12-11-2016, 02:26 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-11-2016, 02:34 PM by Anthony '58.)
The "perihelion/oppositions" of Mars and the Sun are never absolutely exact; but twice every 32 years they are as near as makes no difference to being exact, causing Mars to shine at a brightness exceeding -2.0 magnitude. And of course Mars was not in opposition to the Sun on May 31, 2000 - and I only interjected that to demonstrate that this event was not visible from the Earth (Jupiter and Saturn rose an average of just eight minutes before the Sun!) while the 2020 event will be.
And my point of view is not really unique, in that it is largely influenced by various figures, most notably Michael Lind, but also prominently including the late Mike Royko in second place, followed by Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Henry "Scoop" Jackson, James Oberstar and, if posthumously, Hugh Carey.
And my point of view is not really unique, in that it is largely influenced by various figures, most notably Michael Lind, but also prominently including the late Mike Royko in second place, followed by Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Henry "Scoop" Jackson, James Oberstar and, if posthumously, Hugh Carey.
"These, and many other matters which might be noticed, add a volume of unofficial declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation" - Justice David Brewer, Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, 1892