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A 13th zodiac sign ?! ROFL !!

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There seems to be a lot of confusion about the 13th zodiac sign Ophiuchus; whether it should be included into the current system, whether it changes everything someone has been believing (or ridiculing) all these days and importantly, is it going to change something. As a person with a lot of curiosity in astrophysics, I will attempt to answer some of these questions. Earth's elliptical orbit around the sun can be divided into 12 different energy zones. People born under the influence of one particular energy zone tend to have similar characteristics and behavioral aspects. To distinguish the different set of personalities, they were identified with the constellation that portrayed their characteristics. For example, people born under the 7th energy level were mostly observed to be very diplomatic, these people keep a good balance in whatever they do in life. So they are identified by the constellation 'Libra' (The Scales). Each constellation is just a portrayal of a set o...

Leaving our footprints

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Happy New Year everyone. My hearty wishes and prayers for the coming days to bring us the best of everything. It was fun time at New Year midnight in Stockholm, standing in the city-centre in spite of a heavy snowfall and watching the fireworks with friends. After all that fun, it was an amazing experience to walk home on fresh snow with stray fireworks illuminating the sky at random. I noticed the very distinct footprints I left on snow and started thinking: 'Nice. Ooh, are my tracks straight ? Perhaps too straight for someone to think an army person walked by ? Ok, should I make it a bit zig-zag so that it appears natural ? No, people may think these are a drunken guy's tracks. Lemme stop and look back how my tracks are. Aargh, it shows that I stopped here and turned back. Damn, people will think I carefully orchestred my tracks....' Why was I so concerned about my foot-prints on snow ? Come another snowfall, those tracks will vanish. But how about impressions that last f...