Does anyone else picture a basketballer smacking down the graph when this happens or is that just me 😂

Unfortunately, I'm not a better artist so that's what I came up with.

Anyway the sky is really nice tonight and I thought about those Mars missions and how Mars is really close to us right now and the most recent political unrest. Turns out we're around one of those times every 27ish months called an opposition (source) where Mars is, on average, either at its closest or farthest from Earth. The particular opposition that occurred in October was at the peak of another 15 to 17 year cycle (source) of being extra close. In August 2003, there was an extra-extra-closest opposition event that occurs once every 79 years (source). I bet you can keep zooming out to see different patterns, too, because that's how graphing stuff tends to work.

Earthsky.org/NASA is also the thumbnail image source, by the way.

You'll know all about patterns if you're a trader, I imagine. If it's never occurred to you, play with the cool CoinGecko widget below a little, but also note that the entire history of digital things as we know them is less than 200 years and digital token currency less than 20. This is a good article about the history of credit if you want to go down that rabbit hole.

Five leading blockchain tokens are graphed above for no particular reason. Use the log function to compare them qualitatively.

But yeah, the Mars thing makes a lot of  sense given all the intense conflict. The closest opposition on the local timeline was in August 2003 and there was a lot of conflict at that time too. I mean maybe there's just always some sort of human conflict and it's a coincidence, but maybe not.

Don't neglect the planets and the stars either way. The idea of massive gravitational Gods in the sky is kind of completely valid according to science, too, just maybe described with different words.

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