Nathan Radke

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Yeah, that's absolutely true.

And it's easy to see why sea monsters have always figured prominently in folklore and myth.

I mean, if you think about where humans live, we tend to live near bodies of water.

Those bodies of water are going to be really important for food, for transportation.

They're going to seem like they have moods.

Basically, our entire civilization is in some way going to be associated with these bodies of water.

And it wouldn't have been uncommon in ancient times for ships to go off to sea and just never come back and generally not even leave a trace behind.

And so in addition to the sadness of loss for the people who lose somebody on those ships, that's wildly unsatisfying.

I mean, for a modern example, look at the amount of attention that was paid to MH370 when it went missing over the South China Sea.

Oh, the Malaysian air flight.

Exactly.

I mean, remember, there was so much heat generated over that.

And there was so much wild speculation, even from like mainstream media.

You had people on CNN talking about black holes and wormholes and monsters.

Yeah.

And it's because there is something just so wildly unsatisfying about something disappearing into the ocean.

And yet it's a tale as old as time.