I am leaving very soon. 1 more email I think, then sleep glorious sleep.

I wonder if they could use that same dye technology in stage blood? I would be REALLY interested if that were the case.

Another article on the space hoax show: [link]

The unwitting participants, who were selected for their suggestibility, are currently being kept in a secret location and denied all access to television or newspapers, which would instantly give the game away.

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Although the term space cadet is slang for someone who is distracted from reality, Shirley Jones, the show's executive producer, insisted the contestants were "not stupid people".

"Suggestibility is a psychological term that has no link with intelligence or gullibility. People who have a creative mind tend to be quite suggestible. All the tests we did have been done in conjunction with a psychologist," she said.

Anyone with a military background or knowledge of space was instantly ruled out. In the next selection stage, the remaining applicants were taken on an adventure-training course in the Lake District.

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Before filming began, the participants were asked to nominate three close family members or friends whom they have trusted to give final consent, all of whom have told Channel 4 they believe their loved ones will see the funny side.

And if they don't, at the end of the show there will be a surprise sweetener of £5,000 for every day they have spent in orbit. How the show ends depends on what happens. In the ideal circumstance that the illusion is sustained and three contestants believe they have genuinely spent the past five days in orbit, the producers are considering sending them out of the craft one by one on a "space walk". When the door opens, instead of finding themselves 100km above the Earth's surface, mum and dad will be there to greet them.

Were you planning on doing the furniture thing Saturday or Sunday, msbelle?

I need a nap so much, but I've agreed to go out to dinner. Great restaurant and a server I have a huge crush on, but I'm needing my bunk, and just for sleeping. Oh well, much sleeping in to occur tomorrow. My boss heads out in moments, I'm not going to hang around the office too much longer.

More:

The training they receive will consist of lectures delivered by actors accompanied by a genuine space expert, in which 80 per cent of the information will be true and 20 per cent fiction. Issues that will be explained to them include the fact they will not be weightless in near space and that, like Sir Richard Branson's space-tourist shuttles, their craft will take off horizontally rather than vertically.

Mixing the truth with fiction - hey, that's what Cylons do!

Tom, insent.

interrupting your regular natter for a Disco Turkey Cartoon

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the producers are considering sending them out of the craft one by one on a "space walk". When the door opens, instead of finding themselves 100km above the Earth's surface, mum and dad will be there to greet them.

Oh, man, that is evil.

That's... that's... mean. I mean, okay, if their families are so sure, then maybe they will appreciate the joke. But if anybody ever pulled such a stunt on me? I don't even know. I wouldn't call it friendly, is what I'm saying.