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[Thomas B]

I don't think the possition of Mars will make a difference... But there are a lot of solar flares this day's, I heard, and that can disturb the energie supley! It may have had some influence in the fall out of power stations a few days ago...

[Fons]

And Yeah, i heard that the earth and mars are very close to eachother!

Yes, on the 27th of August they reach the closest distance in 60.000 years!
But around year 2300 is the distance a bit more closer.

[Elmo]

But around year 2300 is the distance a bit more closer.

Indeed, at the 28th of August 2287 the distance will be 55,69 million km.
At the 8th of september the distance will be even closer, namely 55,65 mln km.

Around the year 6000 the smallest possible distance will be 55,09 mln km.
This is due to Albert Einsteins General Theory of Relativity, which causes
the orbits of the Earth and Mars not to be ellipses, but a specific type of
spirographs.

For more info about spirographs and about how to draw them see here