Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why astrology is rubbish. [1 Attachment]

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Among the arguments against astrology is the proper motion of stars. Stars are 
freely 'floating' in space. They are not fixed, they have velocities relative 
to other starts. Over time their positions in the sky change. Here is a sample 
of a familiar star grouping 'The Big Dipper' part of the constellation of Ursa 
Major, showing how the positions of stars change over time. The question that 
interests me is, if you were placed on a planet somewhere else and all the 
stars in the sky, and planets  (if any) were completely different, how would 
you construct an astrology system, and how would you know it worked? The 
attached image shows the constellation Scorpius (which astrologers call 
Scorpio) as it appears from Greenwich Observatory in England and how it appears 
from the neighbourhood of the star Rigel (which is in the constellation of 
Orion). Images like this show how parochial astrology really is in terms of 
systems that try to explain how the cosmos works. 
 Proper Motion of Ursa Major (the Big Dipper) http://youtu.be/txJH8RlIoXQ 
 
 http://youtu.be/txJH8RlIoXQ 
 
 Proper Motion of Ursa Major (the Big Dipper) http://youtu.be/txJH8RlIoXQ 
Download the original from: 
http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~pogge/Ast162/Movies/ This movie shows the 
appearance of the Big...
 
 
 
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