Re: Non Sequitur and The Mars Hoax

On May 30, 11:23 pm, Mike Beede <be...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article
<d237e673-2dab-446c-ab51-e88c9311b...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,

 bobbyd1...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
So is Wiley just going to leave it like that? With thousands of
readers believing that Mars is going to appear as large in the sky as
the moon?

While I know that I'm being foolish, I just can't believe
that any normally-intelligent adult would find that plausible,
given that a) most people have seen Mars, b) it never shows
a visible disk, most people have seen the Moon, and etc.

Most people seem to think the moon gets bigger at the horizon.
.

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