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by nolok 37 days ago
No the interpretation is that the more we could prove it if real, the less we do

Sailors saw mermaids all the time too, I don't think they're all hiding under a rock since we invented the camera
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jayGlow 37 days ago
sailors also reported seeing kraken as well, they were eventually proven right with the giant squid.
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nolok 37 days ago
Exactly, that's the point : if it's true/right, we are now able to prove it with evidence. If it's not, suddently we don't see it anymore.
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wredcoll 37 days ago
They reported seeing a lot of other things as well. Rationalizing that as "they were right about big squids existing" is a bit of a stretch.
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Art9681 35 days ago
It wouldn't have the same appeal if they reported seeing "larger than average size squids we didnt know existed". Every story was embellished in a world without pocket cameras. And the further you go back, the more grand the fiction was. Tales of men splitting the sea and walking on water.

It is all very highly entertaining.

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