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Australian Astronaut Reality TV Show One Big Scam

8:01PM April 12, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

While the whole world is swept up in Virgin Galactic fever, an Aussie scam-artist who fooled the world with plans for an astronaut reality TV show (even hiring Professor Stephen Hawking as a judge, supposedly) has unsurprisingly vanished. More »


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The Hills Girls Analyse the Large Hadron Collider

12:00PM October 31, 2008 | Gizmodo US Edition

I don’t watch The Hills, but that doesn’t mean I’m not entertained when I see Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt prancing around and pretending they aren’t posing for the cameras: in this clip, Audrina attempts to get scientific with the Big Bang theory and the Large Hadron Collider. Her friend explains that the Large Hadron Collider is used for colliding subatomic particles together—but maybe it can be used to see if there are any particles in that organ that lies between Audrina’s ears. [GeekSugar]


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How I Survived a Japanese Game Show: The Gigantic Human Prize Claw Game

1:30AM July 5, 2008 | Gizmodo US Edition

newVideoPlayer("/soisurvived2.flv", 506, 280,""); The new episode still follows most of the tired reality show conventions and spends too much time on the stunningly boring contestants, but the brief game show events still impress. This week’s challenge: become a human claw game, picking up prizes as teammates control your x, y and z axis movement. This challenge aired much to the chagrin of Claw Machine Boy, whose chronic PTSD triggered hard when this episode aired. Stay tuned for a weekly review of the 45 seconds of this show that is worth watching. [ABC]

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Justin Timberlake Presents New MTV Reality Show Called “The Phone”

11:00AM May 11, 2008 | Gizmodo US Edition

Hey, Justin Timberlake here. Just checking to see if you senoritas are n*sync with my plans to bring sexy back to reality television. Next season, MTV’s going to rock your body with a new reality game show called “The Phone,” to be executive-produced by yours truly. Here’s the premise:

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