It's amazing how little science most people know. When looking at Mars, one should expect to see the canals!
Cotty wrote: > 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!
