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rjh01 said:
86a the US will fall off the fiscal cliff. However this will not be the end of the world.
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Looks like I am on a winner here. One many people did not predict. The Chinese Government should be in a panic soon when their money is not repaid on the due date by the USA government.

Unlike other predictions in this thread (and elsewhere!), this is a highly specific prediction.

Edit. It also is one that at the start of the year a low probability of being true.
 
All life will drown in highly toxic "star jelly" due to the sun emitting "abnormal" magnetic inflections of a resonant frequency to the earth that attracts extraterrestrial jellyfish by mimicking their mating call. After the jelly sublimates, a miasma of greenhouse gasses will envelope the earth effectively terraforming it akin to Venus.


Am I making enough logical jumps and throwing around plenty of abused terms?
 
MechAlucard said:
All life will drown in highly toxic "star jelly" due to the sun emitting "abnormal" magnetic inflections of a resonant frequency to the earth that attracts extraterrestrial jellyfish by mimicking their mating call. After the jelly sublimates, a miasma of greenhouse gasses will envelope the earth effectively terraforming it akin to Venus.


Am I making enough logical jumps and throwing around plenty of abused terms?
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You missed "quantum". :)
 
Brown said:
30. The sequel to "Anchorman" will be a hit at the box office ... but it will be widely recognized as inferior to the original.
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Too early to call this one a hit or a miss, except to note that it was NOT established when the prediction was made that the sequel would actually come out in 2013, which was the time frame for the prediction. An LA Times columnist, meanwhile, wonders: Can Will Ferrell really top the original?
[A] new trailer for the Dec 20 release, which hit the web Wednesday, raises the question: Can the 2004 original really be topped?

For years, Paramount Pictures was hesitant to make a sequel to "Anchorman" .... The trailer features the same kind of over-the-top, quasi-moronic gags seen in the original.... But does it all have the potential to go down in one-liner history, forever to be quoted by frat bros?
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IMST said:
84. Marriage equality will come to the UK, France and Uruguay, as well as Illinois, Rhode Island and California in the US.
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Pending the Governor's promised signature, Illinois has finally gotten marriage equality done today. With that, I've got all 6 I predicted.
 
Brown said:
25. The 50th Anniversary of the JFK assassination will bring conspiracy "theories" out into the open, tales and scenarios even more bizarre than many heard before, and some in the media will deal with them as if the proponents were serious historians.
25a. At least one reporter will report that it is an established fact that JFK was shot from the front.
25b. At least two new documentaries will air that support the single-shooter scenario.
25c. Someone will give airtime to a commentator who will say this or something close to it: "It's been fifty years; it's time for the government to come clean."
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There have been, by my count, three new "documentary" reports (some of theme special segments in news broadcasts) that support the single-shooter scenario. There has been at least two "news" reports that, though conspiracy-oriented (and riddled with errors and absurdities), support the notion that Kennedy and Connally were hit by a single bullet.

The following is from the Orlando Sentinel:
As we approach the 50th anniversary of the assassination of this country's 35th president, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, we see and feel an ever-increasing need for this country to get back to the values and ideals that made us the greatest country in the world.
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It is time to make a stand against the national security state that President Eisenhower, President Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King warned us about. It is time for our government to come clean with its people. (emphasis mine)
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I have not so far seen anyone report as established fact that there were shots from the front; but there have been reports that witnesses SAID there were shots from the front. In addition, there have been people interviewed who have opined that there is no doubt that shots came from the front.
 
The Fifth Estate, an otherwise credible Canadian news program, almost came out and reported that there HAD been a shot from the front.

The only experts interviewed were the loopy ones, including David Lifton. There was not one word about the Nova episode in which the actual Dallas doctors said in effect that Lifton's thesis was crap.

The Fifth Estate was guilty of dozens of errors, some of them howlers. This program's credibility really took a dive today.
 
almost doa

An ex-member of a popular 90's rock band will have a near death experience.
 
xtifr said:
65. The US Supreme Court will agree to hear a major case involving a software patent. They will rule that the patent is invalid, but it will be on much more narrow grounds than the opposition was hoping for.
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Maybe cutting it close, but this could be the one. Of course, a final decision is unlikely to be reached this year, but they did agree to hear it this year. If I'm right about the narrow grounds in the final decision, I think I'll call this a hit.
 
Brown said:
30. The sequel to "Anchorman" will be a hit at the box office ... but it will be widely recognized as inferior to the original.
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I was right, dead-on. When I made this prediction, it was not even a sure thing that there would even BE a sequel in 2014. The sequel had been announced, but a release date was not not made public until much later.

Although the movie has not hit the number one spot (and almost certainly never will), the movie made a respectable showing in the past two weeks. The movie still has yet to make back its $50 million cost of production, however. (At the time it was made, "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" was the most expensive movie ever, and cost $48 million to make... in 1978 dollars. "Trek," of course, was top-heavy with special effects. "Anchorman 2" cost over $50 million to make, in 2013 dollars.) Conventional wisdom is that the gross must be at least twice the cost for a movie to make money, and the current gross for "Anchorman 2" is about $84 million.

And almost every major review has commented that the sequel is not as good (to use the term loosely) as the original. Exactly as I predicted.

Once again, I say to all the self-proclaimed psychics out there: BEAT THAT!
 
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IMST said:
80. An assassination attempt on Barack Obama will fail, but make public headlines.
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No by real standards, but there was a hell of a lot of imagery that was used by the right in the budget and debt ceiling fights that I'd use to claim a hit if I were playing this like a psychic.

81. A Pacific earthquake will cause damage in the Phillipines due to tsunami.
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It wasn't a tsunami, but regretfully this one looks pretty accurate otherwise. It'd be no problem to interpret it as a big hit were "the details were a too fuzzy" or some other such nonsense.

82. The conflict in Sudan will flare back up, with effective, but undeclared war between Sudan and South Sudan.
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Sadly, this one seems to be true if I've been hearing bits of news pieces correctly.

83. A prominent member of the British Royal Family will die.
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Huh. Quite the opposite, really.

84. Marriage equality will come to the UK, France and Uruguay, as well as Illinois, Rhode Island and California in the US.
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100% on the 6 predictions in this one.
 
Once again, many of the predictions made in this thread came to pass. Some of the predictions were trivial, of course, and some were not meant seriously; but many of them were made in apparent earnest and seemed to predict the events of 2013. Each of these in-earnest predictions was an actual prediction and was placed in the public record on this forum prior to the events in question.

I have tried to point out some of my hits, as news reports confirmed them.

From among my own predictions, I point out the following as being the most spectacular:

"North Korea will be found to have a surprising ally." Did this ever come true, and wow, was it a surprise to a lot of people. The ally was Dennis Rodman, and this story was one of the biggest of the year, and it is still a big story today.

"The sequel to 'Anchorman' will be a hit at the box office ... but it will be widely recognized as inferior to the original." Dead on right.

"President Obama's second term will get off to a difficult start." Did it ever. The first year of his second term is generally regarded as his worst year, so far. This is another big news story of 2013.

"A prominent figure will announce retirement in the first half of the year."
"A person whose name includes an 'X' will make big news."
"One known more by his title than his name shall cross the river."
In perhaps the most surprising story of 2013, Pope Benedict XVI (a man known more by his title than his name, and whose official name includes an "X"), perhaps the most prominent figure in the world, announced his retirement. Upon stepping down, he boarded a helicopter and flew across the Tiber River to Castel Gandolfo, about 15 miles southeast of Rome.

So once again, let it be said: predicting the future, even predicting some very surprising events and big news stories, does not require any paranormal, occult or supernatural ability. In fact, it isn't all that hard to do.
 
According to some news sources, researchers "investigated" time travel to see whether anyone predicted the ascension of the new pope in 2013, and found that no one did.

They only checked Twitter, however, and overlooked this forum; their time frame also did not overlap ours; and their search terms may have been very restrictive (looking specifically for the name "Francis," for example).

One wonders whether an "investigation" like this may be repeated, and whether predictions on this forum might raise a few eyebrows.
 
Astreja said:
Neither Billy Graham nor Fred Phelps will make it through to 2014, and Pat Robertson will develop a nervous tic of looking over his right shoulder just in case someone is COMING FOR HIM. (Apologies to Terry Pratchett, Death and Binky)
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Graham and Phelps still going, but Paul Crouch and Harold Camping are gone.

The 50th Anniversary of Dr. Who will be taken more seriously than the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy Assassination Conspiracy Theories (although not quite as seriously as the anniversary of the assassination itself).
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As predicted.

A 7+ magnitude earthquake will hit Iran, trapping Mahmoud Ahmadinejad under his own ego for a week before he asks for outside help.
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7.8 magnitude earthquake in Iran on April 16, 2013. Ahmadinejad did exhibit odd behaviour -- He got roundly criticized for traipsing off to Ghana for two days rather than staying in Iran to deal with the aftermath of the quake.
 
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