ummmm I don't know what to think of this...

[Mermaid Marissa]

So I found this trying to prove to my brother that the aquatic ape theory is a real theory (I'm still not sure I believe it, but it makes sense to me scientifically)

notice the domain for the website that supposedly had an article on Dr. Paul Robertson and his interview on Animal Planet.
I thought this was pretty interesting what do you guys think?

11690
11691

[Echidna]

I've heard they (aka the animal planet guys) had caused some "fake" take-downs of their related sites to make their conspiracy stuff appear more legit.
I haven't delved deeper into this, but it makes sense, given how phony the entire affair has become
(part two was only disappointing).

The aquatic ape theory has been around for a long time btw.
It's a shame it's now discredited by this ridiculous program :(

[Mermaid Marissa]

I've heard they (aka the animal planet guys) had caused some "fake" take-downs of their related sites to make their conspiracy stuff appear more legit.
I haven't delved deeper into this, but it makes sense, given how phony the entire affair has become
(part two was only disappointing).

The aquatic ape theory has been around for a long time btw.
It's a shame it's now discredited by this ridiculous program :(

I agree though I have seen websites like this taken down in the same manner. I had done a research paper on the same subject about 4-5 years ago and I do believe the government is filtering out some things but in the same way they do for a variety of things we (the public) "shouldn't" know about since it is a matter of "national security" they are worried about sonar secrets being leaked I think.

[WavyMermaidy]

I agree with Caltuna, I believe I remember that when this originally aired they faked that website seizure. All part of the mock-u-mentary aspect of it.

[Ponytales]

The image, along with the entire website, is hosted on Animal Planet's servers. Its fake. Just another layer of show business. If it were real, given when it was 'taken down', the website would no longer exist. Either the government would have made the service host remove the site completely by now (that seizure page, when used IRL, is only a temp until they can get it completely removed) or the domain itself would have expired, since I doubt the "scientists" would continue paying for a non functioning page.

[AniaR]

they did it last time too, and the right clicking of the image showed you it was hosted on animal planet, lol. Also, seriously though, since when has the Gov actually taken down a website -_- they can't even effectively get child porn websites down, or black mailing websites down.

[Ponytales]

Haha, that is true. The American government (and assumably others, I can only speak for my own) can't even sucessfully get PirateBay off the net. Plus, if I were a scientist and I KNEW my research was controversial and linked to a massive cover up, I'd have it hosted in another country, and have the info posted multiple places online.

[Mermaid Momo]

I'd just like to point out that the aquatic ape theory is in fact an actual theory, though you need to look at some cryptozoology websites instead and really delve deep into the tiny nooks and crannies.I believe a few years ago, mermaids were one of those cryptoids that most cryptozoologist chose to igno because they believe it would take their credibility down a lot though there were a few "crazy" ones who still pursued it.