mars will be really close to earth

mars will be really close to earth

i heard its gonna be on aug 27 at 12.30 am anyone gonna actually try and see it? its supposed to be as big as the moon and be right around beside it... and i think the next time its supposed to happen is in like year 2286 i think...

nahhh, I'll see it next time around

j/k

ill try to see it, and i though i read somewhere they said it starts at 10?

someone should take pictures

I'll be taking pictures hopefully (if I see it), with my luck, the sky will be overcast all night, heh

Ignore that e-mail. The Red Planet isn't coming.

look what i found......so its not coming..

http://www.detnews.com/2005/technology/0508/15/0tech-277112.htm

Hahaha... thought it was too spectacular to be true...

man, i wanna see something too...

I knew it was a hoax because if mars was as big as the moon there would be massive panic and hesteria

no shit!

....and besides that, you have to kno that it takes bout 6 months to reach mars and only a few days for the moon.....earth is around 7,926 miles in diameter....the moon is 1/4 of that....mars is a little over half of that of the earths at like 4,200, i dont remember exactly....so its just not probable....mars would definately have to be much closer to see and if at any point it was close enough to become as visibly large as the moon, im sure there would be some pretty bad gravitational forces....i mean consider the moon only has 0.07G's and mars has 0.38G's and the moon has enough gravitational pull to effect tides so i wouldnt wanna even imagine what mars could do...i love astronomy so i was really hoping that this wasnt a hoax but its just too good to be true...

Yeah I remember in '03 you could see mars low in the horizon up here. It looked like a bright star.

aw man... i was hoping to see something... damn it man...

you can always look at the stars...

Stars? Where?

actually, i dont see that many... one or two would be the usual... coz i live in the city... everything is sooo bright even at night... headlights are pointless...

I was going to say, didn't this happen like two years ago? LOL

i sometimes see alota stars at night, cuz i live closer to the mountains and all.

and last night i took a peep outside, and saw a half full moon, it was bbbright

Uh, yeah. What he said.

That's the only thing I miss about New Hampshire...the stars. On a clear night I coule see the moons of Jupiter with a basic telescope.

But overall....it just doesn't seem probable when you really think about it. I mean, look at it in a practical sense...if the MOON moves a couple of feet in any direction, the results on the ocean tides are catastrophic, and now they bring up the idea of a planet moving thousands (millions even?) of miles towards the Earth? If that were to actually happen, does anyone even think we would be alive to see it? :superconf

^^^ agreed. it would end up one of those Day After Tomorrow type of situations. mass hysteria, death everywhere. survivors would be minimal, at best.


...but i'm sure the roaches and rats would appreciate the view.