 What does Niemand intend to communicate through referencing the line from Julius Caesar?
This, be it understood, is fiction—nothing but fiction—and not, under any circumstances, to be considered as having any truth whatever to it. These implications are discussed here in an exclusive interview with Dr. Niemand by Philip Latham. I suppose you might say my main job today is to find out all I can between activity on the Sun and various forms of activity on the Earth. What do you mean by activity on the Sun? NIEMAND. It means you can only approximately predict the future course of sunspot activity. Let's see ... remember that speech from "Julius Caesar" where Cassius is bewailing the evil times that beset ancient Rome? In the Sun? NIEMAND. Philosophers have wrestled with it ever since the days of Job.
 We are not as in control of our behavior as we would like to think
 Sunspot-related disturbances have been negatively impacting humans prior to the Roman empire  We are more in control of our behavior than we think  Sunspot-related disturbances have been negatively impacting humans prior to the Middle Ages  We are not as in control of our behavior as we would like to think