Re: Reality Show Scams Brits

On Sun, 20 Nov 2005 09:14:43 +1100, Doug Palmer
<doug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>It still seems easier to me to fool the viewing public, rather than go to
>the trouble of trying to fool someone into feeling acceleration and
>weightlessness. Particularly as there's none so gullible as those who
>think that they've got one over some other gullible fool.

I recall reading somewhere that they were planning to explain the lack
of weightlessness on board the shuttle by telling the contestants that
the shuttle wasn't orbiting high enough to be out of Earth's gravity.

Sadly, I'm sure there are plenty of people out there who _would_
believe that - especially when presented in a sufficiently
"authoritative" way.
.

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