Do we really need the Moon? BBC2 9:00

[Ptarmigan]

Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock

Arrrrgg BBC 4 !!!!!!!!!!!

[nightfisher]

Hope you dont mind, you did a double post so i deleted one..............and yes we do need the Moon, if it were not there i would have even less to look at

[Ptarmigan]

I wondered where it had gone !

can you edit my title for me ? cos it wasnt a double post !

[jamespels]

'course we need the moon - what else would blank out the sky on the few cloudless nights???

More seriously, I saw this programme a year or so ago and it is very good. Dr Aderin-Pocock presents it wonderfully and it turns out the reasons we need the moon are much more varied than I would have guessed!

[Ptarmigan]

and it is very good. Dr Aderin-Pocock presents it wonderfully and it turns out the reasons we need the moon are much more varied than I would have guessed!

So far so good, me too !

but I wish she hadnt said " so called dark side", no need for that old ####

[ghostdance]

Good programme.....AND they played Fireball! Ah me, what a ship she was

[Ptarmigan]

Very interesting

first time I have seen her given her own time and space,

much better than when she is squeezed into sound bytes in Sky@Night.

I was thinking " are those American quadrillians or Imperial",

when she read my mind and answered "a really big number " LOL !

Shame about the ginormous microwave cooker beam at the end, bringing our annual energy consumption back to earth, good way to BBQ some bangers ! Never mind trying to keep it focussed and not boil the oceans etc&etc

[MattGoo]

Missed it, might have to see if it's available on iPlayer.