Zodiac Quiz

[ancal]

Quiz Time!!I'm curious about astrology. It's a good conversation starter, and it's a nice serendipituous way to gain insights about yourself and about people. On the other hand, I don't take it as a serious fact-provding thing. But at least two of my big science influences (Kary Mullis, inventor of the PCR, and Leefy) are into it

Comments

[hectortroy]

I remember Leefy saying it could possibly have a biological explanation, the hormones/What-It-Really-Is varying with a yearly cycle. Sounds quite plausible

[dnwq]

... but in everybody? Or even most people?

[ancal]

Sounds possible. But it's not convincing because I don't think it has any real evolutionary advantage -- one I can think of is that it ensures diversities of personality, but that's pretty weak.

Also if you throw in all the planet-based astrology, then it really makes no sense. =p

Also you must make sure the phenomena is there to begin with before you start to explain it.

[lowjh]

Perhaps somehow the alignment of the planets produces a infinitesimally small but crucial gravitational pull that somehow changes the composition of the dna or whatever it is that affects personality? =p

[hongyu]

mars is bright tonight.

[lowjh]

hwachong will shine tonight, hwachong will shine!

[ancal]

Also dnwq and I observe that if your theory is corrent, northern hemisphere people should have opposite results from southern hemisphere people, and equatorial people should be more or less screwed up. =p