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Originally Posted by M.D. Holloway
Interesting but why such a fascination with the position of the stars and planets and the phases of the moon?
If you are that techno advanced surely you would know that these astro bodies play little of any role in daily affairs.
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I think all you have to do is look at any one of the many watch threads in this forum to understand the fascination with time pieces.
Guys will spend all sorts of coin on the latest gizmo, and back in the day this thing was tops, way better than the latest i-phone.