[xDGx]

You got me there, not being an idiot-box devotee I had no idea there was a show of that name. Is this the one?

http://www.tv.com/national-geographic-channel-megastructures/show/42430/summary.html

I’m sure it has lots of fancy graphics and catch phrases for the attention-span challenged. If it’s in the vein of a ‘Modern Marvels’ they are fun to watch , but hardly convey the depth of knowledge to offer anything more than superficial cocktail conversation at the Engineer’s Club.

As for the topic at hand, it is the withering of the boob tube audience. Unless they are re-running Burke’s Connections or Day the Universe Changed (or something equivalent), it’s just so much Reader’s Digest summaries, neatly quartered to nest between commercial messages.

But maybe you are on to something, perhaps I should turn the darkened tube back on, I need a good lecture on global warming from a Weather Channel ‘climate expert’

[knews_hound]

Do whatever you like.

I never understand why someone who *says* they don’t watch TV would come on the thread about TV watching habits to proclaim that they don’t watch TV.

But I digress.

Knock yourself out.

Watch TV or don’t. I couldn’t care one way or the other.

FYI - Megastructures is a show about Engineering. Hosted by and written by an Engineer. It shows the challenges and obstacles faced by Engineers as they build structures, bridges and other very large scale projects.

Oh yeah, fancy graphics and catch phrases. Yep, sure, uh huh.

The kind that keep real Engineers like me interested.

But thanks for the condescension. I enjoy being talked down to Soooooo much.

I will go look at the flashy lights on my equipment now.

All us Engineers like flashy lights. Beeping noises too.

We are after all, easily entertained.

Cheers,

knewshound