As a teacher of technology, I make it my mission to seek out ways of describing technical matters in unambiguous and precise ways. Sadly the dialog on this show does NOT meet this standard, as much as it pretends to do so.

I urge your writers/producers to employ a (more) skilled educator to review the dialog, because as it is now I can't encourage my students to watch it, as much as I'd like to.

For example, a recent episode describes the workings of a vacuum cleaner, and almost every point had some either weird or inconsistent detail. Is it relevant (or even true) that the main motor turns on before the beater motor? Does the suction motor really NOT produce vacuum as your dialog states? Does the electricity for the beater bar come from the main motor (think what that implies!)? And on and on.

I may show it to my classes as an example of non-stop fuzzy thinking.

While I applaud you for producing a show with great potential, it falls far short of the mark.
Our students deserve better.

Neil

I second your statements Neil,

I've seen several episodes that have oversimplified things too much.

For example, a re-run just aired recently involving turntables and MP3 players.

In describing how the stylus and stereo cartidge work, they describe the process in the fashion of a monoral signal. The description doen't fit a stereo signal. They also failed to mention the RIAA equalization that takes place in the amplification process.

In the workings of a MP3 player, they describe the knob/dial on the front as generating two signals "1-2" and "1-3" and how it looks for a "1-2" to "1-3" transition for one direction and "1-3" to "1-2" transition for the other. I Submit that you cannot tell direction with just two states because it would have to lock one state in, making it irrepeatable. If the knob was free to rotate, you could randomly cause the opposite function to occur, or reverse the one you just called up. There has to be a third state, whether it is just a neutral state, or used to tell direction (1-2 2-3 3-1, 1-3 3-2 2-1).

Since Science is supposed to be FACT (not theory or fiction), the Science Channel/Discovery should know better. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do not oversimplify to the point of ignoring how something really works. It's worse than ignorance.

I watched the Deconstructed show on spa's last night and almost had to laugh. They totaly ignored all principals of hydraulics, Bernoulli's principle, the venturi effect and everything else that make water and air move. If you where to believe the show, when water is compressed into a smaller area, the pressure goes down. Someone needs to check the research.