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Planet Saturn Closest In 30 Years

Posted by michael on from the sprinkled-moondust-in-your-hair dept.

maliabu writes "Saturn will be coming to opposition (opposite the Sun in relation to Earth) on New Year's Eve. More details here. And of course a dedicated website Celestron Saturn Opposition 2003 too."

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  1. It's the END OF THE EARTH by Jerf · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes, I know this has happened millions upon millions of times before, but this time it's the END OF THE EARTH FOR SURE! Stock up on your survival gear! Soon the planet will be torn asunder by gravitational resonance and Planet X will eat up the remainder of our planet in a fiesta of electromagnetic quantum something-or-other!

    What's different about this opposition? Why, that I'm aware of it of course!

    BEWARE!

  2. Troll? TROLL? by Jerf · · Score: 1, Funny

    To the moderator who modded my previous message as a troll: I envy your lack of exposure to loons who really believe various cosmic events that have happening millions of times signal the end of existance as we know it, but that's what we call a "satirization" of those loons. The first sentence, not to mention the second paragraph, should have been the giveaway. (Not to mention "something-or-other!".)

    Please turn in your mod points at the nearest recycling facility.