[OT] The Summer of Mars

[Shadowdancer]

On Aug. 27, 2003, Mars will be less than 34.65 million miles (55.76 million kilometers) away -- closer to our planet than it’s been in nearly 60,000 years. The view will be stupendous.

Track Mars’ growing brightness with at SPACE.com. The link

 

[Argent Silvermage]

Oh great! This is perfect invasion distance. We're hosed.

Momma! Git my guns oiled. the Martians is attackin!

 

[WayneLigon]

No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. ... And looking across space with instruments, and intelligences such as we have scarcely dreamed of, they see, at its nearest distance only 35,000,000 of miles sunward ofthem, a morning star of hope, our own warmer planet, green with vegetation and grey with water, with a cloudy atmosphere eloquent of fertility, with glimpses through its drifting cloud wisps of broad stretches of populous country and narrow, navy-crowded seas.

Yep. hosed. The tripods will be here any day now.

 

[Argent Silvermage]

*Argent hides behind Wayne.*

 

[thedangerranger]

*Feverishly downloading Slim Whitman MP3s*

 

[Ranes]

Calm yourselves. We mean you no harm. We only wish to participate in your conventions.

 

[Argent Silvermage]

*Feverishly downloading Slim Whitman MP3's*

I am calling youoooOOOooo! LOL

 

[GamerMan12]

It is the winter, when Mars will be really interesting ,that is when
4 space probes (2 from USA, 1 from Europe and 1 from Japan) will land or orbit. I think the first is on Xmas day and the others in January.

So it is a case of us invading Mars!!

GamerMan12

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Calm yourselves. We mean you no harm. We only wish to participate in your conventions.

You didn't get the memo? We changed the plans. We DO want to invade...well, the conventions at least, but its called an invasion now.

 

[Shadowdancer]

Calm yourselves. We mean you no harm. We only wish to participate in your conventions.

If you didn't preregister, you're going to have to wait in lines. For. A. Long. Long. Time.