How to have lucid dreams?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

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Boru

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

And at 9:40 he flatly states that predictions about the future - astrology’s bread and butter - are no better than guesses.

Boru

9:40 is talking about predictions.
9:10 is talking about long-term effects of the cosmic system.

Moreover, just like we today are capable of simulating scenarios in a simulation, maybe the people of the past had similar methods or knowledge.

I agree that the cosmos is a dynamic, ever changing system. That's doesn't mean that astrological predictions are worthy of serious consideration.

Boru

[no one]

You mean to tell me, that the position of a star, several thousand light-years away, has no impact on my life at all?

Do you know preposterous that sounds?

[Paleophyte]

Nope. There are turtles in a swamp in Iowa passing gas right now and the butterflies that they aren't farting have more of an effect on you than any star other than the sun ever will. Every whale that humps half a world away has more effect on you. You will never feel the tug of a star because their infinitesimal pull is swamped by the tremendous gravity shift you feel when snow slides off your roof*. You can invoke chaos until your eyes bleed, but those turtle farts will always produce more chaotic effects than your feeble star gravity. Science tells your superstitious nonsense to pound sand.

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Weird but true, the gravitational pull of snow on the observatory roof has been measured by researchers. They had to ask maintenance to please stop clearing the roof until they were finished calibrating their superconducting gravimeter. They had been unable to determine the source of the 2 microgal change, a signal 1000 times greater than background, until one of the researchers noticed that it took a break for tea.

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So frog farts block gravity?

Turtle farts. Please try and keep up. And no, they don't block gravity. They simply exert more gravity than any star in the night sky. So for accuracy your horoscope must track and predict every turtle that passes gas.

About effects of close objects; sure; the closer an object is to you the more it affects you.
But that doesn't nullify the far objects' effects on you.

Swamped in the noise is the term you're looking for. Here are a few quick numbers:

• Sagittarius A* - 0.000866 nanogal
  
• Alpha Centauri - 0.00848 nanogal
  
• The Andromeda Galaxy - 0.024 nanogal
  
• A cat on the other side of the street - 0.08 nanogal
  
• The tree you're sitting under - ~140 nanogals
  
• Where you live +/- 50,000,000 nanogals (50 milligals)
  

For example, even though the sun's gravity is strong on the short term and affect us in stronger ways than other objects (just like the frogs' gas and earth) , the Black Hole on the center of our galaxy wins on the long term, and it shall eat our planet eventually.

And horoscopes are predicted on the very short term.

[arewethereyet]

we are discussing "the positions of the stars" and their effect on earth. After all, we are all part of the same system (i.e the universe) and the tiniest difference in star/planetary systems would lead to differences here on earth, just like science proved:

Nope. There are turtles in a swamp in Iowa passing gas right now and the butterflies that they aren't farting have more of an effect on you than any star other than the sun ever will. Every whale that humps half a world away has more effect on you. You will never feel the tug of a star because their infinitesimal pull is swamped by the tremendous gravity shift you feel when snow slides off your roof*. You can invoke chaos until your eyes bleed, but those turtle farts will always produce more chaotic effects than your feeble star gravity. Science tells your superstitious nonsense to pound sand.

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Weird but true, the gravitational pull of snow on the observatory roof has been measured by researchers. They had to ask maintenance to please stop clearing the roof until they were finished calibrating their superconducting gravimeter. They had been unable to determine the source of the 2 microgal change, a signal 1000 times greater than background, until one of the researchers noticed that it took a break for tea.

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Wait...there are swamps in Iowa?  I grew up there.  How did I miss swamps and only see one corn field after another?

[Paleophyte]

Wait...there are swamps in Iowa?  I grew up there.  How did I miss swamps and only see one corn field after another?

Not many left, but yeah, there are.