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- sundancekid503, on 12/18/2007, -2/+38A few bottle rockets, a remote control truck, and if my calculations are correct the homemade "rover" I built will touching down on the surface of Mars tonight. Wish me luck.
- waterdrop, on 12/18/2007, -3/+24We shall plan a Mars trip for 2016.
- kurtwinter, on 12/18/2007, -0/+20Silly. We all know the world ends in 2012.
- badwithcomputer, on 12/18/2007, -0/+19anyone else impressed this made the front page while the 'toninght' part was still relevant? i would hate to be reading this in the middle of the night or tomorrow morning...
- lukas88, on 12/18/2007, -1/+20Hmmm I thought mars looked a little bit closer, I could almost hear the martians laughing at us and our problems. *****.
- EvanVolm, on 12/18/2007, -0/+16I KNEW something was up. About two nights ago I saw Mars and it looked much brighter than usual. I'll probably have to set up my tripod and telescope to get a few pictures(if I can bare the cold). Thanks for the heads up.
- DeadFox1, on 12/18/2007, -0/+12your post title hurts my teeth.
- UnterDenLinden, on 12/18/2007, -6/+18Buried as inaccurate, it will be as large as the full moon next August. Anyone with e-mail knows that.
- greenlight2001, on 12/18/2007, -0/+11I made the kool-aid! Everybody get your shoes on!
- weiwuwei, on 12/18/2007, -1/+11Thanks for posting this; I'll be out there looking east for Mars tonight!
- raceit, on 12/18/2007, -1/+11I bet there is a version of Digg on Mars that was just posted with info about how Earth will be closest tonight until 2016.
- centran, on 12/18/2007, -1/+11Hey!
You guys get to see a lot more eclipses then we do so shut up and let us have our mars viewing. - russianmike, on 12/18/2007, -1/+10At $3 a gallon, it makes little difference.
- ferric84, on 12/18/2007, -0/+7i was waiting to read "mars will be as big as the moon for the first time in..." blah blah blah
- Zeonix, on 12/18/2007, -1/+8See the .ca? Yeah, that means Canada. You know, the part of North America the USA doesn't control? Yeah, that giant part. It's amazing how people can turn anything into something about Americans being ignorant or selfish.
- nallelcm, on 12/18/2007, -4/+10Americans only know about 2 groups of people... Themselves and the people they are at war with.
- queenofgossip, on 12/18/2007, -0/+6Awesome! Thanks, I'll be watching ;)
- Paranoidmarvin, on 12/18/2007, -0/+6If you are in the UK, look in the constellation of Gemini, to the East. It's good after about 6pm.
It should be in the same place for the rest of the world, but at different times - jonohull, on 12/18/2007, -0/+6I would like to, but the lights are always too bright in the city.
- MrThirsty, on 12/18/2007, -0/+5Amen
- Recoil, on 12/18/2007, -5/+10Any forecast for those of us who DON'T live in USA? Last time I heared that was a pretty large percentage of the world's population...
- swab, on 12/18/2007, -0/+4I can confirm mars is looking great from Scotland right now!
- digjam, on 12/18/2007, -0/+4I bet most ppl wont even know that they are NOT looking at mars rather some bright star!
- Dokument, on 12/18/2007, -1/+5Not THAT close.
- sittered, on 12/18/2007, -0/+4I'm going tonight.
- BluesFan, on 12/19/2007, -0/+3Lets launch something at it.....like Bush and Cheney!
- socomoddjob, on 12/18/2007, -0/+3I noticed probably about 4 days ago, was wondering what was up with the bright orange star.
- scottmeves, on 12/18/2007, -0/+3If you want to see a real-time distance calculator for mars, (doesn't work in safari though) you can check out http://www.physics.emory.edu/astronomy/mars/calc.h ...
- forzaruler, on 12/18/2007, -0/+3*****, it's raining here.
- xdeliriumx, on 12/18/2007, -0/+3god damn it. i cant believe people still buy into this stuff every month. thank you unterdenlinden
- belly917, on 12/18/2007, -0/+3I don't know what you intentions were by providing this link, but the last paragraph on that page confirms the original article
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"Mars' next close approach to Earth will occur in December 2007, but even then it will still be about 55 million miles away from us, not nearly as close as it was in 2003 or 2005." - diktator279, on 12/19/2007, -0/+3Its that big red light in the sky, right? the one that changes green every once in a while?
- Paranoidmarvin, on 12/18/2007, -0/+3Hmm, it was closer in 2003, if I recall correctly.
I actually managed to grab a quick glance of the ice caps on a very still night through my telescope. - IMnotCIA, on 12/19/2007, -0/+2Buried as inaccurate, the world ends in 2012.
- TubbyCat, on 12/19/2007, -1/+3WOW you are amazing.
- inactive, on 12/18/2007, -0/+2nice, i will check it out, thanks
- UnterDenLinden, on 12/18/2007, -0/+2Hey, uh, I was joking.....
- speedk0re, on 12/18/2007, -0/+2nice rant... wrong thread
- Humptydank, on 12/18/2007, -0/+2You should just be able to see Mars. I live in New York City with a view East and I can usually pick it out.
I wouldn't build an observatory here, but... - redxxx, on 12/19/2007, -0/+2Yes, it is just that. Funny. If you cherry pick predictions(from the many tens of thousands out there) you can find ones that come reasonably close to coinciding. Kinda funny. Kinda neat. But it doesn't mean anything.
- nallelcm, on 12/18/2007, -1/+3i thought macs 'just work'
- cambob76, on 12/18/2007, -0/+2"Mars Closer To Earth Tonight Than Until 2016" - no! How about : "Mars Now at its Closest Distance to Earth until 2016"
- zombiedepot, on 12/18/2007, -0/+2I dub thee Sir Phobos, Knight of Mars, beater of ass.
- Bob042, on 12/18/2007, -1/+3No, it's true that Mars will be (relatively) close to the Earth, the hoax is the one going around saying that it will appear bigger than the moon to the unaided eye. Close means tens of millions of miles still.
- accessviolation, on 12/19/2007, -0/+2I, for one, welcome our new Quetzalcoatl overlord.
- xike, on 12/19/2007, -0/+2Engrish ftw!
- had3l, on 12/18/2007, -0/+2Yeah, I saw it yesterday at like 4am. I was wondering what was that damn star shining so bright. Now I know it wasn't a star at all, *chuckles*
- ItsMyWii, on 12/19/2007, -0/+2I wanna see a pic of this on digg tomorrow.
- Veni_Vidi_Vici, on 12/18/2007, -0/+2Of course. It's due to the y2k12 bug.
- inactive, on 12/18/2007, -0/+2I have been checking it out every night. It is HUGE up here in Montana. Really cool stuff.
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