Unlike astrology, psi-research has over 30 years success in demonstrating that real, measurable effects do exist using the very statistics that so many posters here eschew. Subjects are capable of affecting random-even-generating devices better than chance and are capable of scoring better than chan... Forum: Philosophy & Science Topic: Statistics Replies: 100 Views: 76091 Tue Dec 28, 2010 12:15 am Jump to post
Gautthard Tunnel Breakthrough After 14 years of drilling it breaks through at 14:17 ECST 15 Oct 2010 46n23 8e55 http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r177/marty_0750/Charts/GotthardTunnelbreakthrough_1217UT.gif Features of the chart: Venus is exactly culminating orb few arc-minutes, even though standard ecliptic projection puts it ... Forum: Mundane & Financial Astrology Topic: Gautthard Tunnel Breakthrough Replies: 1 Views: 3050 Sat Oct 16, 2010 5:50 am Jump to post
I call it the Jupiter-Uranus Extraordinary Moments cycle. It crops up especially during triple conjunctions Indeed Jupiter-Uranus for this event culminated on the Mc within the few minutes when Florencio emerged from the capsule. Moon-Pluto-Node squared to it speaks of the extreme emotional tension ... Forum: Mundane & Financial Astrology Topic: Miners rescued in Chile after 69 days below Replies: 23 Views: 9106 Thu Oct 14, 2010 11:20 am Jump to post
dmause wrote: Allegedly they used to be Astrologers ( Dean,Smit,Ertel ) so they were friendly towards Astrology. They didn`t use the word "debunk", I did The allegation is true. I knew Dean and Smit both Australia back in the 70's and 80's. They read charts and clients paid them money. Martin Forum: Philosophy & Science Topic: Interview with researchers Replies: 63 Views: 33073 Wed Sep 22, 2010 7:41 am Jump to post
Hence I'm confused again - why are these figures saying that there is a difference and you are saying there is not ?? Eddy is correct in that the longitudes of Mars perihelion and node do precess However the rates are slow so make a small difference over the centuries. Peri = 1.84?/cent Node = 0.77... Forum: Philosophy & Science Topic: Absolute maximum declination of each planet Replies: 29 Views: 29516 Sat Apr 03, 2010 3:12 am Jump to post
It's holiday time so I have a bit of time to knock these up. Here is the Mars geo lat illustration. The differnces in north and south max geo lats is due to the large eccentricity of the Mars orbit. Other planets have less eccentricity so the differences are smaller. http://i144.photobucket.com/albu... Forum: Philosophy & Science Topic: Absolute maximum declination of each planet Replies: 29 Views: 29516 Fri Apr 02, 2010 7:55 am Jump to post
Hi all Perhaps this illustration would help (angles exaggerated for clarity). Edit (2010-04-01) Image updated Martin Forum: Philosophy & Science Topic: Absolute maximum declination of each planet Replies: 29 Views: 29516 Wed Mar 31, 2010 2:07 pm Jump to post
Moon is VOC about 10% of the time. Node would be in H1 about 12% of the time rendering about 22% horarys unreadable. That's still 78% readable. Even with added lots/parts restrictions surely there would enought % charts that are readble - or are there too many restrictions that render horary essenta... Forum: Philosophy & Science Topic: testing astrology with statistical methods Replies: 48 Views: 34374 Thu Jan 07, 2010 7:10 am Jump to post
That's not the point. No one said science gets everything wrong. The point is that their worldview gets skewed by their falling in love with themselves, and they become borderline violent when someone challenges it. Try to disagree with Darwinism for example. Try to question it. If they believed th... Forum: Philosophy & Science Topic: Dark Matter Replies: 33 Views: 24228 Tue Jan 05, 2010 2:32 am Jump to post
I am trying to figure out whether the discovery of Dark matter weakens the authoritive stand of Science or whether it is an occasion used to attempt and market the importance of the scientific mission. This is like asking whether the failure of astrologers to prove that astrology is not illusion at... Forum: Philosophy & Science Topic: Dark Matter Replies: 33 Views: 24228 Thu Dec 03, 2009 5:07 am Jump to post
I detect a sense of antiscience smugness here. Most of science is stumbling through making informed guesses then testing often repeatedly and failing many times before discoveries are made that build on knowledge. Martin I'm afraid that like adolescents, most astrologers react against those whom th... Forum: Philosophy & Science Topic: Dark Matter Replies: 33 Views: 24228 Mon Nov 30, 2009 12:38 am Jump to post
Yes, but if scientists can't see and don't understand 96% of the Universe they are doing an aweful lot of whacking with the remaining 4%. But that 4% is where 96%(?) of the complexity resides. Ignorance of a single bulk parameter is not a good way to gauge level of overall ignorance. [...] Could I,... Forum: Philosophy & Science Topic: Dark Matter Replies: 33 Views: 24228 Mon Nov 30, 2009 12:26 am Jump to post