{"id":96012,"date":"2019-01-25T16:59:20","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T16:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astrologyexplored.net\/home\/?p=61880"},"modified":"2019-01-25T16:59:20","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T16:59:20","slug":"astrology-the-skeptics-theorville-misfires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/?p=96012","title":{"rendered":"#Astrology &amp; The #Skeptics: #TheOrville Misfires."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='640' height='390' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L2xgYnkPO8g?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;%23038;fs=1&#038;%23038;autohide=2&#038;%23038;showsearch=0&#038;%23038;showinfo=1&#038;%23038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;%23038;wmode=transparent' allowfullscreen='true' style='border:0;'><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><strong>(Astrology Explored)<\/strong> Seth MacFarlane misfires across the bow of astrology in January 24, 2019 episode &#8220;All the World&#8217;s a Birthday Cake&#8221; when Ed Mercer et. al make first contact with a pre-spaceflight society who SETI like, zapped an invitation for any and all to visit. What should have been a partee moment turned deadly serious when at a state dinner First Officer Kelly Grayson mentioned that next week was her birthday. You would have thought someone dropped one hundred cobras on the dinner table for the natives&#8217; reaction. Kelly and Bortus (who share the same birthday) are summarily arrested and put in a detention camp, while feckless Ed tries to figure out what caused the native&#8217;s reaction.<\/p>\n<p>Come to find out that Kelly and Bortus were born under the &#8220;Sign of the Geliac,&#8221; an astrological sign that is supposed to be dangerously violent. The society goes so far as to perform medically unnecessary c-section on mothers dangerously close to giving birth to a Geliac child, even if the procedure is dangerous to both mother and child.<br \/>\n<span id=\"more-61880\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>So finding out that Kelly and Bortus&#8217; arrest is based on &#8220;astrology&#8221; Ed begins his tautological rants against astrology. And that&#8217;s when I was out. The Orville isn&#8217;t the brightest star in the entertainment firmament, and I was put off at the inaccurate depiction of astrology.<\/p>\n<p>I promptly posted a tweet on my @starrynightastr account:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/astrologyexplored.net\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-25-at-11.32.10-AM.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-61885\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/astrologyexplored.net\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-25-at-11.32.10-AM.png?resize=560%2C131\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2019-01-25 at 11.32.10 AM\" width=\"560\" height=\"131\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-61885\" srcset=\"http:\/\/astrologyexplored.net\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-25-at-11.32.10-AM-300x70.png 300w, http:\/\/astrologyexplored.net\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-25-at-11.32.10-AM.png 592w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 592px) 100vw, 592px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t the only astrologer who objected. Ed Wollman had this to say on The Orville&#8217;s Twitter page:  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/astrologyexplored.net\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-25-at-10.56.42-AM.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-61879\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/astrologyexplored.net\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-25-at-10.56.42-AM.png?resize=560%2C282\" alt=\"Ed Wollman commenting on The Orville\" width=\"560\" height=\"282\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-61879\" srcset=\"http:\/\/astrologyexplored.net\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-25-at-10.56.42-AM-300x151.png 300w, http:\/\/astrologyexplored.net\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-25-at-10.56.42-AM-600x302.png 600w, http:\/\/astrologyexplored.net\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-25-at-10.56.42-AM.png 608w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 608px) 100vw, 608px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The strawman arguments against astrology <a href=http:\/\/astrologyexplored.net\/home\/?p=61880> have been knocked back<\/a> time and again, but they continue to percolate through the opinions of the uninformed, or worse, informed but closed minded. I don&#8217;t know which one Seth MacFarlane is, but clearly his shot across the bow misfired.  <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Astrology Explored) Seth MacFarlane misfires across the bow of astrology in January 24, 2019 episode &ldquo;All the World&rsquo;s a Birthday Cake&rdquo; when Ed Mercer et. al make first contact with a pre-spaceflight society who SETI like, zapped an invitation for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/astrologyexplored.net\/home\/?p=61880\">Continue reading <span>&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/?p=96012\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[647,3483,12349,3273,12350,13075],"class_list":["post-96012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-astrology","tag-astrology-and-the-calendar","tag-seth-macfarlane","tag-skeptics","tag-the-orville","tag-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pekXVE-oYA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96012"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96012"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105404,"href":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96012\/revisions\/105404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}