Posted by Dan Lind on July 24, 2005 at 07:06:50 from 70.69.183.236 user captain.
A non-TARS friend (poor chap) has reported that Mars will be closer to Earth next month than during the last 5,000 years, and won't be this close again for the next 60,000 years (or something like that).
I've sent an eel mail to my friend and TARS resident astronomer, Gilbert Satterthwaite, who should be able to provide expert information.
However, eel mails sometimes don't work.... Gilbert, are you there?
We need your advice.
"An astronomer might be useful."
(Gilbert wrote the excellent article "Signalling to Mars - or Ransome" in the last TARS newsletter SIGNALS, and delighted all of us at World's Whopper AGM a few years ago, and at the LW in Greenwich more recently.)
However, most memorable of all was a rendez-vous at the World's End Pub, and AR walk in the local area, after the LW in Durham. Gilbert, Brian, Tony and I met there and had a wonderful evening at World's End. (TARS aficianados will know that AR stopped at the World's End while enroute to his flat during his Bohemia in London days.) (The AR walk almost proved longer than our capacity for beer.) What a wonderful evening!