Junkyard wars was [rescue] Sun Ray Thoughts?

[Ken Hansen]

I liked "The Secret Lives of Machines" (IIRC) they
made a Fax machine based on semaphore, and a few other
things, IIRC...

Neat show.

Ken

--- "Michael A. Turner" <mturner at whro.org> wrote:
> 
> 	The reason for that is something that shocked me
> when I first heard
> it. Junkyard wars (scrap heap challenge) are not
> game shows. They are
> educational programming. Those sneaky brits have
> found a way to make kids
> and adults sit in front of a TV show while they give
> them a lecture on how
> the steam engine works, and not only sit their but
> like it. I was almost
> offended when someone pointed that out, almost like
> geek brainwashing,
> luckly I was already part of the cult and unaffected
> :-) 
> 
> Michael A. Turner
> Systems Engineer
> WHRO
> michael.turner at whro.org
> http://www.whro.org
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kurt Mosiejczuk [mailto:kurt at csh.rit.edu]
> Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 9:15 AM
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: Junkyard wars was [rescue] Sun Ray
> Thoughts?
> 
> 
> On Sun, 11 Nov 2001, Chad Fernandez wrote:
> 
> > You can tell just by watching the show that
> materials are planted.  They
> > find stuff in matching sets!  Like when they built
> those pulling
> > tractors.  Good show, but I haven't seen it
> lately.
> 
> That and the fact that for the tractor pull show
> they explicitly said
> that the monster truck tires were donated by a
> company? =)
> 
> They've always "salted" the junkyard.
> 
> --Kurt
> 
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Ken
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