We Need The Mars Hoax... The Universe Just Ain't Exciting Enough

June 10, 2009

I've never received the fabled Mars Hoax Email. Sad, but true.

I find this strange, as I regularly receive emotional pleads for banking information from Nigerian princes, why wouldn't the Mars Hoax Email (or MHE) make it to my inbox? I receive just about every other chain email, why would this one slip through the net? I feel cheated.

"For the sixth year in a row, a message about the Red Planet is popping up in email boxes around the world. It instructs readers to go outside after dark on August 27th and behold the sky. "Mars will look as large as the full moon," it says. "No one alive today will ever see this again." --NASA

Oh well, doesn't look as if I'm missing out on anything. A hopelessly flawed hoax... we all know Mars can't look as big as the full moon. Please. It's Pluto you want to watch out for:

Sorry, couldn't resist.

For more on the fun and games surrounding the MHE (pronounced "meh," as in "meh, whatever"), have a read of the Bad Astronomer's exacerbated words. Also, check out NASA's lengthy response as to why you shouldn't pay any attention to the Mars Hoax this year, or any other year for the next few decades.

Comments

[Nyree]

Huh, I had no idea this existed but now that I do, I'm totally gonna keep a look out for it. C'mon! Let me be one of the lucky ones!.....hee hee!