SA cricket fans pitch a fit
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After spending my entire life as a nonpractising Scorpio, it was with quite a jolt that I learnt that those spoilsports over at Nasa have decided to change all the star signs.Unlike the other major religions — I’m also a nonpractising Catholic, so I vaguely know of what I speak — astrology made the mistake of adopting a pseudoscientific holy writ, rather than relying entirely on surreal leaps of faith. So it’s pretty awkward when a bunch of scientists brings the force of astronomy to bear on the farce of astrology: "We didn’t change any zodiac signs, we just did the math," the jokers over at Nasa merrily tell us on their blog.Apparently, the original zodiac signs arose because, 3,000 years ago, the Babylonians divided the sky into 12 equal parts, through which an imaginary straight line drawn from Earth into space would pass as the Earth orbited the sun. As they used a 12-month calendar, each month was assigned a zodiac sign to itself.But, Nasa tells us, "even according to the Babyl...
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