Space Cadets

[Bob Singleton]

Just flipping between channels and came across this program.

In spite of a total lack of weightlesness (among other things) there are four people who genuinely think they are in space. !annoyed!

It's frightening to think our education system has produced people so gullible and so stupid that they think that after only 5/6 days "training" and having none of the qualifications one would normally equate with being an astronaut (air force pilot, geologist, physicist, biologist, etc.) someone would send them into space... an action which, in the real world, would cost several tens of millions of pounds per person! !furious!

[Cerberus]

I agree Bob, a very frightening prospect for the future. We seem to be elevating the educationally sub normal to celebrity status. All under the guise of entertainment.
What worries me more is that this is becoming an accepted part of society & the clamour for 15mins of fame grows ever louder.
As I posted on the other side earlier;

"This morning I had the misfortune to see a few minutes of Trisha.
What CRAP!!!!!!
Doesn't it make you proud to be British?...........parading the foul mouthed, inbred, unwashed, uneducated, mindless, moronic , imbecile youth of today on national TV.
"Teflon Tones" future generation on show for all to see.
The rest of the world must be laughing their collective balls off.
Can this vermin be allowed to breed unchecked? If ever there was a case for mass sterilisation & euthanasia then this show must surely be it!
Nice one CH5........a real life, open, honest, upfront, horror story".

Surely the people in "Telly land" can't be so bereft of a decent idea or two? Oh I forgot, they're mostly products of that same education system.....how refreshingly reassuring that is!

[Mad Burt]

what you mean man has not really created anti gravity pumps and minsky the russian chimp wasnt real. i wouldnt mind betting that the twist in this saga is that they knew all along and more fool the viewer for going along with the plot, after all its johny vaughn. i cant believe that even the play station generation doesnt know that the americans did the chimps and the russians did the dogs and to clear the pull of gravity an orbital velocity of 8xgravity is needed or you'll keep splatin back down or just perhaps i'm watching too much of the discovery chanell and not enough playstation
malc

[The Last Word]

The title alone and Vaughan's smirking delivery tell you all you really need to know about this, C4's latest desperate attempt not to lose any more viewers.

True, the cadets are the usual fame-hungry loons who won?t care if they?re made a fool of (they?ve all been carefully screened beforehand), but there are worse things than naivete, and the casually cruel cynicism with which this project has been put together is certainly one of them.

As mentioned, there?s a rumour that the whole thing is a double bluff and they're all in on it, the joke being on the viewer. But either way, it?s still a case of humiliation as entertainment, offering the unwary viewer the chance to look down at these poor saps, then later, perhaps, slapping the viewer in the face for being so gullible themselves.

Whichever result, those responsible for organising this nonsense have been looking down at all of us right from take-off, which is the real stinker perhaps.

A depressing example of media thinking, and media power.

[Cenobitez]

I thought they may have done that thing they did in apollo 13, you they took the aeroplane upto like 10 miles up, then let i free fall to simulate weightlessness, i was expecting something like that, i dunno i was expecting something else other than that.