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Zodiac sign: Serpentarius

Astrology is a communist pseudoscience

Ann asked me what is my zodiac sign: well, it is Serpentarius,

currently called Ophiuchus, the least known among the 13 zodiac signs.

Everyone who was born between 11/30 and 12/17 had this sign behind the

Sun although most of these people incorrectly assume that they are

Sagittarius. ;-)

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Figure 1: Sagittarius Serpentarius (Secretary Bird), the heterotic

result of a compromise between the scientific and unscientific

approach to the zodiacal constellations. It is an extraordinary bird

of prey in the "least concern" category. The word "secretary" comes

from the pencils that it stores for the secretaries. According to

others, they're arrows which is why it is a Sagittarius. But the bird

likes to eat snakes which is why it is Serpentarius.

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Ann Coulter recently pointed out that astrologers are almost as

untrustworthy as the global warming alarmists. I agree with her:

astrology is just another communist pseudoscience. :-) The main

features of astrology that justify this description are the following:

1. egalitarianism

2. elimination of inconvenient groups

3. static picture of the world

4. the desire to control the world from the top

Egalitarianism of astrology is obvious. All zodiac signs had to be

assigned exactly 1/12 of the year - just like every European country

can only get one out of 12 stars on the European flag - even though

there are obvious differences in the size of the constellations.

More seriously, it turned out that there is a 13th constellation, the

Serpentarius, that didn't fit the pre-conceived picture at all. Well,

it had to be eliminated from the list of astrological signs. There

must exist egalitarianism but only for those who "deserve" it. Those

who are outside the box must be sent to Siberia and destroyed.

The ideology behind astrology was absolutely static. They believed

Aristotle's dogma that the heavens couldn't ever change. Aristotle

could have been smart in some ways but in most ways, he was nearly as

naive as the proponents of Gaia.

Johannes Kepler, an early 17th century string theorist who became

famous for the laws describing the low-energy non-relativistic

two-body limit of string theory and who discovered an early version of

the ADE classification, observed the last certain supernova explosion

in our Galaxy: SN 1604 occured on the right Serpentarius' leg in 1604.

Galileo Galilei, a fellow string theorist, later used Kepler's

observation to disprove the Aristotelian dogma that the heavens were

completely static.

Figure 2: Kepler's drawing of Serpentarius: wasn't he a great artist?

The supernova "N" is near the right leg.

This dogma has always been very powerful. For example, they used to

think that if they would divide the year into 12 zodiac signs, such a

fragmentation of the year would be valid forever. Some better

astronomers have known about the precession of the Earth. At any rate,

the zodiac signs have shifted by 1 sign since the zodiac was

introduced because it has been more than -(1+2+3+4+...) of the period

of the precession which is D thousand years. Recall that the sum of

integers equals -1/12 and the critical dimension of bosonic string

theory is D=26.

Of course, the people who were designing the zodiac didn't care that

the future generations would feel annoyed by this upgef*cked science.

In some sense and despite their quiet temperament, the creators of the

great global astrology swindle were the same kind of megalomaniacs as

the proponents of the catastrophic global warming. Both of these

groups think that they're smarter than the people who will live

centuries in the future from now which is why they want to dictate how

the people in the future should live, what constellations they should

believe coincides with the Sun, and how much carbon they should emit.

The future generations feel cheated by their ancestors.

Finally, astrology wanted to organize the world from the top. The

stars, planets, and constellations were Big Brothers - or Big Sisters,

in order for me to be politically correct - who had the right to

control human lives as well as all microscopic processes on Earth and

elsewhere. Astrology was wrong and other leftist ideologies are wrong,

too. :-)