BBC To Air First Televised Sperm Race 60
weekendwarrior1980 writes "BBC 3, a digital TV channel in the UK, is televising a race involving the sperm of presenters Dr Mike Leahy and Zeron Gibson. The sperm race will be part of the educational Lab Rats series. Gibson is a comedian and Leahy is a scientist. The network considers this a 'creative risk' but wants to reach out to an audience that avoids educational shows. The show will be broadcasted on April 15th at 2330 BST. Future shows will examine sleep deprivation and centrifugal force."
Reality TV (Score:1, Insightful)
Wow.... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Wow.... (Score:2)
Re:Wow.... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Wow.... (Score:1)
One of those uplifting thoughts... (Score:5, Funny)
Just remember.
You beat ALL those other sperm to the egg.
You won at something.
Re:One of those uplifting thoughts... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:One of those uplifting thoughts x2 (Score:5, Funny)
Half of you won a foot (er.. tail?) race against millions of other competetors.
The other half of you repelled a simultaneous attack by those same millions of loosers (kinda like the burly brawl in the Matrix).
You're equal parts Olympic 100m sprint Gold Medalist and World Champion Kickboxer.
Whats not to be proud of?
Less than half... (Score:1)
Re:One of those uplifting thoughts... (Score:3, Funny)
Oh yeah: you insensitive clod!
Re:One of those uplifting thoughts... (Score:2)
And you're never going to win anything, ever again :-)
Re:One of those uplifting thoughts... (Score:2)
CENTRIPETAL FORCE (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:CENTRIPETAL FORCE (Score:1)
Centripetal force is a resultant force (since in circular motion an object undergoes constant acceleration). As used in most physics classes (etc.), it is introduced as a compensatory fictional force that makes a non-inertial frame of reference seem like an inertial one.
Centrifugal force is the counter-force to centripetal force, so it is fictional too. But it is the perceived force in one of those rotating things (I can't remember the name at the moment).
Re:CENTRIPETAL FORCE (Score:4, Informative)
Centripetal force is real. If there was no centripetal force, there would be no acceleration, and the object in question would not follow a circular path. In the classic "bucket on a rope" example, the centripetal force on the bucket is applied by the rope.
Centrifugal "force" is not the counter-force to centripetal force, and indeed, can exist even in the absence of centripetal force.
Re:CENTRIPETAL FORCE (Score:3, Informative)
Centrifugal force should be called by it's real name, which is easier to pronounce....inertia
Re:CENTRIPETAL FORCE (Score:1)
True, since you're accelerating, there's a net force on you.
> It is the force from the body to the center of it's rotation.
This can use some clarification.
It is the net force on the body towards the center of rotation. But the net force has to be contributed from somewhere, and that's usually not from the body itself.
e.g. when you're sitting in a centrifugal machine you're constantly accelerating towards to center of rotation. That is the net force on you. But indeed
Re:CENTRIPETAL FORCE (Score:1)
It can't "exist" because it's not a real force. Centrifugal is an apprent or imaginary force. It's easy to explain why we feel we're being pushed away from the centre of the arc with Centrifugal force, but that's not what really happens. Centripetal force is the force that's causing the object to constantly accelerate towards the centre. Since our body has an inertia, its
Re:CENTRIPETAL FORCE (Score:1)
I know that it's not real. But it can appear to exist when centripetal force does not exist.
Re:CENTRIPETAL FORCE (Score:1)
Re:CENTRIPETAL FORCE (Score:1)
Centripetal force must exist in uniform circular motion. But centrifugal "force" does not require uniform circular motion in order to appear to exist, only a rotating reference frame.
Here we go again. (Score:3, Insightful)
To set the record straight: A "centripetal" force is any force that causes an object to move in a circular path. When swinging something on a rope, the centripetal force is the tension in the rope. With orbiting planets, the centripetal force is gravity.
"Centrifugal force" is a fictional force invented to allow one to use Newton's laws in
Re:CENTRIPETAL FORCE (Score:3, Insightful)
Here's the short explanation of why the centrifugal force is "imaginary": The centrifugal force is used only by people who are in rotating frames (for example: standing on the edge of a turntable) to explain why balls they drop tend to fall away from them instead of straight down. An observer who is not rotating needs no centrifugal force to explain this: the ball simply travels in a straight lin
Re:CENTRIPETAL FORCE (Score:2)
Gravity looks fictional to someone in freefall who can't feel a thing.
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And the winner gets... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:And the winner gets... (Score:1)
Damn, it'd be nice to have recognition for your sperm.
Gambling (Score:4, Insightful)
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what for? (Score:2, Interesting)
Why? To get some raw ratings numbers? Why 'reach out' in this way? Is there some educational purpose they have in mind? If it's an educational program, and they do something 'spectacular' to get an audience, but cease in the process to be an educational program.... why?
Re:what for? (Score:4, Insightful)
If an educational program loses its audience, it ceases to educate.
BBC3 (Score:2)
Also a mess of logos, branding and other on-screen, in-programme advertising junk. A channel that I pay for with my license fee but can't stand to watch because of the aforementioned distracting junk. A channel that I *must* pay for if I own a television, otherwise I'll go to jail. Yeah, I love BBC3.
Re:BBC3 (Score:1)
When I watched TV, I preferred BBC channels to the other ones, just because they didn't have the ads. I would be happy to pay the licensing fee if I want ad-free TV. What I can't convince myself is if
Re:BBC3 (Score:2)
The quandary I'm in at the moment is that at the end of my current TV license I intend to stop watching television. There are many programmes that I want to watch but I have objections to some of the BBC's policies and therefore I will choose to no longer finance them.
The law, as it stands at the moment, is that if I stop funding the BBC then I am not allowed to watch any other channels either, so I will obey the law. I
Re:BBC3 (Score:5, Informative)
You'll be glad to hear then that you're wrong.
Remove the aerial, detune the TV (just reset the channel data), and notify the TV Licensing guys. Tell them your TV is only being used for DVDs/games and you then you don't have to pay. This info hidden away on the TVL site somewhere, and it's what I did.
They emailed me back to say they'd come round and check (they haven't), and that i'd be noted in the database so they don't send me letters demanding I pay up.
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Re:BBC3 (Score:1)
AFAIK (and IANAL) as long as your TV is not capable of receiving TV input you are alright. This covers RGB and composite inputs. If you don't have a tuner this means you don't have a receiver. Licensing Centre licenses receivers and these cove
Re:BBC3 (Score:2)
Re:BBC3 (Score:2)
When I moved, I ditched my 46" TV and digital cable for a 3" black and white portable, the idea being that if a TV is battery powered, it doesn't need to be licenced (well, that's the gist of it. It's more complex than that.) I have a 15" LCD (Apple Studio Display) for my PS2 for watching DVDs and playing games.
I've found that although I was watching 6-8 hours a day of TV, I now watch about 1 hour a month, and that's when I'm staying with friends, and I don't miss it in the slightest.
There's about o
Decadent western society and SF (Score:1, Flamebait)
Does this mean wanking is a sport from now on??
Re:Decadent western society and SF (Score:3, Interesting)
I would actually consider public acceptance to this event as an advancement. It is good that people see sex as a norm of life now instead of an embargo in the past.
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Re:Decadent western society and SF (Score:1)
Racetrack? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Racetrack? (Score:1)
Re:Racetrack? (Score:2)
Where's the excitement in that?
It's not the first televised sperm race (Score:3, Insightful)
is the urr.. "donating" included in the race? (Score:1)
Cheating? (Score:3, Funny)