June 28, 2009: Mermaid
 

Hey look, a mermaid...
not one of those ugly Sea Cows drunken sailors fell for, or an animated Disney character, but a living, breathing, mermaid.
Would I lie to you, my oldest and dearest friends?


if it didn't involve sex or money, anyway.

http://cellar.org/2009/mermaid.jpg

Weta, is a special effects company. Think Lord of the Rings, King Kong, and Chronicles of Narnia.

If you want to eat this IOtD, you'll have to peel it first. ;)

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its a Dolphen !!!!

SHE's a "Dolphen". :p

Eat it? Wouldn't that be like having a peel and eat shrimp and opening it up only to find the meat missing? No thanks.

Exactly what "childhood disease" results in leg amputation?

I wonder how well she can swim in that.

it doesn't say "childhood disease", solet's go with cancer, infection, menengitis?......


I bet she can swim really well -think about how fast butterfly kick is, and here she doesn't have to work to keep her legs together.

No, a Sherk.

Here's a video:

http://video.libero.it/app/play?id=d...bd9b1a5fa5c8a8

That's one way of making lemonade! Good for her.

I now have an image stuck in my head of her lining up lemons on the edge of the pool and smashing them with her tail...

its June!

delete this after you fix the title

Doesn't seem all that fluid ....

I wonder it it's a rigid construct. It seems like they should have gone with a stiff plastic/rubber compound so it has some spring to it.

I bet they could sell them

"Let's do the Time Warp again!" :D

Um... I was just checking to see if you were paying attention... yeah, that's it.
Congratulations, you passed. :band:

Apparently she had a condition that meant her lower legs did not develop and so had her right leg amputated at 7 years of age and the other one 'to match' when she was 15.

Ah! OK thanks smee.

I was wondering how she would go to the toilet if she was wearing that...

It reminds me of this article I saw some time ago.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...d-man-made-fin

http://www.lunocet.com/

And even cooler in my fight to stick to the man over copyright laws and freedom of knowledge is this attitude held by the inventor.

From the link "says Frank Fish, a marine biologist at West Chester University of Pennsylvania."
Something sounds fishy here.:D

The trade made by the Little Mermaid was that she lost her voice and every step she walked on land was like knives piercing her.

I suspect we live in more altruistic times now.
Otherwise we might have read about this case in a somewhat different manner.

It would be interesting if she wanted to compete in swimming competitions. Wasn't there an amputee runner with special spring loaded lower legs who was not allowed to run in the olympics or someother race event? And what about the guy in the Masters golf tournaments who had trouble walking and they didn't want him to ride in his golf cart.

The sprinter finally got the OK from the judges but just wasn't fast enough to make the cut. He still hopes to meet the 2012 Olympics though.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2008...008.athletics2

That is so fake looking. I bet they did it cheep.

Fake? As opposed to a REAL mermaid? :rolleyes:
They weren't building a movie prop, it's a prosthesis.

yes i know but it still looks fake:headshake

Looks fake as compared to WHAT? :rolleyes: