"Sedna - the planet of passion"

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"Sedna - the planet of passion"

Oh, my. It had to happen sometime.

Called Sedna, it is the first new member of our solar system to be found since Pluto in 1930 — and it could work wonders for your passion ration.

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It was first sighted on November 14, 2003 by American scientists, at a time when the sign of Scorpio ruled.

But the experts waited until now, when Pisces rules, to announce it. This timing, plus the naming of the planet, may seem to be just a matter of choice — but there is a greater force at work here. Both the star signs are water signs, and the name given to the planet is also connected to the oceans. Put these three things together and you get the first clues to what this tenth planet can mean for us. It could be our guiding light to sex, love and creativity. First of all, the timing of the announcement suggests that anything is possible for mankind.

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Sedna is of course not the "first new member" of our solar system.

The article has an image, purportedly of "Sedna". The image is a computer-generated image of Io, and in the background, we see Jupiter.

:hb:
 
What? four planets? Did we say four? No, the first four. We never said they were the only ones that determined our fate. All eight do.

What did we say eight? We never said they were the only eight that determined our fate. All nine do.

What? Did we say nine? We nver said they were the only nine that determined our fate.

Our chief weapon is surprise and fear...

Our two chief weapons are surpise and fear and...

Our three chief weapons are...

:brk:
 
Claus, were do you dig up this stuff?
Called Sedna, it is the first new member of our solar system to be found since Pluto in 1930 — and it could work wonders for your passion ration.
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So.... the implication is that the planet does not influence my horoscope until it's been discovered. It's been there forever but only now that we've found it will it affect my future.


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On a more local scale, think about all the things that were happening just as the discovery of the new planet was announced — if England can bowl out the West Indies for 47, and Manchester City can beat United 4-1, then each one of us is capable of so much more than we thought.

I believe this new planet will open our minds and hearts to a new way of living. It is a chance for harmony to replace hostility.
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Uhh, excuze me, but .... this planet wuz there all the time.

- Did its influence change because we discovered it?
- Does its influence depend on WHEN we discovered it? (And if yes, do we know when the old planets were discovered??)
- Does its influence depend on which name we give it? (And if yes, that about the other names that the old planets have been called by, in different languagess, and different times??)

And assuming, after all, that the new planet has influenced us all along, how come this "powerful influence" has not messed up horoscopes rather thoroughly in the past?

:rolleyes: :nope: :rolleyes:

Hans
 
Iconoclast said:
Claus, were do you dig up this stuff?
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From a Danish astrology board, of course. The article was just posted by the Danish astrologer Claus Houlberg, completely uncritically.

Iconoclast said:
So.... the implication is that the planet does not influence my horoscope until it's been discovered. It's been there forever but only now that we've found it will it affect my future.
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That's what astrologer Linda Goodman says. This is, of course, heavily disputed by some astrologers. They can't come up with a better explanation themselves, of course...
 
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Iconoclast said:
So.... the implication is that the planet does not influence my horoscope until it's been discovered. It's been there forever but only now that we've found it will it affect my future.
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That's my take on it, too.

I would have really been impressed if an astrologer had said: "Hmm, there is some sort of influence on life happening here that cannot be explained by the known astronomical bodies. But what could explain it is another astronomical body..." and then estimating the approximate mass, distance, right ascension and declination of Sedna.

There are some very humorous incidents in the history of science in which people started noticing "effects" that they had not noticed previously, upon publication of a scientific fact. When Foucault publicly demonstrated his famous pendulum, for example, he dramatically demonstrated that the Earth rotates. Some people responded to the experiment by claiming that they could actually feel the Earth rotating beneath their feet! How curious that they never noticed this effect before....
 
CFLarsen said:
That's what astrologer Linda Goodman says. This is, of course, heavily disputed by some astrologers.
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You're saying Ms Goodman asserts that a planet WILL affect us only after it's been discovered? Is she citing quantum theory by any chance? You know, the act of observation collapses the wave function, affects the state of the object blah blah blah...
 
By the way, is that "passion" in the sense of sexual desire, or "passion" in the sense of "The Passion of the Christ?"

Is it possible that Mel Gibson has orchestrated the timing of the announcement to promote his new movie??
 
MRC_Hans said:
- Did its influence change because we discovered it?
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Oh, come on. You know perfectly well that belief is a necessity for any of these effects to work. They couldn't believe in something they didn't know about, so it had no influence. Now they know about it, this opens the channels for the influence to exert an effect.

Just like those homoeopathic pills had no effect on you because you didn't "believe" in it. :D

Rolfe.
 
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Brown said:
When Foucault publicly demonstrated his famous pendulum, for example, he dramatically demonstrated that the Earth rotates. Some people responded to the experiment by claiming that they could actually feel the Earth rotating beneath their feet! How curious that they never noticed this effect before....
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When New Coke was introduced I had several people tell me they didn't like the new taste of it, even though not a drop of the stuff ever made it to Australia.

And here's a cool Foucault's pendulum installed at the Queen Victoria Building in Sydney, utilising a 5kg ball.
 
MRC_Hans said:
Uhh, excuze me, but .... this planet wuz there all the time.

- Did its influence change because we discovered it?
- Does its influence depend on WHEN we discovered it? (And if yes, do we know when the old planets were discovered??)
- Does its influence depend on which name we give it? (And if yes, that about the other names that the old planets have been called by, in different languagess, and different times??)

And assuming, after all, that the new planet has influenced us all along, how come this "powerful influence" has not messed up horoscopes rather thoroughly in the past?

:rolleyes: :nope: :rolleyes:

Hans
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Maybe its influence caused us to discover it and what to name it. :p :D
 
So CF got digs up his "interesting" information from Danish astrologers. Hell, no wonder there's always something rotten in Denmark.

But what the heck? If this newfound planet is suppose to work wonders for our passion, then Claus DESPERATELY needs it.

ROFLMAO....:roll:
 
Cynical said:
...But what the heck? If this newfound planet is suppose to work wonders for our passion, then Claus DESPERATELY needs it.
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Not from what I have seen.
 
Originally posted by Cynical

But what the heck? If this newfound planet is suppose to work wonders for our passion, then Claus DESPERATELY needs it.
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I don't know. Someone more clever than I could probably make something of the possible implications of Sedna being an anagram for Danes. I'm just wondering where all those sex-masterful Plutonic neighbors are.

I happened upon a library book today with a title like "The Science Behind Astrology" or something similar. Funny what you'll come across while looking for a Shermer book.
 
lofgoernost said:
I happened upon a library book today with a title like "The Science Behind Astrology" or something similar.
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Was the entire book a collection of blank pages? ;)
 
Spell it backwards and what do you see?

Andes

Meaning the mountain range?
I have concluded NO.

That leaves only one other logical, completely plausible, believable explanation for the discovery of, and naming of this new planet.

Andes as in Andes Candies.
Andes Candies is a subsidiary of Tootsie Roll Incorporated, whose product line consists of numerous confectionaries including:

Sugar Daddy
Sugar Babies
Charleston Chew

Glancing at three candies, I spotted that the following anagram can be made up from the three:

LEND CASH SAID RACY BASTARD GEORGE W. BUSH

So, it is obvious this is nothing more than a cleverly disguised fund raising gimmick being perpetrated on all of us unknowing victims... until now. Bush has been exposed, and I feel like eating a candy bar.
 
Having got a planet named Pluto, you'd think they'd have named the new one Mickey Mouse. :D
 
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