How Can We Move To The Moon?

Teach Me A Lesson with Greg James and Bella Mackie

BBC

Education

4.8 • 957 Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Greg James and Bella Mackie didn’t pay much attention at school. So they’re asking Britain’s most inspiring teachers to show them what they missed in this series of fascinating and fun lessons.

This week it's physics with Mr Hardie, who takes Greg and Bella through the science we need to understand in order to establish a human colony on the moon. You'll also find out how many seconds of fuel Neil Armstrong had left when he landed on the moon, how much it costs per kilo to send something there, and how rich we would all be if we shared a mineral-rich asteroid.

Bad students of all ages are welcome. Expect brilliant teachers, captivating subjects but absolutely no homework.

Get in touch with your funny school stories and teacher recommendations - email us at teachme@bbc.co.uk

Transcript

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:05.0	By the end of this podcast, we're going to answer the question,
0:08.0	how can we move to the moon?
0:10.0	Well, this is a very good question for you because you are obsessed with the moon.
0:13.0	I bloody love the moon.
0:16.0	Like too much, I think.
0:18.0	Teach me a lesson.
0:22.0	Teach me a lesson.
0:23.0	This is Greg James and that.
0:28.0	I'm Bella Mackie.
0:29.0	And welcome to Teach Me a lesson.
0:31.0	We get a different lesson from a different teacher every week
0:34.3	so that we can learn things that we feel like we should have learned at school but we probably
0:38.5	weren't concentrating very well. Yeah and also we've realized that we're better at
0:41.9	learning now we're a bit older and we realize that the clock is ticking and we'll be dead soon,
0:47.2	so we want to get as much into our brains as possible.
0:51.6	Today's lesson is physics. Were you a fan of it at school? All I really remember about
0:57.1	physics is that I failed my mock GCSC physics exam getting 0% and you might think how can you get naught
1:04.6	percent in a physics exam and I would say well you'd naturally assume that I just
1:09.0	didn't do anything except that I answered every question I just made up
1:12.4	equations I just made everything up and got 0%.
1:15.2	This doesn't bode well. Our teacher today is Mr Hardy. He's a physics and math teacher in Edinburgh.
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