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British “Reality” TV:

Channel 4 is blasting a group of adventurers, ordinary members of the public, off into space to spend five days orbiting the earth. It’s thrilling, it’s exciting, and it’s totally bogus.

In fact, the cadets will be on a disused military base in Suffolk.

Our group of thrill seekers will experience two weeks of intensive astronaut training believing they are in Star City, near Moscow, and labouring under the illusion that they are part of a real space mission.

A Slashdot article explains:

And to forestall the first question. They aren’t experiencing weightlessness due to a combination of being in a low orbit (rather than outer space where the weightlessness is) and a few under-floor gravity generators.

Newton wept.

One Slashdotter remarked:

Dammit, if I wanted to watch idiots being fooled by a large corporation, couldn’t I just go to the mall?