Anybody else seen "Dark Matters - Twisted But True?"

[onager]

W-e-e-l-l-l...kinda/sorta true, anyway.

New show on the Science Channel. I caught an episode last night, with 3 segments:

"Einstein's Brain" - true story of the guy who stole Einstein's brain, then lugged it around the USA for several decades. Funniest line: "One of the smartest brains in history, stolen by one of the dumbest."

"Unidentified Flying Nazis" - umpteenth TV re-hash of the alleged Nazi anti-gravity device, "The Bell," and its crash in Pennsylvania in the 1950's. Weird omission - not a single mention of the runic symbols supposedly painted on the whozis, that gave it Occult Powers.

"Killer Thoughts" - not again! Mega-umpteenth rehash of the tired old "Operation Stargate" claptrap, with the remote viewers who saw "secret underground NSA facilities!" Would the NSA really admit that to these kooks? At least, near the end, they had a working stage magician demonstrate how to fake psychokinesis.

Usual Tedious Personal Rant, re Operation Stargate - Long ago on a slow day in Dzerzhinsky Square, a couple of KGB agents were poring over the latest polling data from the USA.

"Stalin on a trailer hitch, Boris! Have you SEEN this stuff? Look at the percentage of those idiots who believe in a personal god. And angels! And demons! And past-life regression! And..."

"And Uri Geller, and psychic powers and...damn, Svetlana! I'll bet we could convince the stupid Americans we're actually wasting money on this nonsense. And they would have to set up their own psychic research project, to counter-spend us."

"Nah, Boris. Not even the Americans could be that stupid..."

[Warpy]

1. I was flipping around and trying to find something diverting

and lingered on that just long enough to feel brain cells turning to mush.

I'm glad there was eventually some unconscious humor in it. I didn't want to risk addling wits I don't have so I just shut the tube off instead.

[Deep13]

2. Don't mind fanciful stories, but these were just boring. nt

[Codeine]

3. The commercials represented it in a way that sounded

skeptical and interesting, so we set the DVR to record the series. The very first segment of the first ep we saw was awful claptrap about The Philadelphia Experiment. Never canceled a series so fast.

[onager]

4. Thanks, all. I won't be watching anymore either...

Well, maybe for some unintentional humor. That ape-man army commercial does look sort of interesting...:evilgrin:

Oh, whenever one of those People Stumbling Down Unique Paths brags that "the govt. spent $20 million studying psychic phenomena, so it must be real!11!" Just remind them that Operation Stargate spent $20 million over 20 years. About $1 million a year, or probably less than the annual CIA budget for paper clips.

The Wikipedia article on Stargate is hilarious. Almost every "reference" is a book penned by one of the relentlessly self-promoting Stargate "psychics" - mostly Joe McGoneagle and Paul Smith. (Or one of their partners in crime, like Russell Targ.)

Which leads to...whoops!

"Reading the Enemy's Mind" is filed under GENERAL FICTION on the parent publisher's (MacMillan's) site<1>. Since when is it okay to cite science fiction as sources to explain real events? In short, why is this nonsense in Wikipedia? Jeremystalked talk 12:50, 5 June 2010 (UTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Stargate_Project

:rofl: