Why Discovery Channel Why?

I can't believe what I have watched the last couple of Sundays on the Discovery Channel.

Now I love science and have read Botany at university and I keep on reading and studying the world around us everyday. I have always had an inquisitive mind and loved PBS and other science related channels and programs while growing up. I always loved stopping along hiking trails and searching the natural debris just to see what it was made of. I had my own little microscope and hated the so called "standard experiments" that came with the instrument, but instead wanted to look at other stuff I found and get of the "beaten path" of known knowledge. I also did this with funny and semi-dangerous results with a "toy" chemistry set. My parents never appreciated this growing up as my dad, being an engineer for Ford Motor Company, was into putting everything into its own box and one must follow the written instructions. Experimentation was never his strong suit.

Seeing that I am wondering why the Discovery Channel insists on the idiotic documentaries that are so pseudo-scientific that they were laughable. First of all were the documentaries that could only be summed up as "CSI:Ancient Egypt". In it they were retelling the discoveries of King Tut and the Queen. They were trying to make it seem like they were going to absolutely and definitively say who killed both.

Well first of all the so called "crime scenes" were a bit tainted after say 5000-6000 years. But that didn't stop the "detectives" from carrying out their "investigations". Of course none of the "detectives" had a clue where or how either of the principles actually died, or if they even had the right bodies. But they were going to tell us what happened back then when they don't even have a clue who they were looking at? Oh c'mon don't insult our intelligence.

Another one was the "Iceman" found in the Alps. There were all these people arguing over how the Iceman died and why. Again they were putting in modern day values on the old society and ignored any facts that didn't fit in with their own biases and prejudices. How can any of them say what exactly was important in those days of "pre-history" when things weren't written down. Who is to say what different tools and implements made someone important? For example they said that having an axe made one important. How many of our leaders and politicians do you see carrying an axe? Or for that matter in the military the higher your rank, the less you carry. Why wasn't that true back then as well? Why wouldn't the low man on the totem be responsible for gathering wood and stuff like that where one needs an axe? Or is it the ego of the scientists trying to make their discovery, important as it is, the equivalent of finding a king's tomb. It is similar to the people who go to mediums and want to find out that they were once some famous person. You ever notice no one was ever told they were just a peon working in the fields or factories of old? So of course the "Iceman" had to be a chieftain to make it seem more important than it was.

The last group was last night's (4/13) on what the world would look like if humans were to disappear. Let's face it people, we already know what would happen. Look at the ruins in the jungles of Belize, or Angkor Wat in the jungle of Cambodia. It seemed more like someone wanted to show off computer graphics than actually show us science or offer new knowledge. Yes it is cool to watch buildings and famous structures crumble, but then again all we have to do is go to old western "ghost towns" to see that. So besides to put forth the "neo-flat earthers" political pseudo-science there was no point of the documentary. There was no real point or reason for it to be made, again, except for the ego of the producers. It was even poorly written and narrated by someone who sounded less than enthusiastic about the text, as if saying "Okay I did it, where's the check?"
"Neo-Flat Earthers" you say? What are those?

Well I am glad you asked. These are the pseudo-scientists that are running around like Chicken Little screaming that the "sky is falling" about the global warming problem. They only seem to want to blame industry and business. They of course are driving around in their big SUVs, having big parties that waste tons of electricity, live in huge buildings and suburbs that cause them to waste a lot of energy. Yet they are screaming at the poor and middle class to stop using energy and give them money so they can run around wasting more energy and not do any real work.

They ignore real science like the fact that climate change has happened many times in the past and yes it was drastic and changed the planet. They also leave out a most important piece of the puzzle in that the earth and our solar system's place in the universe is not static (This is why I call them "Neo-Flat Earthers). In fact the Earth is always evolving and moving. The poles are always moving. In fact there is proof that the poles were once offset by 90 degrees, and are moving that way. Also our Solar System is one in a huge Galaxy. We are forever orbiting the center of the Galaxy as our planet orbit the sun. The Galaxy is orbiting an axis point in the universe. What this does is change gravitational pull and that effects what happens here on Earth as well. Of course we really don't feel it as we are part of the system and it happens in such a non-dramatic way that it is easy to think that it is not happening (like the Earth spinning on its axis).

The ancient astronomers of China, Arabia and the Mayans knew this and plotted these out but are ignored by the NFE's of the west. What significance do you think that the year 2012 has on the Mayan Calendar? Some say it doesn't go further than December 21, 2012. Also there was a supposed lost book of Nostradamus that agrees with this prediction. Well if you match the two texts and add the Chinese discoveries you find that it appears that is when we will be in alignment with the center of our Galaxy. So basically it means one full orbit for us and our system. So naturally the gravitational pull of the Galaxy would change how our and other planets react.

Now I am all for informative, intelligent, and entertaining documentaries, but please quit insulting our intelligence with the oversimplified, exaggerated and outright lying of these latest offerings.

Mahalo.

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