Very good.

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That was *quality

@ant, why the down vote?

Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by ChaosEngine.

It wasn't funny. I didn't even snicker.

This is dumb. Pure dumb. History does exist and things do happen in waves and interference patterns through time. There absolutely should be patterns to what genetics show up when. If we base our lives on the sun and stars (which we do) then patterns of human behavior and genetic expression will form peaks and valleys in rhythm with the sun and stars. I don't know that astrology is a good way to recognize those patterns but the meat of the idea is completely ignored in this video.

uh-huh. Got any evidence to back that up?

Thought not.

I did not think I was writing anything controversial. What part don't you know about? Our year is definitely shaped by the sun and stars just look at our calendar. Something that happens does spread human to human over time so what you see in one place at one time might influence another place later. Every store looks at sales patterns from the previous year, month, week to try to predict how best to handle traffic and buying patterns. They certainly see patterns through history. Exactly what day you have sex to have a baby is certainly not random so then you have patterns of new DNA. I really don't think I wrote anything that isn't common knowledge or stands up to simple reasoning. What statement exactly would you like evidence for?

What statement did you make? All I saw was wishy-washy hand-wavy nonsense without a single verifiable claim.

Our year is shaped by geography and climate, the sun being part of that. Someone who grows up in the Arctic circle will have a very different experience than someone born on the same day in Australia. But even then, they might move.

The idea that "we base our lives on the sun and stars" is bullshit. The sun influences my life only to the extent that the weather does, and it certainly doesn't predetermine any kind of destiny. The stars don't influence my life at all, apart from being pretty to look at and interesting to learn about.

Did you not watch the video? That was the very first point that Dara spoke about; how the stars are not in the same place at the same point in a year.

Woah: http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4783211&cid=46227997

What about it?

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Oh, okay...

Somewhere out there is a British ant that laughs at this and downvotes all American comedy videos.

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