Talk:Space Cadets (TV series)

message: Who came up with the name and format of the show?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.197.207.87 (talk) 14:35, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Name & Format

message: A person very similar to Ryan McBride also features in this UK Blood Transfusion Advert
Which bodes the question, is the hoax on the viewing public?
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(was in the article)  violet/riga (t) 21:49, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The similarity is uncanny - is it actually him? StephenHildrey 21:50, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Whoa, I'd sure think it was him in a police lineup - Well spotted, either the joke is on us, it's someone similar or he is indeed the same person yet has no idea of the trick? It's looking more like the former to me.. -Benbread 22:09, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

text: I found a thread on the Channel 4 Space Cadets forums about this topic, as well as an apparent post from "A friend of Ryans" about him being in the advert but out of pure luck, though myself and others doubt the authenticity of the post. See for yourself: http://community.channel4.com/groupee/forums/a/tpc/f/3490031163/m/9410012463
-Benbread 22:25, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Well it sure does look like him. McBride is also Scottish, and the chap in the ad is wearing a Scotland football shirt as well as standing in in front of a Scottish flag. I'ts him alright. Jooler 00:09, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It's the same guy, but does that really mean anything? I don't think they use actors for this sort of thing. They probably just pick people from the blood donor lists and offer them the chance. If anything, this tells us that Ryan is the sort of person to say "yes" when offered the chance to appear on television as a non-actor - in reality TV shows and adverts such as this. WMarsh 00:37, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Rumbled...The whole lot of them are straight from central casting, and the whoops and ghasps are all scripted.  All that's missing is Ant and Dec asking us to vote them off one-at-a-time at a quid a vote :-). 160.84.253.241 08:44, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

text: And that "Johnny Vaughan" robot is so fake... --80.3.179.56 13:55, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

text:  LOL! Someone also said the same thing on the E4 follow-up programme last night (I was waiting for South Park, honest) and I thought I saw the host flinch. Ah, how I love discussion pages, where we can put all the stuff that wouldn't make the encyclopaedia! --Si42 21:34, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

text: Hah! Wow. It's just been mentioned on the programme, and yeah it's the same guy, but he's not an actor - he just got a job as an extra in the advert. --Sum0 21:46, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Or so they say...! ;)  violet/riga (t) 21:47, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Have you seen that contestant before? 

message: Actually, I don't think we should blame the participants too much if they are fooled.  Apart from the point about the lack of weightlessness, which could cause some some people with only a limited knowledge of science or space travel to start thinking, we must assume that the programme makers have put a lot of thought into making the whole exercise plausible, I don't think we should describe it as patently absurd.  Although, are they going to set up an apparent encounter with an alien spacecraft? (Just a thought.)  Presumably their training programme has been deliberately designed to encourage them to concentrate on becoming the 4 to go into space, and avoid giving them much time to start thinking.  If one of them does show signs of beginning to wonder, presumably one of the actors among the competitors will have a quiet word and they will be pulled out.  People often have been taken in by TV hoaxes, "Nationwide" did some brilliant April Fools in the past e.g. I remember my father (normally a level-headed person) was completely taken in by an absurd story about 2 pilots fighting a duel to decide which of them would marry a French woman. PatGallacher 23:52, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: No, by any reckoning the show's definitely patently absurd. But you're right, unfortunately the public believes this sort of rubbish (I mean seriously, spaghetti trees??? come on). And people wonder why BNSC doesn't have astronauts. --J. Atkins (talk - contribs) 11:22, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Gullibility?

message: * "Space Cadets" is also the name of a legal herbal hallucinogenic drug,
 similar in effect to LSD - in that it alters perceptions and takes the user
 to another dimension
I took this out of the article because I couldn't find a good source for it. I did find a bunch of references on google, but they all appeared to be selling the product. It appears to be more of a 'brand name' than anything else. If anyone wants to put this back in, I'd suggest they reword it also. --JiFish(Talk/Contrib) 02:05, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: They saw the shutters; presumably they were told that the shutters were to protect against sunlight. smurrayinchester(User), (Ho Ho Ho!) 15:36, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Drug 

message: The article states that the team went to Russia to train as astronauts, but afaik russian "astronauts" are called "cosmonauts".  I'm not familiar with the series, so I can't "correct" the article if it's sposta be "cosmonauts".  Someone who knows?  Tomertalk 05:22, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: They were called Cosmonauts on the show as well. Might as well change it. smurrayinchester(User), (Talk) 07:47, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, I changed all occurrences of "astronaut" to "cosmonaut"...including one in a quotation.  if the actual quotation said "astronauts" tho, that one should be changed back.  Tomertalk 08:14, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I actually spoke to Helen Sharman once, she was the first Briton in space and went up on a Russian rocket. Her line on the whole astronaut vs cosmonaut issue was this: it should always be "astronaut" when you're speaking english, and always be "cosmonaut" when you're speaking russian. She felt they were the same word but in two different languages. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 212.146.46.247 (talk) 11:53, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yep, it's really just a language difference; Chinese astronauts are called taikonauts, ESA's astronauts are called spatianauts, it's all down to language. Usually you have to be Russian to be a cosmonaut; Peggy Whitson didn't become a cosmonaut because she flew on the Soyuz. --J. Atkins (talk - contribs) 11:26, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  astronauts vs. cosmonauts 

message: How did the participants react as they found out it was all a hoax? The article currently only has "viewer reactions". --Sangild 09:21, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Participants' reaction 

message: Have there actually been any sources for the section? All the citations are from Channel 4's message board which isn't really a valid source. EvilCouch (talk) 09:54, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Double hoax 

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