Do astrological events actually change some peoples behavior?.

[Hooked]

I have been wondering this for some time now. Does the moon, planets, and asteroids affect the way humans behave?. There is no doubt that right now the world is on fire, is it because of the added gravity of all these lunar alignment and events?. It just is really odd to me that at the same time as all this prophecy stuff, the world actually is near WW3. So my question is do any of these space alignments with earth have any effect on human sanity?.

[DarkTZeratul]

No, absolutely not. The relative position of the planets and the stars has absolutely no effect or significance, meaningful or otherwise, on anything with regards to our planet and its inhabitants. The gravitational forces of any celestial bodies further away than the moon and smaller than the sun are completely non-existent as far as the Earth is concerned (and the alignment that caused the lunar perigee to coincide with a lunar eclipse was likewise insignificant).

The only effects any of this stuff has on our sanity or mental states are the effects we create for ourselves by needlessly freaking out about them and inventing all sorts of absurd conspiracy theories.

[Hooked]

No, absolutely not. The relative position of the planets and the stars has absolutely no effect or significance, meaningful or otherwise, on anything. The gravitational forces of any celestial bodies further away than the moon and smaller than the sun are completely non-existent as far as the Earth is concerned (and the alignment that caused the lunar perigee to coincide with a lunar eclipse was likewise insignificant).

The only effects any of this stuff has on our sanity or mental states are the effects we create for ourselves by needlessly freaking out about them and inventing all sorts of absurd conspiracy theories.

The moon pulls up the water during high tide, and the moon is tiny. How do we know that .001% gravity will not affect peoples brains.

[Adam Jensen]

The other planets are too far away for their gravity to have any noticeable effect on the Earth.

They are also nothing more than big balls of gas and/or rock and thus don't give a flying fuck about the sentient blobs of carbon on the strange little rock that happens to be the third one in orbit around the somewhat average main sequence yellow dwarf star.

Earth is an anomaly that the rest of the universe doesn't give two shits about.

[DarkTZeratul]

The moon pulls up the water during high tide, and the moon is tiny. How do we know that .001% gravity will not affect peoples brains.

I'll answer that with a quote from and a link to an article explaining far better than I can why it doesn't:

"A host of studies over the years have aimed at teasing out any statistical connection between the moon — particularly the full moon — and human biology or behavior. The majority of sound studies find no connection, while some have proved inconclusive, and many that purported to reveal connections turned out to involve flawed methods or have never been reproduced. Reliable studies comparing the lunar phases to births, heart attacks, deaths, suicides, violence, psychiatric hospital admissions and epileptic seizures, among other things, have over and over again found little or no connection."

http://www.livescience.com/7899-moon...r-effects.html

[looorg]

Do astrological events actually change some peoples behavior? Possibly. But it doesn't mean it's the planets that change people. It is far more likely that it's people changing themselves cause they believe that the planets have en effect on the them. So more about psychology then any pulling force from the moon and stars. If you speak to people in the police and emergency service they seem to indicate that the full moon brings out the crazies. A belief that is a tad short of scientific backup as far as I know but they still believe in it.

[Adam Jensen]

The moon pulls up the water during high tide, and the moon is tiny. How do we know that .001% gravity will not affect peoples brains.

The Moon is close (in astronomical terms) and isn't tiny (compared to Earth). It's a fourth the size of our planet. Mars and Venus, our two closest neighbors are much further from the Earth than the moon is.

The Moon is about ~250,000 miles away (average)
Mars is about 141,000,000 miles away (average)
Venus is 162,000,000

That's five - six hundred times greater than the distance to the Moon for Mars and Venus.

And to make your theory even less sensical, the strength of gravity drops at an exponential rate in proportion to distance. Meaning that for every unit you move from an object with mass, its gravitational pull is cut in half. And then halved again. And then halved again. It's also the weakest of the four fundamental forces. Things have to either be really massive (the Sun holding the Earth in orbit) or really close (the Earth holding the Moon in orbit) for gravity to have a noticeable effect.

How do we know this "0.001% gravity" doesn't affect people's brains? We don't. But we have no reason to believe it does either. It's upon the person making the claim (you) to prove via experimentation and the scientific method, that it does. Until then, Occam's Razor says it doesn't.

[DarkTZeratul]

And to make your theory even less sensical, the strength of gravity drops at an exponential rate in proportion to distance. Meaning that for every unit you move from an object with mass, its gravitational pull is cut in half. And then halved again. And then halved again. It's also the weakest of the four fundamental forces. Things have to either be really massive (the Sun holding the Earth in orbit) or really close (the Earth holding the Moon in orbit) for gravity to have a noticeable effect.

And at those distances, your own gravitational force (infinitesimal though it is) would be far stronger than that of any planet or star.

[Nadiru]

Astrological events do change people's behavior...if they believe in astrology to begin with. It's all very circular.

[Deleted]

Do astrological events actually change some peoples behavior?.

They're astronomical events.

Astrology is a bullshit thing that has no basis in reality, and it stole the scientific -logy-suffix from the actual field of science, which is known as astronomy.

[Hooked]

They're astronomical events.

Astrology is a bullshit thing that has no basis in reality, and it stole the scientific -logy-suffix from the actual field of science, which is known as astronomy.

Whatever its called, whats your opinion on it?.

[Zogarth]

No, and there have been so much research on all this, all finding it either false or non-conclusive.

[Deleted]

Whatever its called, whats your opinion on it?.

In the case of an astronomical event where an asteroid hits the Earth and causes an extinction level event, the behavior of human beings goes from being alive to not existing at all. So yeah.

[Deleted]

Placebo effect and self-fulfilling prophecies by (religious) idiots.

[Deleted]

venus isnt the only thing rising tonight, my love....

[Independent voter]

If it was a big astral even like the moon exploding or the sun burning out like a lightbulb gone bad, it would affect behavior.

[Ryme]

I believe there is a link between the fullness of the moon and crime rates. In fact, a quick google revealed this http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1444800/

[Deleted]

I believe there is a link between the fullness of the moon and crime rates. In fact, a quick google revealed this http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1444800/

"The term lunar effect refers to the belief that there is correlation between specific stages of the Earth's lunar cycle".

Didn't need to read any more, one, a belief is meaningless, two, it's a belief in a correlation which in no way implies causality.

[Deleted]

I believe there is a link between the fullness of the moon and crime rates. In fact, a quick google revealed this http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1444800/

Correlation != causation.

[MegaVolti]

Obviously they do change peoples behaviour. Just like religion changes peoples behaviour. There doesn't have to be a real effect for behaviour to change, belief itself is enough.
No, there is no physical link between planets aligning and what humans do. None whatsoever, it's utterly stupid. Just like the idea of an almighty benevelant god is utterly stupid and makes no sense whatsoever.
Yes, both belief in god and belief in astrology still shape humans behaviour to a huge degree. It's sad but it's the way the world works - or doesn't work, because most of today's problems actually do arise because of belief in these silly superstitions. People do wage holy wars because of this crap, after all, for thousands of years now.