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According to ancient scripture, "when the three planets are in eclipse, a black hole like a door is open, evil comes, spreading terror and chaos". The archaeolo

According to ancient scripture, "when the three planets are in eclipse, a black hole like a door is open, evil comes, spreading terror and chaos". The archaeologist working on this back in 1914 estimated this would happen every five thousand years (if his assumptions for the signs representing "1" and "5" were correct). Fortunately, this isn't expected to happen until 2263. Still, in a 2020 full of surprises, having alignment of two out of three planets is too close for comfort. (just to make this perfectly green: no, this comment is not supposed to be taken seriously)

jrootabega 6y ago
Aziz light?
- ggambetta 6y ago
  Much better, thank you, Aziz. Aziz looks confused
- gruturo 6y ago
  AZIZ! LIGHT!
  - lifeisstillgood 6y ago
    oooohhh - OK now I get it ... thank you (spoiler - opening scene of the fifth element)
friendlybus 6y ago
Crystal green? Any kind of green
mcintyre1994 6y ago
Perhaps the Mayans were exactly 8 years out? :)
thebigspacefuck 6y ago
Three in alignment is called a syzygy. Apparently this occurrence in the house of Aquarius is particularly bad. There’s an X-Files about it.
dane-pgp 6y ago
Slightly more seriously, it's interesting to note that, according to Wikipedia[0]: > When studying the great conjunction of 1603, Johannes Kepler thought that the Star of Bethlehem might have been the occurrence of a great conjunction. ... A triple conjunction is a conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn at or near their opposition to the Sun. In this scenario, Jupiter and Saturn will occupy the same position in right ascension (or ecliptic longitude) on three occasions (due to apparent retrograde motion) over a period of a few months. Presumably the significance of a triple conjunction is that it explains the story of the Magi seeing a "star in the East", which then "troubled" Jerusalem when they arrived there, until it "went before them", and then finally "stood over where the young Child was".[1] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_conjunction#%E2%88%926 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_conjunction#%E2%88%926 [1] https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+2%3A1-12&version=NKJV https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+2%3A1-1...
- antognini 6y ago
  In addition to that, while Kepler was lecturing on the Great Conjunction he was drawing the trigon [1] which shows how the locations of Great Conjunctions change over time. This drawing (consisting of a triangle inscribed inside a circle that gets shifted over time), inspired him to pursue the idea that the distances to the planets were determined by polygons of different shapes inscribed in circles. This didn't work, so he moved on to Platonic solids, which worked better, but still not perfectly. Eventually this pursuit lead him to the idea of describing the planetary orbits by ellipses. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_conjunction#/media/File:Keplers_trigon.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_conjunction#/media/File:...

jrootabega 6y ago

Aziz light?

ggambetta 6y ago
Much better, thank you, Aziz. Aziz looks confused
gruturo 6y ago
AZIZ! LIGHT!
- lifeisstillgood 6y ago
  oooohhh - OK now I get it ... thank you (spoiler - opening scene of the fifth element)

friendlybus 6y ago

Crystal green? Any kind of green

mcintyre1994 6y ago

Perhaps the Mayans were exactly 8 years out? :)

thebigspacefuck 6y ago

Three in alignment is called a syzygy. Apparently this occurrence in the house of Aquarius is particularly bad. There’s an X-Files about it.

dane-pgp 6y ago

Slightly more seriously, it's interesting to note that, according to Wikipedia[0]: > When studying the great conjunction of 1603, Johannes Kepler thought that the Star of Bethlehem might have been the occurrence of a great conjunction. ... A triple conjunction is a conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn at or near their opposition to the Sun. In this scenario, Jupiter and Saturn will occupy the same position in right ascension (or ecliptic longitude) on three occasions (due to apparent retrograde motion) over a period of a few months. Presumably the significance of a triple conjunction is that it explains the story of the Magi seeing a "star in the East", which then "troubled" Jerusalem when they arrived there, until it "went before them", and then finally "stood over where the young Child was".[1] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_conjunction#%E2%88%926 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_conjunction#%E2%88%926 [1] https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+2%3A1-12&version=NKJV https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+2%3A1-1...

antognini 6y ago
In addition to that, while Kepler was lecturing on the Great Conjunction he was drawing the trigon [1] which shows how the locations of Great Conjunctions change over time. This drawing (consisting of a triangle inscribed inside a circle that gets shifted over time), inspired him to pursue the idea that the distances to the planets were determined by polygons of different shapes inscribed in circles. This didn't work, so he moved on to Platonic solids, which worked better, but still not perfectly. Eventually this pursuit lead him to the idea of describing the planetary orbits by ellipses. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_conjunction#/media/File:Keplers_trigon.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_conjunction#/media/File:...