Someone in the Forums recently mentioned how survival preparedness has gone mainstream (or at least it is on the radar screen, however briefly…perhaps until hurricane season is over).

Along those lines, a new Discovery Kids’ program called Flight 29 Down has posted a “Survival Manual” on the web at http://kids.discovery.com/fansites/29down/survivalmanual/survivalmanual.html

Flight 29 Down is described in the media as Lost for tweeners and teenagers (I had to ask my wife what on earth a tweener is). I encountered the program because my Cub Scout son likes Endurance on Saturday mornings and Flight 29 Down comes on right before it. My son connected with the program, I suppose, because one of the characters was a Boy Scout (experience they don’t treat very sympathetically << heavy sigh >>).

It’s not fair to compare TV fantasies with ETS, but they really could stand to hire Mr. Ritter as a consultant, and I sent a note to Discovery Kids to that effect. I guess that makes me an optimist.