Sounds like the USA doesn't have a monopoly on ignorant reporters. Bill
-----Original Message----- From: Cotty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 2:39 PM To: Pentax List Subject: Re: Mars I must tell you this. I was listening to the radio while on manoevres driving around central London today, and this business of Mars being at it's closest to Earth for millenia etc is a right old occasion for the 'space experts' to be wheeled out and spout off loads a sheeeeeyite about planet-watching etc etc. Anyway, a commercail radio station that shall remain nameless (but was in fact Jazz FM - which actually is brilliant and my fav in London) uses a generic Independent Radio News (IRN) bulletin material source for things like this. Up pops this woman who clearly was just bobbling along about where to look in the sky etc etc and she says something like this: "...yes and it will be perfectly visible with the naked eye, and if you have access to a telescope you might even be able to make out things like dust storms and the big red spot - " I laughed so hard I nearly shunted a black cab into the middle of next week! Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=====| www.macads.co.uk/snaps _____________________________ Free UK Mac Ads www.macads.co.uk
