Per the Discovery Channel TV schedule, guess which show isn't on it through 5/22? Not on Wednesdays, not on any day.
If in fact we did get it canceled, *we're* the ones who helped humanity. However, if I'm reading it all wrong, I apologize in advance for raising false hope.
If in fact we did get it canceled, *we're* the ones who helped humanity. However, if I'm reading it all wrong, I apologize in advance for raising false hope.
That maybe true in the US, but they are now marketing it in Asia and play each episode multiple times a day because they don't have enough shows to air or something like that... Either way I joined this forum just to beg for relief from the torture... I am hoping next months new programming changes result in it going away.
You may want to have a look at my renaming smash labs post and offer some suggestions... ;-)
you know i think you are right. it is the 4th of july and still nothing. it is a shame even if the hosts weren't too smart i had a really good idea that never got used. can people look at it for me and let me know if my planning was right or wrong??
here is the url. please let me know what you guys think i have been begging people to and yet no response.
Not dead yet. I'm hoping that 1) they use my idea to test whether shrink wrapping the hosts' heads will prevent the spread of their stupidity, or 2) someone at Discovery has read this forum and has made the appropriate changes. The basic premise has some potential, but the show is God-awful.
Why is everyone so intent on canceling this show? I've watched it and most some of their solutions are ridiculous, but it gives people ideas on other ways to solve the problems. Take the CO2 to stop a car episode. It totally flopped, but it made me think about whether you could stop a fleeing car by using a car-mounted TASER.
Also, Smash Lab somehow has access to equipment that the Mythbusters doesn't. They were able to get a 747 on their first try and were also able to build 2 extremely dangerous rockets, whereas the Mythbusters ended up using 3 (puny by comparison) model rocket engines that didn't work. I haven't seen the Mythbusters use a train in any experiments and Mack makes better use of guns, especially the Mini-gun. He blew up several cars from a helicopter, the Myhbusters only managed a tree and a barrel from a stationary SUV.
What you are saying is something that has been bothering me since the show started. There is NO QUESTION that the program has had production problems, but this endless ranting about how the staff aren't scientists, and have no clue about science is more than just untrue.
The real difficulty is that most of the people making the complaints have no familiarity with genuine scientific investigation, have no exposure to how research, development, test and evaluation are done, and are confused and alienated by the concept of a feasibility study.
Mythbusters is a great show - But Smash Lab is not Mythbusters, and the concepts are fundamentally different! In real life, primary feasibility studies almost always fail, and are discarded in favor of refined concepts, inspired by initial investigations. This is pretty much what you are alluding to.
The question becomes how the producers are going to deal with this misinterpretation of the show. Will they be able to fix it? Will the show, absent of production issues gather a following? Will they have to change the format, and run preliminaries behind the scenes in advance?
Originally posted by timgr: The real difficulty is that most of the people making the complaints have no familiarity with genuine scientific investigation, have no exposure to how research, development, test and evaluation are done, and are confused and alienated by the concept of a feasibility study....In real life, primary feasibility studies almost always fail
I admit to being handicapped by having only watched the Rhino Liner Commercial episode, and only seeing previews of the others, but it seems to me that they aren't actually doing "primary feasability studies;" someone (possibly even right on this board) put me on to a link to a product that is already approved for exactly what they were trying to use Rhino Liner for. But if you want to believe the reason many of us don't like the show is because we don't understand what's going on, that's fine, I'm not going to try to argue you out of that because I don't intend to type my fingers down to stubs.
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The question becomes how the producers are going to deal with this misinterpretation of the show.
This might be the best comment I've seen in a while, even though I'm probably reading it in a way you didn't intend, simply because half the problem with the show is the difference between what I was expecting (from the advertising) versus what the show actually was. I don't think I would have created an account just to complain if I hadn't felt that the hype didn't match the show, which only doubled my letdown.
