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The sample size was good. Over fifty people responded.
Here are the poll results on the perceived "realness" or "trustworthiness" of each of the four TV shows.
20 (38%)
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3 (5%)
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9 (17%)
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20 (38%)
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The amazing thing to me is how precisely the results matched my own feelings. The poll respondents put the shows in exactly the same order that I would, and the relative number of votes for each show reflected how I felt about the shows.
Bering Sea Gold and Gold Rush were selected as being the most real or trustworthy by the same number of people, and both of those shows received more than twice the number of votes received by either of the other shows.
I also had a hard time deciding which of those two I trusted most. It was a toss up. I like Bering Sea gold better, but that has nothing to do my feeling about it being more real.
Coming in third was the Curse of Oak Island show. That is where I would put it too. I think it is an interesting, even with all of its short-comings. I can watch it, even with all of the dramatization and baiting.
And dead last in trustworthiness according to the poll results was the Cooper's Treasure show, which, as I think I said before, almost makes me feel like I need to take a shower after watching a few minutes.
It seems that there are a lot of people that feel the same. That was my feeling from the first few minutes, and I wondered if everybody else felt that way. Evidently many did.
For me the meeting between Darrell Miklos and Gene Kranz said it all. Darrell had obviously misled Gene about the purpose or topic of the meeting in order to arrange a meeting, and then tried to get Gene to say something about the topic of treasure. Gene didn't appreciate being misled and put an abrubt end to the meeting and walked off.
Below is a link to an article on the Cooper's Treasure program by Variety, an entertainment publication, and even they address what I would call ethics issues. That article starts with the following.
The poorly kept secret of unscripted TV is that it is, in general, rather scripted. Ari Mark and Phil Lott, co-founders of production company AMPLE, are looking to affix that “un-” back where it belongs.
“Our generation, you’re at a point where you want to believe in things,” Mark tells Variety. “Everything in your life is fake, and especially in our genre.”
Here is that link.
http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/coopers-treasure-discovery-ample-darrell-miklos-1202011043/Here is that link.
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I've made several references to space lately, ranging from meteorites to rocket parts. Occasionally people discover what appear to be melted metal from Shuttle launches on the Treasure Coast. I've written about that, provided tips on how to test that metal to distinguish it from melted aluminum and reported on some people who talked to NASA to verify that their finds were related to space shots.
On May 7 it was reported that The U.S. Air Force's secretive X-37B mini-
I've said before that someday people will be salvaging space vehicles and debris similar to how shipwrecks are salvaged now. In fact there is a space vehicle that orbits while collecting space junk to turn into fuel that it can use. Interesting idea.
I recently heard it said (I think it was on TED) that if you want a new idea, read an old book. I agree with that, but there are other ways to get new ideas too. Creativity is stimulated by reading broadly.
Continuing on the subject of space, there is a good web site that offers a wide variety of "space collectibles." Here is the link.
http://www.collectspace.com/
http://www.collectspace.com/
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Did you know that there is a company that will manufacture cobs that are hand struck from die that are custom made? They hand strike them on planchets. You can send them the silver after I investigate it more.
I'll have more on that in the future.
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Did you know that there is a company that will manufacture cobs that are hand struck from die that are custom made? They hand strike them on planchets. You can send them the silver after I investigate it more.
I'll have more on that in the future.
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Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net
