Thinking of Nate H....who is serious about Science....HHmmmm, I wonder if he watches the Science Channel..??????
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Science Channel Refuses To Dumb Down Science Any Further
"Look, we've tried, we really have, but it's simply not possible to set the bar any lower," said a visibly exhausted Bunting, adding that he "could not in good conscience" make science any more mindless or insultingly juvenile. "We already have a show called Really Big Things, which is just ridiculous if you think about it, and one called Heavy Metal Taskforce, which I guess deals with science on some distant level, though I don't know what it is. Plus, there's Punkin Chunkin."
"Punkin Chunkin, for Christ's sake," added Bunting, referring to the popular program in which contestants launch oversized pumpkins into the air using catapults. "What more do you people want?"
Along with Bunting's remarks, the Science Channel issued a statement claiming that it currently airs more than 150 programming hours that are tangentially, and often laughably, related to science, and that staff members are unable to bring themselves to make those hours even more asinine. Debbie Myers, general manager of the Science Channel, said the cable station has maintained a balance of 5 percent science content and 95 percent mind-numbing drivel over the past few years, and that this was as far as they were willing to go.
A survey of the network's current schedule confirmed Monday that on-air demonstrations of such basic scientific principles as "inertia" and "momentum" are mostly relegated to pushing a blindfolded participant strapped to an office chair down a steep hill, while other concepts, such as "sublimation," are regularly demonstrated by strapping dynamite to a large fiberglass Big Boy statue and then watching it explode.
As evidence of their refusal to further water down programming, network sources pointed to a number of proposed shows they've abandoned in recent weeks, including an animal-based bungee-jumping program called Extreme Gravity, and Atom Smashers, a series that was was roundly rejected by focus groups as being "too technical" and "not awesome enough."
6 comments:
Kudos to Mr. Bunting for his impatience with a public that, like a group of spoiled rotten fat assed children, sits on their ever widening bottoms in front of their 56" LED LCD HD 1080p TVs dimanding incessantly vacuous stimulation for their numb brain tissue!!!! This story is a GREAT testament to the reason why we don't subscribe to more than the basic, basic level of cable programming...otherwise we'd be subjected to three million channels of "nothing on"!!!!
everything on tv now is so dumb! i cant believe even educational-like channels like discovery and science channel have such dumb shows!!! although I would like to see that bear bungee jump =]
The 95 percent mind numbing should of read.."mind Dumbing"!!As the college add once said.."the mind is a terrible thing to waste"
We soon will have a "Droid" work force..no intelligence needed.
Hah, yeah, I like to watch shows like this when my brain needs to stop working. It's sad that for some people, this is the most stimulation they get all day. I love shows that like to throw the word "science" around and prove that whatever they want is true. "Well, according to our scientific instruments.." [insert weird fact here], "so it must be true!"
It's funny because it true!
Down with cable programming! Let's donate to PBS instead of paying ridiculous money for shit that tastes like crap.
Then we could have more shows about the Snow Leopard. That's the closest brush with nature most people are likely to get.
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