Mermaids, mermaids, sirens - those half-woman, half-fish creatures that are amazing to sing about, do not exist in reality, despite a recent TV movie depicting them, but this was an opportunity for NOAA to reach the masses with a scientific explanation
Mermaids - half woman half fish, or the sirens of the sea - are legendary sea creatures recorded in maritime culture since ancient times. However, NOAA - the US Government's Atmospheric and Oceanographic Agency was asked to address them recently due to a realistic TV movie that misled many viewers into thinking they exist.
The Greek epic poet Homer described them in his work The Odyssey. In the ancient Far East, mermaids were the wives of the huge sea dragons, and served as intermediaries between their mates and the human rulers on land.
The aborigines in Australia called the girls of the sea yawkyawks - a name that may refer to the hypnotic singing attributed to them.
Belief in the existence of mermaids has spread since the dawn of the human race. Female Magian figures first appeared in cave paintings in the late Paleolithic period (Stone Age) and date back to about 30 years ago, when modern man gained ownership of the land, and apparently also began to sail the sea. Creatures that were half-human, called chimeras - mostly men - are common in mythology in addition to mermaids. These were centaurs, wild satyrs, and terrifying minotaurs.
But do mermaids exist in reality? No evidence of the existence of a marine humanoid creature has ever been found. Why then do they occupy a place in the collective subconscious of almost all seafaring peoples? This is a question that historians, philosophers and anthropologists should ask.
The website Live Sicence quotes Kaylee Bellava, a spokeswoman for the National Ocean Service at NOAA, who acknowledged that the puzzling ad was related to the reality TV movie that claimed mermaids existed.
"We've gotten a number of questions about mermaids, and we thought this would be a fun way to talk about it and have information about mermaids in different cultures to attract people to our site and let them learn about NOAA and the National Ocean Service."
It turns out by the way that the mermaids continue to arouse the imagination, and make people report seeing them. In 2009, tourists and local residents flocked to Kiryat Yam to watch an alleged mermaid who, according to the descriptions, resembles a cross between a fish and a young girl. It seems that it appeared only at sunset... as an optical illusion.
An exhibition recently opened at the American Museum of Natural History AMNH in New York recently opened a digital hybrid of mermaids on manatees - a real creature that resembles a hippopotamus with fins and from a distance resembles a human head, to show how Columbus and countless other sailors could have gone astray.
And this is the ultimate song about mermaids. Lyrics by Dan Almagor, music and performance by Benny Berman
And if this reminds anyone of anything - of course - you were disappointed according to the story War of the Worlds, which was broadcast on the radio as a news broadcast interrupted by live reports from the landing sites, a program that caused panic. Here is a little about her in Ran Levy's article The writer H.G. Wells
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Apparently, with everyone, there is a certain but different level, in trust or distrust, to the information received..
The same level cannot be measured with mental tests. And your attempt to attach the same belief to causality analysis,
Any logic with model findings and studies is unnecessary and unrelated and does not contribute at all.
Belief should be treated as a natural inner need, see, which every believer, always completely automatically, will see
In every sign in everything, a fact for the correctness of his belief. And the reason is simple, that it is in her from a place that is not related to actual or mental reality. It's a kind of hunger….
Mermaids and sirens are separate mythological creatures.
Lack of proof is not proof of lack.
If someone chooses to believe in the existence of seamen - there is no proof that they do not exist.
It is just very unlikely that they exist - just as it is very unlikely that there is a culture of mole people living underground - according to the existing model of biology and according to the existing findings.
sparrow
That's why the whole world of blind faith probably stems from those evolutionary needs, maybe it was created with the appearance of a baby growing up with its parents, maybe it's in herds where each individual must in order to survive blindly believe in the ruler and his ways.
Man is much, much more talented than any other life, but in the perception of reality, in the ability to distinguish between existence and imagination, in the need to be guided and more, he is similar to living.
And so a human world was created that is both interesting and strange, man's skills led to a breakthrough in science, technology and art, while his natural needs remained, and alongside that tremendous development, there is constantly the same need to be controlled and led and to live under some limitless power and abilities. As a guide and as a protector sometimes it is a stone sometimes it is a king or sun and sometimes a god
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The innocent and limitless blind faith is our childish quality. And by the way, it is very important for a child to trust his parent so that he learns to avoid dangers and learns to manage in life. Quite evolutionary. At an older age we (most of us) develop the mechanism of skepticism. And everyone activates these 2 in different proportions and towards information from various sources. Skepticism can also be directed at the wrong object or to an excessive degree.
But I was referring to the completely technical possibility regarding the existence of mermaids. And in my opinion, from a purely scientific point of view, regardless of belief in one or another legend, it is impossible to dismiss their existence (or a creature very similar to them) in this universe.
Lolly and sparrow and….
Any fiction, even the strangest, the most impossible and the most imaginative, will always find believers.
Hope that one day a person will be found, who will prove it, for example, by the one who will publish and convince that Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs do exist. It is certain that he will have quite a few supporters, who will find proofs, signs and even verses in legends or the Bible that this is indeed true. Apparently in the realm of blind faith, boundless innocence, we have not strayed far from our earliest ancestors.
Considering the fact that about 75 percent of sea creatures have not yet been discovered and studied, I don't know how it is possible to make such statements
"Does not exist in reality" is always too conclusive a sentence. It is impossible to know if such a life form does not exist on another planet. The correct expression is always "according to all the information we have today, there are no mermaids or a creature similar to them on Earth". Obviously, the evolution of such a creature is also unlikely based on what we know. Marine mammals underwent atrophy of the front limbs in favor of swimming organs. It is probably more important to swim fast than to be able to perform complex manipulations. But in an environment with fewer predators or with a serious advantage for using hands, something else closer to the appearance of a mermaid may have evolved.
my father
You are an inconsiderate person, the whole time I was expecting, planning, even going to work with fins, a moment ago, just because of you, I canceled the diving course …….
What nonsense, just because they haven't found them yet doesn't mean they don't exist.
Surely mermaids really exist, one only has to listen to Debussy's Sirens
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G85HNYX2qf0