no. NO NO NO

[Cain]

 

I have only myself to blame.  I've gotten about half way through Shirer's rather magnificent "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich."  Anyway, I'm messing around on TPB, looking for the text of those leaked diplomatic cables, when I see there is a TV program called "Ancient Aliens" and this particular episode is called Aliens of the Third Reich.  I'm dubious, but download it for a laugh.

Now I want to kill someone.  And I see this is produced by the so-called History Channel, no less.

[Thurnez Isa]

 
Im going to find that later tonight after class

[Cuddlefish]

I think I may have seen this. It was interesting, but speculative fiction should be presented as such. Especially if it's on the History Channel.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

The only thing that I remember the History Channel doing something like this was their episode on Die Glocken and the other one on Nazi efforts to create a flying disc. Gonna have to look this one up for a laugh.

Blight,
Misses the days when the History Channel was obsessed with the Roman Empire and the Civil War.

[AFK]

I actually watched a bit of one of the Ancient Aliens episodes.  It centered around evidence of Aliens mining for gold way back before humans were mining.  It was pretty goofy. 

The History Channel does have a few jewels in the rough.  The Universe series is pretty good. 

[Suu]

Ugh, not the Hitlery Channel...my history prof has colleagues that do work for them, he's been begging them to quit. Apparently all they do is edit the shit out of the interviews and raid old theatres for costumes.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

I actually watched a bit of one of the Ancient Aliens episodes.  It centered around evidence of Aliens mining for gold way back before humans were mining.  It was pretty goofy. 

The History Channel does have a few jewels in the rough.  The Universe series is pretty good. 

It is, and that's how I found out cool things like there being liquid metallic hydrogen in Jupiter's core.

That said though, History Channel seems to be plagued with Zecharia Sitchin/2012/Nostradamus stuff. You'd think that aliens would have better shit to take from us than gold. Like, you know, uranium or petroleum, rare earth metals...

...maybe that's why they're rare!  

[Nephew Twiddleton]

I forgot about Naked Archaeologist too...

Not only is he not naked, but he focuses on confirming Biblical accounts.

[Suu]

The History Channel is plagued with shit that is ENTERTAINING, not informative. They feel like they do their job by making sure that the rednecks watching it can at least learn SOMETHING, even if it's about Hitler's underwear.

[Suu]

I forgot about Naked Archaeologist too...

Not only is he not naked, but he focuses on confirming Biblical accounts.

That show makes General Stuart cry.

I do love Zahi Hawass though. That man is the epitome of a cranky archaeologist. He must hate being involved with Chasing Mummies since the actors they got for the fellows drive me batshit (and clearly him as well), but they really do find some cool shit.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

That show makes General Stuart cry.

I do love Zahi Hawass though. That man is the epitome of a cranky archaeologist. He must hate being involved with Chasing Mummies since the actors they got for the fellows drive me batshit (and clearly him as well), but they really do find some cool shit.

Hawass was always a cool bastard in my book. Never watched Chasing Mummies but I might have to check it out now.

[Suu]

Hawass was always a cool bastard in my book. Never watched Chasing Mummies but I might have to check it out now.

He's for real. He's HATES the show, and you can see it every time he chastises the living shit out of someone. I just did some due diligence and according to the History Channel forums, he's likely to not do another season. I can't say that I blame him. They would shoot something like 20 hours of work a week, and then cut it down to almost nothing, and all the dramatic shit that happened that wasn't even relevant. Why the show picked 3 whiny Canadian students as his interns, I have no clue. (They all go to McGill.)

[Nephew Twiddleton]

He's for real. He's HATES the show, and you can see it every time he chastises the living shit out of someone. I just did some due diligence and according to the History Channel forums, he's likely to not do another season. I can't say that I blame him. They would shoot something like 20 hours of work a week, and then cut it down to almost nothing, and all the dramatic shit that happened that wasn't even relevant. Why the show picked 3 whiny Canadian students as his interns, I have no clue. (They all go to McGill.)

Must be very frustrating for him. The problem is is that History Channel is more for entertainment than information. People don't like information. It's not interesting enough for them. They need the drama to go along with it.

[Suu]

Did you see the show he did in which he did find Queen Hatshepsut in a completely random mummy within the Cairo Museum, even though they had to do all that excavating in the Valley of the Kings? Yeah...That took something like 7 years worth of work, and they boiled it down to a 2 hour special. ~_~

[Suu]

Nevermind, it was Discovery Channel...same shit, less drama. Definitely worth a watch though. It was freaking cool how they did it.

http://www.drhawass.com/events/quest-hatshepsut-discovering-mummy-egypts-greatest-female-pharaoh