Be on the lookout for incoming cylinders...

But...

"The chances of anything coming from Mars are a...."

Invictus always gets an auto-pop from me

Whew, I was about to point out that the info was wrong and Invectus was referring to the Closest approach event that happened in August of 2003 which then became a common hoax chain email - Thankfully I double checked his source site and found that I frealized I was wrong!

I'd been sent that stupid email so many times and debunking it that I forgot this year was an actual close approach. Thanks for the reminder!

Fascinating.

Me, too, Oort. I've even got an email in my draft to use when it comes around again

Mars looked close and bright last night, too.

The Bad Astronomer has a little blurb on it as well.

Boo...it's cloudy. I've missed nearly every sky event this year!