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If this show is anything like Smash Lab or worse, Project Earth it will only piss me off with stupid ideas, pseudo science and a complete disregard for the scientific method. I sure hope its cool though.
Also premiering tonight is Time Warp, a show where highspeed cameras are the focal point. Just about anything in extreme slow motion is cool. Hopefully discovery can't screw that up, but i wouldn't put it past them.
For example you could put your house on rollers to prevent earthquake damage. But is it really worth it over the long term. At the end of that particular episode one of the guys stated that their "solution" would be inexpensive to add to new house designs and easy to retrofit to existing houses. Baloney. I'd like to see the bill for jacking up my house, adding a substructure that will support the entire weight, pouring new footings under the bearing points, etc. Probably have to mortgage the damn thing just to pay for the retrofit and I'd never get that money back when I sell it.
I want some of whatever those people are smoking.
I couldn't agree more. The whole show is awful from whatever aspect you want to look at it from. It fails to be cool in its most basic form-showing things smash. They don't have any good high speed cameras and they don't spend enough time showing cool things smash. It fails at the most basic level of what it's trying to do. Awful, awful show.
Project Earth is much worse in my opinion, however. At least smash lab is sold as a quirky group of people smashing things and not much more. Project earth is sold as real scientists doing real science/engineering. As far as I can tell discovery put a call out to all the wacky folks out there with outlandish ideas that couldn't get funding from whatever university they were attending and offered to fund their ideas to real products. These projects are generally ideas that have to be done on such a huge scale impacting the earth in who knows how many un thought of ways that you'd have to be insane to actually do any of them. The few ideas that are half way sane (i can actually only think of one off hand, the floating wind turbine) are so hurried into 'full scale' they have no way they'll work as intended. Their experiments to prove their concepts are so poorly thought out and carried out its laughable. They disregard their small scale results and jump into full scale far to quickly. There's no thought of the scientific method... I'm ranting aren't I? Haha, sorry, i just can't stand this show. I'll shut up.
It'd be nice to see a show that covers a real project over an entire season. I'm sure all of us have been on more than one project with enough drama where we thought "boy this would make a good TV show...".
Might even do some Twittering during the shows!
Ricky
I did catch hints of smash lab in there, but it wasn't horrid. I'll watch again.
Time Warp was pretty neat though, they stretched the build up to the slow motion footage out a little bit too long at times, but the slow mo footage was worth it.