Two Moons Morons

It always astounds me just how ignorant people can really be. The latest is the Facebook event (yes, I know, the fact that its a Facebook event says a lot to start with) that I've gotten notice of some of my contacts signing on to 'attend' over the past few days. Its called "TWO MOONS, AUGUST 27th 2007" (remember, to gain credibility, its always important to capitalize the entire title of your e-mail/group/event/etc). The idea is that, at 12:30, apparently Mars is gonna strap on some booster rockets and fly in so close that it looks the same size as our moon, and then its gonna be gone way out to its normal home again.

Two moons on 27 August*



August 27th the Whole World is waiting for.........

Planet Mars will be the brightest in the night sky

starting August.



It will look as large as the full moon to the naked

eye. This will cultivate on August 27 when Mars comes

within 34.65M miles of earth. Be sure to watch the sky

on August 27 12:30 am . It will look like the earth

has 2 moons. The next time Mars may come this close is

in 2287.



Share this with your friends as NO ONE ALIVE TODAY

will ever see it again.

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During this time it will also apparently cultivate? Perhaps some new martian corn will be sown and be the new cost effective source for ethanol?

It blows my mind that people think a planet, visible in the night sky on most given nights, is miraculously going to swoop in, for a one hour viewing event and then be gone again. Mars is roughly twice the diameter of our moon, so even if somehow physically possible, it would have to come in to around the twice the distance away as our moon, which on average is about 385 000 km. Of course the claim above is some 34 650 000 miles which is about 55 760 000 km, which is actually the accurate distance for when Mars and Earth are at their closest. At that distance, it would take 70-75x magnification to be the same size as the moon (55760000 km / 2 * 385000km).

And fear not, because a quick check in one of my books infact tells me that these close approaches occur every 25 to 30 years, so there is no need to forsake your firstborn child or something for the sake of seeing this miraculous 'cultivation'.

Its downright scary to think how uncritical people can be, though in retrospect not as much surprising in the realm of Facebook and all its other retarded new 'features'. Maybe we should just invite those Martians in anyways, idiots like us surely don't deserve sole use of our atmosphere. I bet they could write a really killer 'Zombie' Facebook app too!