On Wednesday 22 Jun 2005 05:01, ken barber wrote:
>  if this is true, this is probably worth seeing.
>

Hi Ken,

It was (*partly) true 2 years ago!!! See:-

<http://www.snopes.com/science/mars.asp>

Cheers

Deri

*The full sentence is "At a modest 75-power magnification Mars will look as
large as the full moon to the naked eye." So it is really saying Mars will
only look 75 times smaller than the moon.