Should Red Bull run the European Space Agency?

[wuthton]

In 2012 I watched Felix Baumgartner's record breaking skydive from the edge of space.

The internet live stream mainly consisted of Felix sat in a seat for a few hours, it could have been dull as ditch-water. But the coverage was excellent, it was interesting, exciting and educational.... I was glued to it.

Now on to yesterday, I fired up the computer to watch the Rosetta coverage. I'd secured a quiet hour at work, I was looking forward to it.

I turned it off after 30 minutes and went back to work. I intended to go back to it later but I didn't have time, I don't think I missed much.

I can't help thinking that if Rosetta had "Red Bull" scrawled down the side of it the coverage would of been much better, more inspiring. There may have even been a few more young eyes looking towards the stars last night. In the end it was dull, it should have and could have been exciting but no, it was dull.

[JamesF]

Perhaps the ESA should employ the same television production team as Red Bull.  Maybe if space exploration "made good television" it wouldn't have so much trouble getting funding.

James

[AllanJ]

Rosetta goes faster than Sebastian Vettels's or (especially!) Daniel Ricciardo's Red Bull F1 cars, but the lap time is a bit too lengthy to sustain interest for many folks

[wuthton]

Rosetta goes faster than Sebastian Vettels's or (especially!) Daniel Ricciardo's Red Bull F1 cars, but the lap time is a bit too lengthy to sustain interest for many folks

I enjoy F1 very much but with some thought to production and presentation, Rosetta intercepting and orbiting a comet in the darkest depths of space could be way more exciting than cars driving round in circles.

[Laurie61]

The esa coverage improved after they had finished with the top brass although the link was lagging at times, I had hoped one of the 24hr news prog's would do a live coverage but just pre taped stuff from what I could see.