Wednesday, September 28, 2016
13/12
NASA is trying to solve a problem they created, and the solutions are only making it worse.
For some reason NASA decided to "correct" the Babylonian system of astrology, saying that there should have been 13 signs. At the same time they were trying to tell kids that astrology is bad science.
You can't say "X doesn't exist" and "X should be figured differently" at the same time. Correcting an item implies that the item exists and is worth correcting. It's like saying "Santa Claus doesn't exist AND he was really skinny, not fat."
The specific correction doesn't make sense anyway. The Babylonians had a highly sophisticated set of numbers and measurements based on 12s and 5s and 60s. These factors made it possible to split units in every natural way, by folding in halves and thirds, or by finger-counting. They wouldn't have mixed dissonant 13s into this 12-heavy system.
SOROS DELENDA EST.
Labels: Metrology
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