12.11.2008

Urban Survival: Quake watch on, hoping to be wrong

Thanks to George Noory, who was kind enough to have my on Coast to Coast AM for a few minutes last night. As I told him, Cliff at www.halfpasthuman.com and I hope Cliff's linguistic projections of a major earthquake are wrong, but since the technology has accurately given good lead times on other events, it wouldn't be surprising to see 'breaking news' about a major earthquake on the news channels & news crawlers in the next day or three.

By the way, the full moon of tomorrow is the biggest and brightest of the year - good piece on the 'super moon' on the NASA web site here.

Meantime, we understand there's some discussion out of Singapore about putting a similar predictive linguistics project together. Oh, not similar in funding - instead of a garage/part-time project by a couple of nutjobs, theirs is government monied and of a larger scale. We understand it will be called DiANE - a digital analysis network environment - and may give Singaporean government types a heads up on big 'emotional shocks' in the future. We're waiting for a copy of the working paper (in Chinese).


Unfortunately, the lifespan of a project like this could be limited by the new 'political correctness' software that may change words being displayed off discussion groups and such to reduce the sometimes inflammatory (and yeah, maybe even the odd terrorism discussion) on the 'net. Seems you can't get it both ways in the digital world...


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