentary about Megalodon. If I wanted to watch a silly fake movie about sharks, I'd watch Sharknado. (And I didn't even catch the disclaimer it was a fictional movie 'parodying' documentaries the first watch through)

I'm also not happy with the fact so much of it is sensationalizing attacks. Shark week used to be the kind of thing I could keep on in the background all day and know it would be a near-constant stream of "Sharks are awesome! And educational!" Now... most of the time I go to turn it on, it's celebs talking or people talking about getting bit and I watch something else.
 
I see nothing wrong with a "what if" type of program. It forces those that are closed-minded to open up and at least acknowledge the possibility that everything you've come to believe as being a certainty is wrong. It's healthy. With the vastness of the oceans there really is no way a person could claim a megalodon doesn't exist today. The only way to prove that... Would be to remove all the water on the planet.... And see what's flopping around. Obviously this isn't gonna happen. Same holds true for such things as aliens, mermaids and Bigfoot. ;). Ya know, it took something like 30 yrs of dedicated searching chinas bamboo forest to find the panda. So, it's not that difficult to believe these things do exist in our world..... We just haven't found them yet.
 
rich333, I'm fine with that! But the fact they faked all of the 'evidence' that megalodon was around and it was all Hollywood special effects was just sad. I mean, there's no evidence Sharknado couldn't happen either!
 
Good points Rich. Endangered Species are like trying to find a needle in a hay stack (Pandas). Now tack on a creature that has the whole ocean at his disposal. It's totally feasible that it's somewhere we haven't searched yet.
 
Also, I could be a science dork and point out even if a megalodon-like shark were discovered, it wouldn't BE megalodon any longer. It would have evolved for deeper water and different conditions and so on. So scientists could discover a closest-living-relative, but while pinpointing the moment a species should be classified as a new species is hard, it's an important distinction (Otherwise there wouldn't even be a hybrid topic with corn snakes, because if they can produce fertile offspring with cali kings, they must be the same species, right?) A "modern day megalodon" would be calling a jungle corn a "pure corn" or a "pure king."
 
;). In all honesty... I've not seen the programming you speak of. And I'm certainly not trying to argumentative.

I'm just of the mind set that until every square inch of our planet and the known universe has been searched, one cannot rule out the possibility of such creatures existing.

P.s.

There are no pure corns! ;).
 
Rich, I believe a documentary on the possibility of the Pure Corn existing out there is in order! Quick, grab a camera and a mouse canon!
 
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