{"id":19658,"date":"2013-05-08T21:58:09","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T21:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/?p=19658"},"modified":"2013-05-08T21:58:09","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T21:58:09","slug":"day-128-the-unimpressive-moon-landing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/2013\/05\/08\/day-128-the-unimpressive-moon-landing\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 128: The Unimpressive Moon Landing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today at work was good overall. We have constant issues with ICT over in our little hut, and teaching it is always a little daunting. However, opening one file from the shared server on each of 22 laptops really shouldn’t have been the utter chore it turned out to be. The task I had given then was a fairly simple one – create a newspaper report highlighting the awe and wonder the first moon landing<\/a> in 1969 created for people. A few video clips from the BBC<\/a> and other news providers showed how people around the world reacted to the events. I was also able to show them the horribly grainy footage of the event itself while explaining the reason for the poor quality – it’s very hard for children living in a 3D HD TV world to imagine a tiny, black and white 650 line image being the only source available for such an event. Seeing it in that way actually doesn’t create any kind of awe and wonder – it’s not impressive. If anything, it detracts from the brilliance for a modern audience I feel.<\/p>\n

They are a brilliant group to work with in this topic – they are all fully\u00a0engaged\u00a0and interested in it. Most of them wonder why we don’t visit the Moon<\/a> now and explaining that actually, we don’t need to at this moment, is really difficult. Particularly when, personally, I would love to see people on there in my life time. I can’t imagine the thrill of something happening that has never happened before, something so momentous that will be looked back on for centuries to come.<\/p>\n

I digress, the point is that, unlike Armstrong who apparently stayed utterly calm when landing on the Moon<\/a> (see the links below), my afternoon was fairly stressful.<\/p>\n

Tonight has been full of reports and The Apprentice<\/em>. Getting more into it than last night, but I always find the first few episodes hard to watch as 16 people is just too many to follow easily.<\/p>\n

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