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Close Encounters Of The Mars Kind

Posted by timothy on from the bask-in-its-warlike-glow dept.

Lab_rat0 writes "Never again in our lifetimes will the Red Planet be so spectacular! This month and next, Earth is catching up with Mars, an encounter that will culminate in the closest approach between the two planets in recorded history. This article at EliteGeek has more details. According to Agg over at OCAU, this is probably the reason for all the Mars probes launched over the last few months."

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  1. Never again in our lifetimes? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Speak for yourself. I plan to live to at least 150,000 years of age. I'm sure I'll see better.

  2. Why go to Mars? by Hackie_Chan · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why go to Mars when you've got Rekall?

    >... and about those lobotomies, statistics show that it's safer to use Rekall than to travel to the red planet itself.

    I'm delightfully interested in that Agent-package... Hmm...

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  3. Re:Obligatory Zubrin post... by EverDense · · Score: 5, Funny

    now would be a very good time to put some of the principlesinto practise and land someone on Mars!

    Preferably someone that I don't like.
    Preferably without a space suit.

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