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1. tekk (tekk@social.tekk.in)'s status on Friday, 20-Oct-2017 12:51:32 EDT tekk
   The japanese show Supreme Skills is exactly the kind of show Discovery Channel should be doing
   1. tekk (tekk@social.tekk.in)'s status on Friday, 20-Oct-2017 12:53:52 EDT tekk

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      Here's the premise: You have some problem (sliding a coaster down a bar, launching a world record paper airplane, etc.) and you get 2 teams to do it, 1 usually from the industry and one usually from academia. They have the set contest to compete at at the end and the winner is who does it better.
      1. tekk (tekk@social.tekk.in)'s status on Friday, 20-Oct-2017 12:55:12 EDT tekk

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         The only real problem is that when you get those industry vs academia matchups in every episode I've seen academia loses because they're more interested in exploiting some cool property than actually solving the problem. In paper planes it was a stunning victory though, a plane built to make use of the ground effect to get a long glide wen most planes would have stopped ages ago.