Okay so there’s this crazy rumour going around that Mars is going to be the size of the moon this month. That’s right, the moon, or, roughly the size of Oprah’s ass.
Let’s just think about that. Now i’m no expert on planetary alignment but if Mars is going to be that big, shouldn’t we be seeing it gradually increasing in size? How fast must this planet move to suddenly be that size in the sky? Unless of course it’s planning a surprise maybe. Maybe it’ll just hide behind Jupiter, and then BANG. Surprise!!! Geez, if that is the case I hope it doesn’t miss and take out half of Earth by mistake.
Mars: Surprise!!!
Earth people: Arrrrghhhhh, I’m melting
Mars: Woops
George W: It seems as a people we have misunderestimated the ability of Al-Qaeda. This is clearly the work of Extremist Muslims in an effort to hurt the people of America. We’re currently looking for member of Al-Qaeda that might have stolen NASA shuttles to re-direct Mars’ course. The war on terror continues. Good for us Al-Qaeda seems to have missed the U.S and actually taken out the middle east.
Tom Tancredo: Let’s bomb Mecca, oh, there’s no more Mecca? Let’s make some Samoosas then.
CNN: Breaking news today, large volumes of oil have been discovered on Mars…
Generally, I’d consider myself a believer. I don’t think I believe this time…
Peace outty
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12 Responses to Mars as big as the moon
Woah Mr. Ignorant!! There’s no way in Al-Qaeda hell that Mars will ever be that close to the earth to be equall in size to the moon! It’s true that Mars is very close to the earth (closest in 60 000 years)and will be closest on the 28th August at around midnight. It’s luminosity will be 3rd brightest in the sky behind Venus and the moon, but it’ll certainly not be close in size to the moon. Mars will appear more than six times larger and shine some 85 times brighter than it normally does.
Shine on…
Ooh… check out Bill Nuy the science guy over here…
Who you calling Mr. Ignorant punk?!?!?!?
The winner is… Dale! Phil there has got an interesting mix of fact and fiction going. Mars was at it’s closest in 60,000 years back in August of 2003. Mars will be at its closest to Earth for the 2005 opposition on Oct. 30, but not as close as it was in 2003. Check out my web site for more.
Looks like the URL for my blog didn’t get published with my comment. It’s: http://starry-starry-nights.blogspot.com/
Hey hey! what do you know..there’s a real Bill Nuy around :)
Nice site name Dave… Except I’ve got the freggan song stuck in my head now.. The NOFX one anyways..
Repsec Dave. You sure showed Phil ;)
Nice site, white on black is always so much neater and easier on the eyes.
you’re fired dale
Err, Dave you don’t need a writer do you?
HAHAHAAAAAAAA!!! I suck at astronomy! but whatever! the point is mars won’t be as big as the MOON!! EVER!! Um.. from our position on the earth that is! Sorry for the late reply…i was struggling to make out wat was written in the grey on grey! ;))
I bought myself this big-ass frikin telescope for the party on the 27th when we were gona have this big Mars floating in da sky… So I pitch up at my buddie’s house telescope mounted on a trailer ‘coz it’s too big to fit in my car… So we go ahead and have a few beers whilst we wait for the sun to set… Next minute we hear thunder and lightning and five seconds later the whole town is unda water and we didn’t get to see sh*t!!! ARGH!!!! I still got the telescope tho, anyone interested?? I’ll throw in the trailer for free :-)
Haha. That sucks. I had difficulty last nite identifying which was the 3rd brightest luminary anyways. So no worries.
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