I KNEW it Was the Woo Woo Channel!

[c4ts]

The Sci Fi channel has been trying to sue NASA since Tuesday over information regarding their special Kecksburg documentary:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/10/21/ufo.records.reut/index.html

Are they making the attempt to be taken seriously as journalists or is this a stunt to boost their woo woo appeal?

[espritch]

"If it's something that seems credible, absolutely," said Hammer on the potential of working with NBC journalists. "But we're not going to do it just to create buzz."
From the channel that brought you “Crossing Over with John Edwards”. :rolleyes:

These guys shot to heck any shred of credibility they ever had with me a long time ago. I’m going with pure publicity stunt.

[c4ts]

Just one success and they think they've found there audience. Stupid John Edwards.

[UnrepentantSinner]

I really don't see anything wrong with them trying to do a documentary and FOIA issues are near and dear to my heart, but they should keep in mind that 50% of their name is "fiction."

[Dorian Gray]

Actually, 40% of their name is 'fi'

[c4ts]

That "fi" could stand for anything!

[T'ai Chi]

Originally posted by Dorian Gray
Actually, 40% of their name is 'fi'

So? 60% of their name is "sci".

:D

[Renfield]

Maybe the should change the name to the sci FI channel?

[Paul C. Anagnostopoulos]

Or the Sci[ence] Fi[ction] channel.

~~ Paul

[Ratman_tf]

Pffft. Since they stopped showing Sci Fi, and started showing schlok, they should change their name to 'Lifetime'. :D

[Hand Bent Spoon]

Why do people keep expecting Skiffy to be a science channel? It has never pretended to be anything other than a purveyor of fiction.

The sueing stunt is just that. A stunt to grab attention for its less-than-mediocre lineup.

Remember when it ran an ad campaign consisting of videos of 'paranormal' events? Lots of people fell for those things, even though Skiffy produced them themselves.

This is a little like being on Stephen King's back because Christine wasn't real.

[Ratman_tf]

Originally posted by Hand Bent Spoon
Why do people keep expecting Skiffy to be a science channel? It has never pretended to be anything other than a purveyor of fiction.

Not now. With their 'psuedo-documentaries' they're pretending to be science fact. Twighlight Zone and Babylon 5 are one thing, John Edward (disclaimers aside) and Roswell Revealed! are quite another.

Remember when it ran an ad campaign consisting of videos of 'paranormal' events? Lots of people fell for those things, even though Skiffy produced them themselves.

This is a little like being on Stephen King's back because Christine wasn't real.

I remember when Sci-Fi didn't even have Sightings. They ran Buck Rodgers and Battlestar Galacitca, had Cartoon Quest on late, then ran infomercials for the rest of the night. Maybe cheesy, but at least they were respectable.

[!Xx+-Rational-+xX!]

Mother ****ers don't even know where the term woo woo came from!

http://homepage.mac.com/howheels/rubpics/woowoo.wmv

[TechMage]

Well they seem to actually be getting somewhere. Nasa is going to give them a 36 page document on the Kecksburg incident. I have to admit though, that my logical side is telling me that this was nothing more than a military retrieval of a russian space craft. Cosmos 69, a Russian spacecraft, crashed the very same day, and what really makes me think it was the same craft was that the "witnesses" who saw the craft said it looked like an acorn, and part of the Cosmos 69 was indeed shaped like an acorn. As far as all the other stuff goes, like the object making sharp turns mid air, a withness saying he heard screams of the aliens in the woods after the military showed up, hyroglyphic writing on the acorn shaped craft, and all the other "out of the world" type stuff, was either made up or sence all of the witnesses who saw this stuff up close were very young, they could have just imagined it or tricked themselves into believing their own lies for attention. But, maybe I am wrong. Maybe some alien space craft crash landed in the wood near Kecksburg and the military showed up and capped their asses or tranquilized them, then took their craft, and left. :roll:


This did make me think of a rather humerous, yet ironic, scenario. Imagine it is 100 or 200 years from now and the earth is dying or WW3 broke out. We decide to send several groups of people out in space in pod like structures, to hopefully find another planet to live on, so humanity will continue to exist. They are in a stasis state and are asleep for hundreds or maybe thousands of years until all of the sudden they are awakened and their ship is making a landing on a habital planet the ships computer has finally found. So they wake up and experience the crash landing. After awhile, they exit their pod and breathe the fresh air of the new planet. All of the sudden they hear strange noises eminating from outside of the woods. Then strange alien humanoids show up dressed in strange uniforms and wielding pointy objects resembling some sort of firearm. As they close in on your position they move like predatory pack animals and they decide that these creatures are more than likely hostile, so they decide to run like hell. :) After not being on this new planet for even a day, they are shot down like prey, either killed on the spot, or put into some labratory and exposed to many more types of these strange humaniods, dressed in different uniforms. Some try to communicate with them, others take organic samples from them, and others make them perform ridicuals tests.


LOL, what a welcome. lol :roll:

[Dragonrock]

Originally posted by c4ts
The Sci Fi channel has been trying to sue NASA since Tuesday over information regarding their special Kecksburg documentary:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/10/21/ufo.records.reut/index.html

Are they making the attempt to be taken seriously as journalists or is this a stunt to boost their woo woo appeal?

SciFi has long since forgotten what the "Sci" in their name stands for. They have left the nerds behind and have embraced anything that will get them viewers. I don't think this was a immediate thing though, I think they just gradually moved more towards "Fi" and farther from "Sci"

[Johnny Pneumatic]

They should rename themselves The Fi Crap Channel.