Space Cadets - cruel and humilating joke?

I always thought they should have a serial killer in the house... And every week the cameras and lights are turned of for an hour and the killer gets the chance to bump someone off.. Then the cameras and lights are turned on... The house mates get a week to find and vote the killer off or another is bumped off..... i
f there good they live! if not.... there dead...Xp

Originally posted by mechmoggy
"Doesn't blow as much as Big Brother"

That's a far better description. 😉

There's a word for objects or ideas that fall into this category: things.

Originally posted by lil bitchiness
For you guys in the UK, unless you've been in the dungeon for the past month or so, you've heard of the new show called Space Cadets.

For you who havent, here is the link explaining what show is about http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/microsites/S/spacecadets/about/index.html

Basically, the team of entertainers are gonna trick a group of people to make them believe they will be trained to go space in an Russian Star City near Moscow, when in fact they will never leave the UK soil, let alone go into space.

They will have an intense training and be made believe they are a part of real space mission.

Do you think this is rather cruel and humiliating, even for a practical joke?
These people have been selected purposefully as the people most likely to be tricked into believing into anything, and those people genuanly believe they will be trained and sent off into space, as the first members of public to do so.
Is this not going little too far in the name of entertainment?

I am struggling to comprehend how they even got the ethical aproval to do this.
How would you feel if you were humiliated, like those people are going to be after they find out they have been tricked, in front of a whole nation of people?

What are your thoughts?

That is ethically immoral. I would guess that the participants will seek some sort case against the tv show in court. It would be suiting.

Originally posted by meep-meep
That is ethically immoral. I would guess that the participants will seek some sort case against the tv show in court. It would be suiting.

There's no realistic case they could bring.

It is cruel and humiliating, but I mean, who exactly is foolish enough to fall for that. The people on it are so dumb to believe it all, as they didnt experience weightlessness, and there were hardly any 'reporters' at the press conference.

I had thought that ALL of the cadets were actually acotrs, and the 'biggest TV hoax ever' was actually to fool us members of the public (sort of a social experiment to see how far people would go and just exactly what we would tolerate)