Has anybody out there ever had a little brother that was just so obnoxious you couldn't resist giving him a good old fashioned smack down from time to time, or at least damn well wanted to do so? Well, Mars is earth's little brother, more or less, and he has that kind of reputation, especially while he's in retrograde as he is now. He's close, very close, and we might soon see him get a good old-fashioned smackdown, according to this article. True, the odds are only one in seventy five, but I wonder what the result would be if it happened. Would he engage in the equivalent of little brother type whining, by way of a chain reaction involving previously latent volcanoes? Might this have some kind of profound effect on the Martian atmosphere?
Hat tip-The Poor Mouth