Neil deGrasse Tyson and Joe Rogan discuss Astrology

it's it's just gotta be frustrating for you when these things come back around like there was no flatter theory when I was in high school so there are other things though think about it when you're in high school there was much more astrology going on oh yeah the President Reagan let's talk about that Nancy Reagan has an astrologer so today you don't see much of it unless you talk to Steve Maxwell well but it's still there it's just not it's not manifesting in public policy some people believe in a deeply I agree but it's not up there in public policy that's when I say okay well the Nancy Reagan was really the only one that made it when publishers like then but at the bar do you hear people saying if you're a Taurus we should just stop that I misled myself I thought it was fading oh but just but Nancy Reagan was the big proponent it's nonsense astrology now it's not like someone who really understands astrological charts and can plot it in the moons and retrograde and you were born and you know Celsius was rising and all that crazy crap that they tried I don't know what their I was on a talk show with finished Roger a real one apparently yes she's real she says she's real okay and I trust her because she talks about how fake other astrologers are don't trust her and she was saying that the Kennedys all died during a lunar eclipse Oh scary and you know that this is a very checkable statement she just says this and everyone's listening and believing and Wow that's that can't be by accident well I don't know when other Kennedys died but I know when Jack Kennedy died and there was November 22nd 1963 so I so I don't need to know if there's an eclipse then I just need to know what phase the moon is in right because you can only have a lunar eclipse when the moon is full so the moon was nowhere near full it was like two weeks away from full if there was an eclipse it didn't happen during eclipse is my point right okay so of course because it was daylight well no no you can have a lunar eclipse at any time okay you can't a solar you dark it's just not for you would be fruit of your world right right don't be so it's so centric in fact when there's a lunar eclipse anyone on the side of the earth that sees the moon will see the lunar eclipse so the so by the way lunar eclipses you get several per year by the way partial eclipses as a minimum in every couple years there's a full lunar eclipses so these are not rare things to start they're not rare okay so I said you know he was shot when the I forgot what muna was in the first quarter moon and she said oh well this counts if they're anywhere within two weeks on either side of the Eclipse what that's a month that's a month it's I said let me just shut up here and let her keep it was a what did she staring the time it was a Pharrell had a talk should we abort aren't you so and he'd like science by the way and he he won a cert at the at they at the the Academy Award group photo so I gotta give him some props for that but so but so I just said I have nothing more to say here hence my arguing with her lasted less than five minutes now what are they when they're trying to decide like what your personality would be and what you you know hike what you can dictate from your birth date and what time you were born what what are they exactly trying to connect so I I had a deeper awareness of this recently when I learned that people take the names of things very seriously okay the names mean things to people regardless of what the thing actually is okay okay so now the ancients looked up and they saw these stars and they put their culture on the sky so they're sent or there's there's you know we're sent there so Center Archer so it's Sagittarius we have a Ryan the hunter we have Taurus so we have sea serpents we have rivers we have stuff that mattered to people back then okay we have an Aquarius what is it was the Water Bearer oh the Water Bearer that must mean that when the Sun is in Aquarius it's gonna rain more on earth why because the ancients called it the Water Bearer ah okay and all of a sudden the name reigns supreme over the fact that it is a random set of stars widely separated in space that don't even look like people holding a pitcher of water of the 88 constellations about six of them look like what you're told they're supposed to look like the rest to require opium induced imagination to establish what they are so they all have names then you go to the astrologers tables and they say oh this is the raine sign or this is a dry drought sign and there you take the names of things and those names or what they interpret based on where the moon is the Sun is where the planets are and all whatever the angle configurations there are and each angle has a certain latitude over which they'll count it as a hit rather than as a miss and so this gives extraordinary capacity of the astrologer to tell you what's going on in your life so it's

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Keywords: Neil deGrasse Tyson, deGrasse, Tyson, joe rogan, powerfuljre, joe rogan poscast, poscast, astrology, astrophysicist, cosmologist, hayden planetarium, debunked

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Length: 6min 15sec (375 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 22 2017