Neil deGrasse Tyson: There's a 13th Zodiac Sign No One Talks About
Neil deGrasse Tyson says astrology has been mathematically dead since the Earth started wobbling on its axis. The kicker: there's a 13th zodiac sign your horoscope app deleted — and the entire billion-dollar industry refuses to acknowledge it.
Neil deGrasse Tyson is the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History and host of StarTalk.
We cover: why the precession of the equinoxes shifted every sign by an entire month, the constellation called Ophiuchus that astrologers pretend doesn't exist, the Hayden Planetarium encounter where a professional astrologer guessed Tyson's sign wrong eight times in a row, and why human brains are structurally incapable of thinking in probabilities — which is exactly what casinos and astrologers exploit.
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The single line from this conversation that should end astrology forever: "It just doesn't matter to astrologers."
00:00 The line that ends astrology in 5 seconds
00:31 The 13th sign your horoscope deleted
01:31 The math that already killed your birth chart
02:16 The astrologer who guessed wrong 8 times
03:10 Why your brain can't do probability
04:09 The casino industry runs on the same trick
04:21 Tyson's favorite quote about astrology
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