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Old July 2nd 18, 03:25 AM posted to sci.astro.amateur
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Default Oh no, not again

On Sunday, July 1, 2018 at 4:55:11 AM UTC-6, Gary Harnagel wrote:
On Saturday, June 30, 2018 at 7:38:11 AM UTC-6, Chris L Peterson wrote:


(Nobody denies UFOs are real. The claim that they're alien visitors is
a pretty good litmus test for insanity, though.)


Mars is approaching opposition again. It is a bright jewel in the early
morning sky ...


No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth
century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by
intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that
as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were
scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with
a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm
and multiply in a drop of water.

John Savard