Mars passing closer to Earth than in all recorded history

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We don't have a category for "celestial events", do we?

Anyway, I got forwarded an email this morning like what is suggested in the following article, did some research because I didn't believe it, and it turns out that it's still going to be pretty friggin cool, albeit not AS LARGE IN THE NIGHT SKY AS THE MOON.

http://www.universetoday.com/am/publish/beware_mars_haox.html?872005

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 28 July 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)

http://www.chocolate.org/choclove/mars-bar.gif

Also: image googling for "mars bar" turns up one very interesting, very nsfw result, among others.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 28 July 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

Watching the sky for that glorious crimson beast!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 28 July 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0767821610.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― andy --, Thursday, 28 July 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

Does Venus have water? Because I'm seriously thinking of moving there.

― Land Ho! (dymaxia), Thursday, 28 July 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

i think this event already happened in 2003. i'm pretty sure.

― ai lien (kold_krush), Thursday, 28 July 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

I saw a hyperbolic e-mail like the one you're talking about posted to a wall in the church that I play gigs at. I didn't really believe it, because, you know, everything else on the walls seemed pretty farfetched too.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 28 July 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

It's close but not as close as it was a few years ago.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 28 July 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

D'oh! This will go down in the list of thread-titles-I-most-regret alongside "this is what it sounds like when doves cry".

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 28 July 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

Nick, wait about 50,000 years and you can revive the thread!

― Tinman: Set to Self-Destruct (cprek), Thursday, 28 July 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

I got the same email, and didn't believe it either. But thanks for the link!

― pepektheassassin (pepektheassassin), Thursday, 28 July 2005 21:23 (twenty years ago)

There does seem to be an unusual amount of aggression in the air.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Thursday, 28 July 2005 21:24 (twenty years ago)

I saw a near fist-fight at a felafel stand today. (Not really that near, but "If I didn't have a broken foot I'd knock you out," "You're just a coward that's all. Go ahead and hit me." Etc.) And a homeless man with one lens in his glasses allegedly assaulted a patron at the library today.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Thursday, 28 July 2005 21:26 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://things.magick.cz/pohlednice/esoterika/mars.jpg

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Thursday, 28 July 2005 21:30 (twenty years ago)

http://things.magick.cz/pohlednice/esoterika/mars.jpg

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Thursday, 28 July 2005 21:31 (twenty years ago)

I took this of it two years ago on 3x zoom out of my window. Amazed me.

http://www.kmwatson.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/mars.jpg

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 28 July 2005 21:41 (twenty years ago)

Marianne Faithfull's accusers say: Mars is the God of Woaarrgh

― moley, Thursday, 28 July 2005 21:43 (twenty years ago)

x post times five...

it has been strange strange strange the past coupla days for me, eerie things have happened, like major stupid accidents and dumb coincidences that make me shudder. is this the work of a closer mars?

― ai lien (kold_krush), Thursday, 28 July 2005 22:02 (twenty years ago)

mar s sucks. there's no fun to be had there

― Mike Hanle y 3000 (hanle y 3000), Friday, 29 July 2005 03:21 (twenty years ago)

It ain't the kinda place to raise your kids

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Friday, 29 July 2005 03:47 (twenty years ago)

In fact it's cold as hell.

― nickn (nickn), Friday, 29 July 2005 05:57 (twenty years ago)

Tell me, what are the chances of anything coming from Mars?

― The Jaguar Who Sleeps At The Centre Of The World. (Mikey Bidness), Friday, 29 July 2005 06:14 (twenty years ago)

Mars needs guitars.

Apparently.

― Masonic Boom (kate), Friday, 29 July 2005 06:28 (twenty years ago)

By the time you finish reading this sentence, you'll be 25 miles closer to the planet Mars.

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 29 July 2005 07:50 (twenty years ago)

Says Nasa

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 29 July 2005 07:51 (twenty years ago)

Back at the 2003 close approach I hung out with the LA Astronomical Society and drew this picture of Mars while I was looking through one of the 24" reflectors they had set up on Mt. Pinos.

http://www.quartzcity.net/~chris/blogpicts/mars2003.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 29 July 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

in the paper today, there's a picture of a patch of ice near mars' north pole taken by the mars express probe and realeased by the european space agency. euh?

― ai lien (kold_krush), Friday, 29 July 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

http://zettesworld.com/hdz04b/images/ambphibians/tomato%20frog102303.jpg
"we salute you people of ilx"

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 29 July 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)

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