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Why astrology doesn’t make sense

It had to happen soon or later, and so, 3 days since this blog was created, here is an entry that is sure to offend a lot of people. :)

Astrology, of which are several kinds (the “sun signs” one, which everyone knows about, is just one) is thousands of years old. Which makes a lot of sense - when there is no science at all to tell us how life, the universe and everything work, and people do want to know, they are bound to invent something… to imagine something may be true, and then unconsciously change that belief to: it is true. Thus, our cave dwelling ancestors would believe that a thunderstorm was “the wrath of the gods”, and would scurry around trying to figure out what they could probably have done to offend the gods, and how they could appease their anger. Hey, what about a sacrifice? If an animal isn’t enough, maybe sacrificing your youngest daughter will really prove your faith…

Back to astrology, though.

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An insane world

A friend of mine had told me about this as she read a newspaper, and today my brother initiated a thread about it in my forum (in Portuguese).

Basically, Marina Bai, a Russian astrologist, sued NASA for… wait for it… “changing her horoscope” by crashing a probe into a comet, in order to study it.

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