To be a bit meh about all the moon programmes?

[MoonyMcMoonFace]

I think I am. I usually love history and find space interesting, though I find it hard to wrap my head round. But I’m quite “whatever” about all the coverage. Maybe it’s just been too much?

Is there a good programme that will change my mind?

In many ways its the biggest achievement humankind has EVER achieved. 50 years later and only 24 people have ever been there. You cant really put into words what it changed about the world.

It took 400,000 people to achieve, using less computing power than exists in a mobile phone. The cost in today's money was over £100 Billion. I do not know how every person on the planet isn't humbled by it.

To be meh about that is just ... there isn't words

I think you know the answer @MoonyMcMoonFace

I find it completely fascinating, and a huge achievement! I have watched several programmes over the last few weeks, Stargazing Live with Brian Cox and Dara O'Briain was good. It humbles me to think that we were able to send humans to the moon, and what could be possible in the future.

It's all insufferably tedious.

Only 24 people ever set foot on the moon? It can't have been that interesting then.

Runs faster than the spacecraft thingies to avoid getting shouted at.

Only 24 people ever set foot on the moon? It can't have been that interesting then

@TalkToMeAboutSocialWorkPlease you better run faster than 7 miles per second because we are coming to get you.

Watch the film Hidden Figures about the human computers who did all the calculations manually.

Watch First Man staring Ryan Gosling. Amazing what NASA achieved & what the astronauts did to get to the moon. 3 of them burnt to death testing the capsule & Neil Armstrong almost died testing how to land the lunar module. I've learnt so much over the past week....and I consider myself pretty well educated. Never knew much about all the planning & testing before July 1969. I was only 2 so it pretty much passed me by.

Apollo 13 is good.

We left the planet and landed somewhere else. My head is still blown by that.

But I don't bother watching documentaries or films they don't really interest me much (agree about Apollo 13 though).

So why not just not watch this stuff and just think about the fact that humans stood upright, invented the printing press, engines, flight etc etc and finally left earth and stood on the moon. It is fairly amazing when you think of it.

I also think how amazing when I see planes taking off but I'd rather stick my head in a pipe than watch documentaries about flying. Actually ditto sailing - think of the people who colonised Hawaii - how the hell did they sail across the pacific??? It is fascinating. I am in awe. You won't catch me watching more than one documentary on it.

It’s been one of the biggest achievements in history. I’ve enjoyed all the programmes and would have been happy to see even more coverage (but I’m a space geek).

If you don’t find it interesting there are plenty of other channels to watch so I think YABVU

I got excited cos they had the space centre on the tele. I was there last month.

The tv just doesn’t show the sheer scale of it.

It’s amazing.

I did love Hidden Figures so maybe it’s just the programmes I’ve been watching. And I’m the same about planes pallisers! Had a whole muse to myself last time I was on one, about all of the things humans create.

Only 12 people have walked on the moon, not 24

misses point of thread

Only 12 people have walked on the moon, not 24

My bad, 24 reached moon orbit, only 12 set foot on it, late night...

I find it completely fascinating. The human race put people into space and walked on the moon before we even worked out we needed seatbelts in cars.

This is Katherine Johnson. She could do the kind of maths in her head that some modern mathematicians would struggle to do with a computer. It was her calculations that put the first American in Space, that landed Apollo 11 on the moon and brought them back again, and that enabled Apollo 13 to return home again against the odds.

Man walked on the moon, but it was a black woman from Virginia who put him there, and I think it’s really exciting that there’s an opportunity for us to learn more about the entire mission.

Then don't watch it. Nobody is forcing you

They need to broaden the appeal. Maybe do the next season of Love Island on the moon or something.

The subject itself is infinitely fascinating, but I find the documentaries and news segments you see gloss over a lot of things and dumb stuff down. Maybe that's what makes it seem so tedious?

Also there is a lot of it about at the moment. I love space, and I actually work in that sector, because I love it so much, but even I don't want to watch stuff about the moon landings every single day.

It bores pants off me, too. Never inspired.
Bits and pieces are good scientifically or 'thrilling' , but have added nothing to my life.
And Radio is really dull this week. I'm trying avoid rehash of many stories.

I was listening to a technical programme on radio last night which was more interesting coz they talked about (for instance) all the oxygen in moon dust. But all I could think about was finite energy on Earth that causes so much environmental damage to generate... so much effort to extract energy off our one good planet to pointlessly go live somewhere so unnecessary to be. Irk.

I'd like us to look after the one and only wonderful planet we have here and now. To tackle our truly enormous problems here.

It was an incredible achievement. But do you know what I find intensely frustrating? People that belittle that achievement by saying, “Oh, it was faked. SOOO obvious,” and then prattle on with their little tinfoil hats on like idiots. Those people were immeasurably braver than anything you could think of doing, ever, and miles smarter, too.

Brian Cox was on Postman Pat last week

It was an amazing achievement but I’m not sure it’s been that advantageous to the human race. Nothing there but rocks and ice?

Yanbu. It bores me stiff. I just don't get it.

I think Katherine Johnson is still alive isn’t she Fenella?

Thankfully tv's have an off button. There's been a lot of duplication between channels so I haven't watched it all, but it's been really interesting