November 28, 2006
George Ure
Last week, both www.urbansurvival.com and www.halfpasthuman.com did something extraordinary - we issued a warning about an imminent "9.5 earthquake" which looked, with our time-scanning technology, like it would be accompanied by some undersea volcanic action. Today, we are able to relax the advisory and point to the high immediacy value events which triggered the alert.
First, we got the emotional reality of a 9.5 quake when folks in Hawaii started reacting to rumors of a pending 9.0-9.5 quake - and the rumors were widely played up on Hawaiian television and other news outlets.
Secondly, there has been concurrent publicity concerning a large-scale undersea volcanic eruption going on 1.5 miles under the Pacific. Combine the two events, the tsunami rumors in Hawaii causing hundreds to panic and the undersea volcanic action now in headlines and it all fits neatly with what was forecast.
The events underscore the difficulty of using technology to peer into the future. Language is a tricky enough thing by itself, but to divine the future by "reverse engineering" global use does press the limits of radical linguistics. Nevertheless, the technology is extremely sensitive to shifts in language that seem to precede events, and we're comfortable today relaxing the warning issued last week.
So much for the good news. Just a preliminary take on the data coming in, both for the private run and the ALTA 907 series now underway, suggests that by the time December of 2007 gets here, the emotional release expected would be of the size we'd expect from something like regional nuclear war, or a not-just-emotional-headlines about a 9.5 quake. But, that's a year off, although when employment crashed in mid to late 2007, you might want to have a new career lined up, or play to join a self-organizing collective of some kind.
As we've explained before, this looking into the future with language is something entirely new, and we haven't got an instruction book for how to do it. We're writing the rule sets for its operation as we go.
This present case spawns a new rule that might go something like this: "When extremely high immediacy values suggest something imminent and catastrophic, unless confirmed by longer term carry values, and ideally by some elevation in body part references [which tend to indicate injury or death to humans], the event may pop into conscious reality as a pseudo-event; e.g. one of emotional values only...exemplified in this case by the Hawaii tsunami rumors.
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December 2007 we have a very interesting planetary alignment coming which might put exceptional stresses on earth. And <http://camel.he.net/~syzygyq/new_site/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=35&topic=245026.0>yes, there are other technologies which have not relaxed concern in the present window. Still, I think it's safe to say from our perspective that the next big "quake worry" of the life altering/ending variety is not till next December. The long term values are accreting for that, and considering Banda Aceh's 9.3 gave us 4-months of lead time, a quake with 12∏ months of lead time might be reasonably assumed to be many times worse.
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