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Re:Stars may collide in a “red nova” in 2022 by fsiefken on Sunday January 08, 2017 @06:31AM (#13349282)
As Halley's comet was regarded as an omen for the defeat of the Saxon king Harald and the 1006 bright supernova in Scorpio was regarded as a bad omen and was accompanied with wars and famine in both Europe and Arabia and the 1997 Hale-Bopp comet resulted in the Heaven's Gate suicides, I wonder how astrologers or all kinds of semi-religious groups would regards this upcoming spectacle. Tycho Brahe predicted succesfully that the 1572 supernova would herald the decline of the Roman Catholic Church. What will happen in 2022, a New World Order... or another day of the Triffids?

http://www.astro.com/astrology/aa_article141030_e.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stars_in_astrology

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Re:Stars may collide in a “red nova” in 2022 by Cpoll on Monday January 09, 2017 @11:15AM (#13357388)
You said it yourself though; we've gone from "bad omen blamed for catastrophic event" to "a handful of cult members committed suicide".

With that extrapolation, I can't imagine this will be the catalyst for much.

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Re:Stars may collide in a “red nova” in 2022 by daveguy on Sunday January 08, 2017 @04:00PM (#13351986)
Good point. I think that depends entirely on how batshit crazy the human response is. Hopefully very little, but 5 years is plenty of time for people to come up with some self fulfilling prophecies / build a cult.
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