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RedOrbit - Science - Can This Black Box See Into the Future?

I'm not even going to pretend like I'm qualified to have a serious opinion on this topic. Some obvious things come to mind, like how it's easy to find an event which may trigger high readings in our world, where events everywhere are available almost immediately to anyone interested in news. Also, I'm not sure about the hypothesis that it's actually predicting things, since it would also be easy to say, hm, I wonder why it's registering highly, then finding some event to explain it after the fact.

Bear in mind, I'm a cynical asshole.

Then again, these are some pretty big-name scientists behind this, and definitely not hacks. I checked out their website, and they are very open about their experiment and its results. So I have to defer to their greater knowledge of, well, just about everything.

At any rate, wouldn't it be cool (and a little freaky) if this worked? They'd have to keep a close eye on it, though. If the government thought it could use this technology in some way, they sure would in a heartbeat. That's never a good thing.

At any rate, whether the hypothesis is correct or not, it's interesting reading.