To have no interest whatsoever in this comet landing news item?

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Doesn't interest me

I do find it quite interesting, but when a tweet about it landed right above one about a nearby hospital trust having to save £91 million, over the next 3 years, it put it into perspective, somewhat.

I'm not interested in Corrie, Eastenders and Emerdale. Wouldn't start a thread about it though......

Be interested. Don't be interested. Up to you. But why on earth come on here to post about your disinterest in something? The news has hardly taken over the world the way other news items like Ebola or Air Malaysia planes have done. So why broadcast your disinterest? It really doesn't reflect well on you.

YABU.

Scientists might be able to work out how it all began 4.5 billion years ago from the historical events of today!

Wouldn't you like to know?!

I'm fascinated by it. But then I love all things space related, I'm a closet geek

Ignore, ignore.

And those worrying about the cost - the spacecraft was launched 10 years ago, before the bankers fucked up the world's finances. The majority of the cost would have been back then. And secondly, it only cost 1.4bn Euro - peanuts in terms of government spending. UK banks were fined twice that this week, and as the Guardian tells us, it's half the price of a submarine.

Why bash the OP? She can start a thread about anything she wants. You don't have to agree with her, that's kind of the point. Instead of having a go why not tell her why you think it's so great. Wow, all she said is she doesn't find something interesting.

I'm not interested in space either. Shoot me.

What comet?

Yabu. I have no interest in any of those people in big brother or similar reality tv programs. However i dont say anything or read anything about them as not interested. Do find the comet interesting as i didnt think they could do it. Its a major achievement and cant wait to see the pictures. However can understand others wouldnt find it interesting. If we all liked the same things wont life be boring. Each to their own interest.... (Sat next to a man today on the plane reading a magazine on golf which i view as the most boring so called game in the world, but i was reading a book on the american west which im sure others wouldnt enjoy...)

Maybe we need to find out more about comets, in case one is ever on a collision course with Earth. The more we know, the easier it will be to find a way to shove it off course and avert global oblivion.

I'm not all that interested in comets, but other people are - just as well, I suppose...

Wow. Human beings are this tiny little blip in a unimaginably vast universe. 10 years ago we launched a little spacecraft which has been slowly orbiting around the solar system (slingshoting around earth twice!) travelling millions of miles, heading towards a comet which is only a few miles in diameter and travelling at 34,000 mph. And after 10 years we actually reach the comet! And then to put the icing on the cake we only go and land something the size of a washing machine on its surface... It makes me proud to be a member of the human race. It's astounding, incredible and inspiring.

It is as much a fact not to be interested in something, as to be interested in it. I'm baffled by the people who think an expression of disinterest is not of, well, interest. It is an opinion like any other.

OP, why do you think you're not interested? all seems a bit remote and inconsequential? I probably agree.

People bang on about the cost of space exploration. However human exploration is a fantastic motivational force and goal for science. It provides an ambition and stretches the boundaries of our understanding.

The huge cost, ends on being passed back in time because of the discoveries and advancements that are made as a result which often have very practical applications in every day life in even the most dull situation.

This has been proven time and time again through our history. I think in many respects we can't afford to stop exploring the universe and during that process the limits of abilities.

As Edmund Hilary once said "It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves".

'Inspiring' is the word I'd use about this. We could do with a little of that in the world of science.

Agree with Redtoothbrush - it is inspiring, what we can achieve and how far and fast we have come in the last century - remember it is only just over 100 years ago that the Wright brothers first flew. The research and invention that goes into these projects has all kinds of knock on effects.

I think it is an amazing achievement. But maybe you'd rather talk about Rhianna or Beyoncé..............

Woman on the bus dropped her newspaper this morning. She picked it up. I didn't find that interesting either.

What a lot of spiteful posts (which are mostly saying exactly the same thing).
The op is perfectly entitled to express her opinion about a news item.
She isn't being rude to anyone. I wonder why people are taking this so personally?

I thought the OP's comment was quite sneery and suggested that it was ridiculous to be interested... I read a certain tone in it. Maybe not everyone is reading it the same.

I don't understand why anyone would post that they didnt care about it.

It is interesting though. Imagine, travelling for ten years, ten years (!), to land on a rock which is billions of years old flying about in space.

It is mind blowing.

I find it a bit interesting, but mainly because it reminds me of Bruce Willis in Armageddon (or whatever it was).

I've always found anyone who doesn't like all and only the things I like to be a bit weird.

And that was the headline on the 6 o clock news, was it Andrew?

But but but, it's so incredibly cool.

Twenty odd years ago a group of people designed and built a machine that would spend a decade travelling 500 million miles to land on a comet. And it WORKED!!!

That's just amazing!

On top of that, it's really really really really really far away and we can communicate with it with only a 30min delay.

So, so cool.

I apologise if we're boring you but please indulge the rest of us cause we're just a bit impressed.