Saw a claim on facebook that Mars would be the same size as the Moon one night this week. It even included a picture showing what it would look like.
Complete and utter bollocks, of course. It's going to be a bigger and brighter red dot than usual. Still cool.
Bollocks, indeed.
I know Mars has much less mass than Earth, but if it approached that closely, ever, it would have perturbed the moon's orbit completely out and away from Earth eons ago and the affect to Earth's orbit would be devastating.
Facebook is full of "Full Of Shit" people posting "Full Of Shit" crap, constantly. I have never been there, but my wife goes there every day and "catches up" with her old friends. I see a lot of what goes on there.
Well, at least I got her on a computer, finally - about five years ago when I bought her a Microsoft Surface tablet (time for an upgrade, actually) she would not even look at a screen.
Before that, the only computer exposure she would accept was using her cell phone to manage her grocery list (HUGE step, believe me!) and having me go find something she wanted to print or order for work.
