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* Brannon Braga, of ''[[Star Trek]]'' fame, went on to create a short-lived sci-fi series also called ''[[Threshold]]''. The premise? [[Assimilation Plot|Alien space signals]] cause people's DNA to begin re-writing itself! At least this time, the characters acknowledged that this should be totally impossible and had trouble dealing with the idea that it was actually happening.
** Totally impossible...within our understanding. It's always worth remembering that in 2100 they will laugh at us for the things we knew for certain in 2010.
*** Science Does Not Work That Way. The march of progress shows you where your prior knowledge was incomplete or your prior observations in error. It does not mean things you have already ''verified'' as true suddenly ''stop'' being true. Example: the fact that Newtonian physics stops giving accurate results at relativistic velocities did not mean that everything Newton had discovered suddenly stopped working, it just meant that it didn't apply to certain things he hadn't measured yet.
* In the first episode of ''[[Primeval]]'', Cutter comes across a human skeleton. He is initially worried that it may be [[Chekhov MIA|his missing wife]], but he soon realizes that it's a male skeleton and thus can't be her. Fair enough, but ''the way he checks'' is by ''[[Lamarck Was Right|counting the number of ribs]]''. Never mind that this is based solely on the [[The Bible|Biblical account]], which even then only affected one individual from who knows how long ago. Checking the shape of the hipbones would be be easier.
* On ''Rides'', the build team works to incorporate a real human skull into a spooky-themed vehicle's sound system. The narrator constantly refers to the skull as "he" and "Don", yet the ''numerous'' close-ups show features that suggest it's really a "Donna". Granted, the show's cast have no training to recognize this ... but you'd think the suppliers who provided the skull would've mentioned it.
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* [[QI]] had an episode about animals and [[Sean Lock]], either as a joke he kept up all evening (claiming that he learned everything he knew about animals from glamour-model Katie Price), or through what he professed to be sincere ignorance, were unable to score a lot of points. Among other "facts", he claimed that that Rhinos are dinosaurs, because he throught they were called "Rhinosaurus".
* An episode of the [[National Geographic Channel]]'s series ''World's Deadliest'' claimed that the lion is the largest African predator. A large Nile crocodile can weigh five times as much.
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