Precession on the Joe Rogan Experience
2 fact-checked claims across 2 episodes · Apr 2024 to Oct 2024
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“now it's Polaris because the extended north pole of the Earth is spiraling in the heavens and it's pointing at different bits of space over a roughly 26,000 ye…”
The precession of the equinoxes completes a cycle of about 25,920 years, with one degree taking 72 years.
“and that time is around 12,600 years ago. It's not a single moment, it's an epoch of several hundred years. But the constellation of Leo, it was the age of Leo…”
Hancock claims the constellation Leo housed the rising sun at the spring equinox around 12,600 years ago, aligning with the lion-shaped Sphinx.