I have read the evidence thank you, I just prefer to be interested in it anyway because I like this kind of thing.

Sorry I can't be a scientific genius like the rest of you then

And to be fair, when I linked to articles debunking astrology, you said you'd prefer not to read them.

The transformative energy of Pluto motivates you, as you delve into the deepest mysteries of life. Whether you are trying to get to the bottom of a murder, or some heinous crime, or whether you are saving a life through your surgical skills, or pursuing a meditative magical mystery tour, you characteristically seek to uncover the truth or to transform raw materials into things of great power and beauty. Relationships are not exempt from this probing, so anyone involved with you must prepare for profound changes in themselves, their mysterious partner and the relationship itself.

Emotions govern your first reactions to every experience in life.

Although instinctive emotions generate the strongest motivations for your behaviour, you are not prone to wearing your heart on your sleeve (unlike the other Water Signs, those feeling-oriented Cancerians and Pisceans). You need to dominate relationships and rarely display your true feelings, holding back something of yourself, even at your most open and communicative moments. Although you may not intentionally set out to be mysterious, you manage to appear enigmatic anyway. You hate being crossed or manipulated, and can react to such treatment with sarcasm and vengefulness.

Scorpio rules the reproductive organs and excretory system, so those with Scorpio active in their charts suffer headaches, infections and fevers, along with various illnesses to do with what used to be called the secret parts. You have, however, a strong constitution and can usually overcome your problems, many of which are of your own making, due to your clandestine activities.

The transformative energy of Pluto motivates you, as you delve into the deepest mysteries of life. Whether you are trying to get to the bottom of a murder, or some heinous crime, or whether you are saving a life through your surgical skills, or pursuing a meditative magical mystery tour, you characteristically seek to uncover the truth or to transform raw materials into things of great power and beauty. Relationships are not exempt from this probing, so anyone involved with you must prepare for profound changes in themselves, their mysterious partner and the relationship itself.

The idea that your nature can be predicted by the motion of 9 planets will look quaint and positively ridiculous once I've finished processing the 200 million celestial objects in the Sloan Catalog

Seriously, what?
Nope, that's all completely wrong too.

Scientists get up go to work and try and prove other scientists wrong because secretly they hate each other.

Politics at work FTFY.

But for all the fields of human endevour spoilt by human inadequacies at least science has built in checks for humans being dicks.

But for all the fields of human endevour spoilt by human inadequacies at least science has built in checks for humans being dicks.

Fucking true that. So fucking true. But for all the fields of human endevour spoilt by human inadequacies at least science has built in checks for humans being dicks.

You had a headache the other week didn't you Dave? Sounds pretty conclusive to me.

Sometimes, I just fucking despair.

I wish this had some kind of context. Not only did I get put into A&E by a door, but now I also think MaliA is despairing because of the highly unhinged door that attacked me.

Whether you are trying to get to the bottom of a murder, or some heinous crime, or whether you are saving a life through your surgical skills, or pursuing a meditative magical mystery tour

along with various illnesses to do with what used to be called the secret parts.

I'm surprised that Homeopathy can be allowed on the NHS without first passing some sort of NICE clinical trial to prove that it actually works.

I don't mind Astrology. If that's what some people choose to believe, I'm happy to let them.

I loathe astronomy though, it's a fucking waste of money.

Just imagine if we'd spent all that time and resource on something that was actually worthwhile. Boggles in the mind.

I think anything decorative and non-functional is a waste of money in a world with finite resources. Sometimes I'm watching bargain hunt or 'shit in the attic' or whatever it's called, and ponder for a moment what the human race could have accomplished by now if we hadn't spent the last hundreds and thousands of years manufacturing tasteless pointless tat that fills houses everywhere. Just imagine if we'd spent all that time and resource on something that was actually worthwhile. Boggles in the mind.

You though wrong. I'm not even sure how it could be construed as irony.

I don't think all space technology is a waste of money, nor do I think it can all be attributed to astronomy.

I do thing that spending billions of dollars to study the movement of celestial bodies and what not, is a waste.

Aww, go on.

I wouldn't want a world with no cancer and punlessly titled porn.

As somebody (I don't know who) once said, if we could channel the energy we put into porn movie titles, we
could probably cure cancer.

I think anything decorative and non-functional is a waste of money in a world with finite resources. Sometimes I'm watching bargain hunt or 'shit in the attic' or whatever it's called, and ponder for a moment what the human race could have accomplished by now if we hadn't spent the last hundreds and thousands of years manufacturing tasteless pointless tat that fills houses everywhere. Just imagine if we'd spent all that time and resource on something that was actually worthwhile. Boggles in the mind.

Or there are multiple realities where everything that could possibly exist, exists.

Can anyone tell I've been watching Sliders lately?

Well the definition of 'useful' is subjective. You could argue pointless, ugly tat makes people happy and thus serves a worthy purpose. But I think again about the whole production process, hundreds of factories using thousands of tonnes of non-renewable raw materials, working day and night, belching out smoke and CO2 to the detriment of the environment as a whole, and all you have to show for it at the end is a hideous telletubby ornament, or similar.

I reserve my scorn and "why the fuck are we wasing skilled people on this" feelings for utility items that are already as useful as they will ever, ever need to be. Toothbrushes, say, or razors, or shoes or hoovers. Those people could be designing something worthwhile - we don't need razors with sixty-two blades and a torch, or a marginally more effective hoover. The only decent improvement with either would be something that literally does everything for you while you sleep or read a book, and the technology for that is far beyond us now, so can't we just bloody drop it for a few decades and get them working on seat belts or better prosthetics for amputees or something?

I reserve my scorn and "why the fuck are we wasing skilled people on this" feelings for utility items that are already as useful as they will ever, ever need to be. Toothbrushes, say, or razors, or shoes or hoovers. Those people could be designing something worthwhile - we don't need razors with sixty-two blades and a torch, or a marginally more effective hoover.

No. We have a free market economy, which means the focus of companies and hence researches (well, commercial ones anyway) will always be dictated by the desires, and not the needs, of the population. And the middle classes will always spend money on lawn ornaments.

This wastes a load of effort on trivia, as you have pointed out, but the only alternatives to this free market is some sort of centralised control of either what people buy or what they are sold. In other words, basically, the alternatives start with the letter C and end with the fall of the Iron Curtain.

We don't need razors with sixty-two blades and a torch

In other words, basically, the alternatives start with the letter C and end with the fall of the Iron Curtain.

CthefalloftheIronCurtain?? Is he some sort of Demon?