August 24
...serving up your daily dish.
There is a Mars e-mail hoax circulating. As far as we know, it's not designed to annihilate your computer. Its evil ploy is to get you to stare at the night sky in search of a spectacular Mars sighting. The Dreyfuss Planetarium offers a warning about this red planet ruse:
Recently an e-mail has been circulating that claims Mars will be spectacular in late August. Not only is the e-mail full of errors and exaggerations, it is two years out of date! However, there will be a very, very nice appearance of Mars in late October and early November 2005. It will be bright and easy to find in the east soon after sunset. The Dreyfuss Planetarium will be presenting a show and a Mars viewing event this fall to celebrate this impressive return of the red planet.
For more info about the planetarium (currently closed for maintenance through Sept. 16), click here.
August 24, 2005 in Seen in Cyberspace | Permalink
"Ack, ack ACK ack, ACK ACK ACK!"....In the words of the immortal Martian bard.
Posted by: PACKZ | Aug 24, 2005 2:55:37 PM
Who gets their kicks out of posting an otherwise interesting tidbit as a hoax? Are those zany astrophysics graduate students at it again? More likely, someone Googled something or another and found the two-year old article and thought it would be a swell idea to tell all their friends, and the circle began. I got that e-mail a month or so ago and sent it out to several friends. Oh, well, maybe the Meteor Showers will be going on and they will at least see something interesting.
Posted by: conan the grammarian | Aug 25, 2005 8:02:12 AM
We can only hope they'll spot the rockets lifting off from the Red Planet. On second thought, having advance warning will probably do us little good.
Posted by: Chris | Aug 25, 2005 9:50:37 PM
Crap, another case of my posting without bothering to reread the lead-in ... and coming up with similar attempts at humor. Think I'm gonna hang it up now.
Posted by: Chris | Aug 25, 2005 9:57:40 PM
well, at least we'll see it in late october-early november....as THIS web site says!!!!
Posted by: Alicia | Aug 27, 2005 10:34:39 AM
I HATE WHEN THIS HAPPENS! I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE HOW MANY OF MY ADDRESSEES WASTED THEIR TIME, TOO. SO SAD!!!!
Posted by: BLT | Aug 27, 2005 7:49:06 PM
all i can say is my mother who is in a cabin in the colorado mts. says she see a beautiful Mars(large, red and moonlike) and it isn't the moon because it is a new moon (according to this mom)! (Aug 26 and 27)
Posted by: Lori | Aug 27, 2005 11:45:32 PM
