Mars will NOT be as Big as the Full Moon on August 27th!

[iceman]

It's that time of year again, when the emails and powerpoint presentations start going around about Mars being as big or as bright as the Full Moon on August 27th. I've received several emails from people asking about it in the last couple of weeks.

It's a hoax and email spam. You can safely ignore and delete it, and don't propogate it by forwarding it onto people :)

Read more at the following article:

Mars will NOT be as Big as the Full Moon on August 27th! (http://www.iceinspace.com.au/63-537-0-0-1-0.html)

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[Lester]

Yes I too have had to explain this to some people again.

Atleast it gets some of the non-astro peoples attention.

[iceman]

True, it's good if it gets them thinking about astronomy. The problem is, when they go outside on August 27th expecting to see something brilliant - they'll be bitterly disappointed :)

Last year I had someone ring me ON that night, wondering where to look :)

[multiweb]

:lol: Won't it? Bummer! Here goes all my chances of taking a decent picture of it. :sadeyes:

[Omaroo]

I even had one idiot I know state that if Mars isn't as big as "promised" on the day that "it would serve to discredit science and scientific method". :screwy:

You have to laugh, don't you? I would, wholeheartedly, if these people weren't serious. Sad.

[h0ughy]

LOL Mike I have had 8 emails, many of the people i replied to we very much novices..... some blonde

[sheeny]

This one's going around again, eh?

Al.

[jjjnettie]

Sigh......
How many people get sucked into this EVERY year?

[Baddad]

Hey Mike and others, :) :hi:

This is unbelievable. I thought it would be well and truly put to rest by now.:eyepop:

How utterly gullible some people can be. :shrug:

Cheers Marty

[stephenb]

again? Struth, some people are gullible. I have already fended of 2 people I know.

[Darth Wader]

I seriously can't believe that people fall for this kind of stuff. Sad.

[NickontheCoast]

For personal safety...I would advise not tackling this in a crowded hotel bar (no it didn;t happen to me), or with any friend who has um..indulged.. it's amazing how strong belief systems become with some lubrication.... :)

We will need our eyes (not blackened) to see the night sky!

As for me, I was starting to build a space bridge in the backyard....

[MartinM]

For the past 6 years a lot of my friends, knowing my interest in astronomy, keep emailing me about this 'amazing' non event. Even though every year I inform them that they are being had, they will not believe me. It apears that you just can not tell some people sometimes.

[DaveGee]

quote
Curiously the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias, as it fell, was, ‘Oh no, not again.’ Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the universe than we do now.
end quote
:rofl:

[Deimos]

That's funny, I've always thought that Mars was about twice as big as the moon! :)
Mars is 3,376km radius versus moon's 1,737km after all.

[Macrob]

Hi Mike and others.

:eyepop:OK I know it's crap but theoretically what would be the implications scientifically for earth? Would we in fact be alive to view it anyway. I'm thinking king king tides, tsunamis, Earth or Mars or Moon or all ripped apart.

Just curious so's we can hit the ignorant masses with some science!! :D

[Robh]

This scenario is possible but not from the Earth. Mars is roughly twice the diameter of the Moon. Any point in space twice as far from Mars as from the Moon will present roughly equal disks. Matching their brightness would be a tough call.
Rob.

[venus]

Maybe they are confusing it with the 'ring nebula' that you showed us at
the shopping centre David;)

[Ric]

In the immortal words of Douglas Adams.

"Oh no, not again"

:lol:

[Gallifreyboy]

I was disappointed it wasn't true. I was looking forward to a whole new range of eclipses. Something about this thread has me singing Pink Floyd....

"The lunatic is on the grass
The lunatic is on the grass
Remembering games and daisy chains and laughs
Got to keep the loonies on the path"

[BLiTZWiNG]

I beg to differ.

In the email, they were both the same size!

[spacezebra]

It was bound to come around again :)

Cheers Petra d.

[Jen]

:lol::lol::lol: me too they wanted to come around my place that weekend to look through my scope :lol::lol: I havnt recieved this email this year yet :)

[mozzie]

:rofl:when the full moon is up in august put a couple of moon filters on to darken and a nice deep red thet should darken it and change the moons color :lol:then place them up to the eyepiece and show them that mars is as big as the moon :rolleyes:then they wont be dissapointed :D.
just making a funny some people cant be told and its hard to explain that it wont :shrug:
mozzie

[Jen]

:lol::lol::lol:

[Chillie]

The only email I got about this was from the owner of this site.:shrug::whistle:

[Glenhuon]

This was included with my reply to this email back in 2005 :)

Bill

[spacezebra]

:lol:

Cheers Petra d.

[iceman]

haha nice Bill.

[Jen]

:lol::lol::lol: lol Bill :thumbsup:

[Ric]

That's a classic Bill, well done.

Cheers

[troypiggo]

Just a day and a half after I saw this post, I received the chain letter/email/hoax from a friend. Unreal. Sent email back to him saying it's a hoax etc, linked some websites, and asked him to pass it on back up the line to whoever sent it to him. Hopefully some people will get educated about it. At least he was.

[Geoff45]

Well, as was said in the Astrology vs Astronomy thread, you should keep an open mind :camera:. After all, what do these scientists really know and what are they keeping hidden from us?
Geoff

[tonycynic]

Reminds me of an article in the herald sun a few years ago telling us about the up coming eclipse with all the usual warnings about not looking directly at it because it will be so bright. Pity it was a lunar eclipse.:screwy: