Space/Science — HabitableZone

Space/Science » in reply to re: Yeah. Actually I'm not sure about CNN. - BTW and Yeah...

Honestly, I haven't seen the media negativity.

Sure, there's a lot of stuff sometimes on "what might go wrong," but that's less about being anti-NASA than the standard "crepe-hanging" newspeople do to raise the excitement level. Again, newspeople HAVE to be talking about something or they explode.

I used to watch "Ice Road Truckers," and the program had to bust its ass to generate excitement because the reality was that the ice road trucking industry is so heavily monitored by the companies for safety that serious crap almost never happens. So much of the program was computerized simulations of what would happen IF the truck went through the ice, IF the drill support broke, IF the sewage truck spun out and sprayed shit all over the polar bears.

Add dramatic suspenseful music and lots of shots of the trucks going by taken from under the ice, all while the trucks are buzzing back and forth without incident, and there you go.

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