OK, try this one. The Pope announces to the world that we are not alone, and that the Vatican observatories have been tracking alien spacecraft for some time but don't panic, they're all good and they're coming to help us .

(April 4, 2016 at 6:31 am)AJW333 Wrote: OK, try this one. The Pope announces to the world that we are not alone, and that the Vatican observatories have been tracking alien spacecraft for some time but don't panic, they're all good and they're coming to help us .

The good news is: we are going to be overrun by space aliens

The bad news: they're not yet Catholic!

There shall be a great flood, I say! Not of water, but of Jelly proportions! And it shall be man-eating Jelly!

The Troubles erupt again in Northern Ireland.

(March 24, 2016 at 3:39 pm)The Atheist Wrote: I predict that things will happen.

I'm always predicting that things will happen, and then they don't.

Well, technically I didn't predict them then.

Okay I'm always trying to predict things will happen, and then they don't.

But that's specific things, if I attempt to predict that any things will happen, my attempt is guaranteed to succeed, because things happen all the time... just not necessarily anything specific that I might conceptualize in my mind.

#overlyanalyticalturtle

Yes, yes, I know this is a necropost, but it's important, so deal with it.

Quote:1. ISIS will suffer a series of major battlefield setbacks.

2. Assad will remain in power by promising modest reforms and actually delivering on some of them.

3. A comprehensive series of measures including (but not limited to) hybridization, new classes of pesticides and genetic 'tweaking' will arrest/reverse Colony Collapse Disorder, and the world honeybee population will begin to recover.

4. Concomitant with #3, we will see the start of a new Agricultural Revolution, in which GM crops will play a significant role in ameliorating word hunger.

5. A new species of primate will be discovered in the Indonesian archipelago.

6. Mick Jagger will die (and people will be stunned that it wasn't Keith Richards).

7. Organ transplants will become 100% effective - tissue rejection will cease to be an issue.

8. Sylvester Stallone will be nominated for an Academy Award for 'Creed' (he won't win).

9. An archeological find in Italy will add immensely to our knowledge of Etruscan culture.

10. Volkswagen will recover from the diesel-fixing scandal and will pass Toyota as the world's largest producer of motor vehicles.

I claim full marks for #s 1, 5, 8, 9 and 10. I claim half marks for #2. This gives me a score of 55% so far.

Suck it, Nostradamus.

Boru

I think I predicted the GOP would double down on batshit crazy.

I consider that a win.

This is the month for my prediction to come true. If the professor doesn't prove me right I will haz a big sad.

Trump will win the election.

Nationalism will continue to rise throughout Europe during the rest of 2016 and 2017 onwards.