Jesus, people are stupid....

[oneirophrenia]

Britain's Channel 4 has just "launched"--get it, he he heeee--a new reality show called Space Cadets that involves four complete fucking morons being "sent into space" as part of some kind of ghey mission...only they're never actually leaving earth! It's all a hoax! GET IT?!

So...wait a sec, you say: how are they going to do the whole microgravity situation? Stuff 'em in the "Vomit Comet" for six days straight? Nope.

The producers/Mission Command wenises told their illusory space-monkeys that 1) they were going to be in a low orbit so there wouldn't be such a massive gravity gradient; and 2) there are gravity generators in the floor of their TARDIS spaceship.

STUPID! I sincerely hope one of them accidentally cracks open the airlock.

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[(Anonymous)]

Gravity generators huh? I guess none of the space cadets are adept enough to ask, "If we have gravity generators, then we've obviously found a way to create objects of very large mass, and since these generators can be turned off an off ostensibly, then we have the ability to destroy them as well. However, since the mass required to generate so much gravity would be enormous, the power required to move this ship must also be enormous. So then why aren't we just ditching the gravity generators and using our phenomenal propulsion system to go visit Alpha Centauri?"

But they won't ask that, because they're rubes selected for their rube-qualities which we love, and which will cause us to keep our eyes pointed at the telly, and incidentally view advertising, which will make money for Them.

[jdecay.livejournal.com]

J.G. Ballard wrote a short story with a similar premise.

[eolh.livejournal.com]

What would be really funny would be if they had all figured it out right away, but were just playing along for the hell of it. Because I'd totally do that.

[inmostlight.livejournal.com]

I bet that would be even easier to pull off in America. Cuz overall, we're some dumb motherfuckers.

Hmm. I bet you could get some really cool scenarios with stuff. Do something like Big Brother, where everybody's in a contained area and they don't have contact with the outside world except through the host. Play it straight for like the first week or so. Then really start fucking with them. Camera and crew members start calling in sick. Finally the host doesn't show up. After maybe a day I bet they'd try to break out, and into the main set. Have bodies and stuff strewn about, gratuitous fake newspapers about some new unknown plague....man, that'd be awesome. Especially when the "zombies" then attack. Best reality show ever!