(Yes, it's a joke.)

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"If this were play'd upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Illuminati's Razor-The most complicatedly evil answer is usually the most correct answer. - Fazor
"Every book is a children's book if the kid can read." - Mitch Hedberg
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

In today's stack of library movies, I got an episode of Decoding the Past, which says at the bottom, "Please note that this disc does not offer menu pages or special features found on standard DVDs, simply the high quality programming you've come to expect from The History Channel (R)." Which is silly--I got 10 Days that Unexpectedly Changed America from them not long ago (very long hold list), which actually was quality programming, and this simply isn't going to be--but 10 Days had special features.

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

I used to watch the history channel but they'd never stop playing all that hitler garbage so I got sick of it and stopped watching. Such a shame really, however history international was still doing a good job last time I checked.

I can sympathize with that statement (yes, I didn't take it seriously).

With your background here, I would assume it's just a matter of "how can anybody think that way?". Unfortunately for others, it's a touchy subject.

That statement has been made seriously in many NASA bashing threads. I'm sure there are many people who don't want to go that direction.

I almost responded to the statement myself, only for the benefit of other readers who haven't seen those threads.

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You may think it's a joke, but those shows have actually been run.

I considered signing up until I realised the price wasn't actually to get out there, but instead was a ticket to the first flight of some company claiming to have a suborbital flight system ready VerySoon(tm).
This was before Scaled won the X-Price mind you.

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X-Price?

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Rovers forever! - ToSeek
"The only way to explore the universe is to go and look." - Brian Cox
Well, the best way to find out is to go there and, find out. - Raven's Cry
'Evolution and science are one thing, but you don’t mess with Yoko Ono. Everybody knows that. ' - 386sx

Yes, you know, the checkout line for twelve items or less.

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"If this were play'd upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Illuminati's Razor-The most complicatedly evil answer is usually the most correct answer. - Fazor
"Every book is a children's book if the kid can read." - Mitch Hedberg
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

Hahahahahahahahahaha!

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Rovers forever! - ToSeek
"The only way to explore the universe is to go and look." - Brian Cox
Well, the best way to find out is to go there and, find out. - Raven's Cry
'Evolution and science are one thing, but you don’t mess with Yoko Ono. Everybody knows that. ' - 386sx

NASCAR isn't 'driving in circles for three hours'. Like many spectator sports/entertainment, there's more to it than is apparent on the surface.

I can be rivited by watching two baseliners wear each other down on a clay court, because I know the game of tennis so well. Others, unfortunately including many TV commentators, don't get it. I can understand that. I don't like watching hockey because I don't know the game well enough. But I would never say that it's just a bunch of goons skating around looking for a fight, as others might. I know there's more there than I can appreciate.

I'm sure there is a lot of work and effort wasted on this nonsense, but that just makes it expensive nonsense. To me, it'll always be something to flip past on my way to other channels.

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"If this were play'd upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Illuminati's Razor-The most complicatedly evil answer is usually the most correct answer. - Fazor
"Every book is a children's book if the kid can read." - Mitch Hedberg
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

Woo-woo? What's wrong with History, TLC and Discovery doing shows that look at other possibilities? It's ignorant to shut yourself off to other memes.

Would you watch, say, the Weather Channel if they put forward the idea that rain is caused by sky spirits?

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If we don't play god, who will?-James Watson
I never think of the future, it comes soon enough.-Albert Einstein
The large print giveth and the small print taketh away.-Tom Waits

Great analogy.

But; I would like to add...
I don't mind a fluff piece as long as it's at the human interest level. It's the analysis and justification that irks me. As an example:
1) Tribe X celebrates the annual spring sky spirit that brings a new life to the Earth (Good)
2) Several people have seen the sky spirit nudge the Sun higher. We have set out a time lapsed camera to determine how the spirit does this. Our infrared cameras captured proof of a late appearance of the sky spirit, so this week will not be as warm as expected (Bad)

Locally; we have a big Wooly Bear Festival. The meteorologist that's into it will not use it to forecast, but will talk bout the interpretation of the band of color.

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It's ignorant to blindly embrace memes just because they're "different". Go with the evidence.

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"If this were play'd upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Illuminati's Razor-The most complicatedly evil answer is usually the most correct answer. - Fazor
"Every book is a children's book if the kid can read." - Mitch Hedberg
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort