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

[BLiTZWiNG (Trent)]

I beg to differ.

In the email, they were both the same size!

[spacezebra (Petra)]

It was bound to come around again

Cheers Petra d.

[Jen]

Originally Posted by 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.

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

[mozzie (Peter)]

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 then place them up to the eyepiece and show them that mars is as big as the moon then they wont be dissapointed .
just making a funny some people cant be told and its hard to explain that it wont
mozzie

[Jen]

Originally Posted by mozzie

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 then place them up to the eyepiece and show them that mars is as big as the moon then they wont be dissapointed .
just making a funny some people cant be told and its hard to explain that it wont
mozzie

[Chillie (Henry)]

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

[Glenhuon (Bill)]

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

Bill

[spacezebra (Petra)]

Cheers Petra d.

[iceman (Mike)]

haha nice Bill.

[Jen]

Originally Posted by Glenhuon

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

Bill

lol Bill

[Ric]

That's a classic Bill, well done.

Cheers

[troypiggo (Troy)]

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 (Geoff)]

Well, as was said in the Astrology vs Astronomy thread, you should keep an open mind . 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.