There must be some kinda way out of here

Chr. and I had a long conversation last weekend about the veracity of visual images in the age of Photoshop and reality TV, and this article (courtesy BoingBoing) just further pollutes the truth-reality continuum.

The producers of "Big Brother," a long-running "reality" program with versions in many countries, are raising the stakes by fooling nine participants (who have already been sequestered) into believing they're travelling into space. They're already undergoing "training" by a former Russian cosmonaut and will spend their five days "in orbit" on what is really a recycled set from a Hollywood movie. The windows of the "craft" will actually be super high-definition monitors projecting an unending reel of high-altitude footage of the earth.

I don't care how many releases they make them sign. Some day one of these rubes is going to go after these producers with a gun.