"This year , Mars lies a mere 56 million kilometres from Earth - the closest it has been for 60,000 years - so less fuel is needed to get to it ."
"This is obviously incorrect since Earth and Mars are were created only 6,000 years ago . And how did they know that Mars would be so close this year ? I have other questions too . How do they know that Pluto has a 249 year orbit of the sun since it was n't discovered until 1930 . No one has seen it orbit the sun yet . How did they know that it would actually come closer to the sun than Neptune in 1979 and move forther away again in 1999 ? They told me that when I was young . But no one had ever seen it . It was just speculation - a scientific theory , right ? ?"
"This year , Mars lies a mere 56 million kilometres from Earth - the closest it has been for 60,000 years - so less fuel is needed to get to it ."
"This is obviously incorrect since Earth and Mars are were created only 6,000 years ago . And how did they know that Mars would be so close this year ?"