Are the NASA announcement and webbot prediction linked?

I haven't posted a thread for a while and there is good reason for that. A thought occorred to me today while browsing ATS. What if the NASA announcement tomorrow and the webbot prediction are linked? Maybe whatever NASA has found is going to be the catalyst for the change forcast by webbot.

Really, I don't think much of the webbot and the mechanism behind the way it gatheres information but reality is just too bizzare to presume through arrogance that we can say for certain that any two given events aren't linked.

So I thought it best to bring this idea to the attention of ATS and gather other people's opinions. Am I being completely illogical here or is there a chance that NASA have found something of great importance, that the webbot does accurately predict future trends and events and that the prediction's fruition is reliant on the discovery which has yet to be announced?

Food for thought if nothing else.

Could definately be, then again they make anouncements all the time

reply to post by Chonx

Am I being completely illogical here or is there a chance that NASA have found something of great importance,

It probably has but what does that have to do with the webbot. (I have no idea what it is predicting by the way)

... that the webbot does accurately predict future trends and events and that the prediction's fruition is reliant on the discovery which has yet to be announced?

The webbot can only 'predict' what is being talked about on the web. It is an algorithm not a prophet. Think of it like the NSA 'listening' for a word like 'bomb' (drat now I have done it this post will be added to the list by the web bot/NSA)

The more people talk about something the heavier weighting it has. It is a sort of self fulfilling system really. It certainly does not and cannot in any way predict the future. ALL it can do is trawl the web for phrases and weight them accordingly.

reply to post by PuterMan


I know, and I totally understand what you're saying. It's just that recently it seems, to me anyway, that the things which I accept as solid and unmovable, like the notion of causality and logic, have been undermined. My usually, scientifically founded outlook has been somewhat cracked. Due to this I've found myself thinking differently and this an example of this. It is probably nothing but I felt compelled to post, so I did.

All it is, is that NASA had to work over the weekend to explain the electron clouds above and below the galactic centre.
It's just gonna be "we conclude they are a result of the super-massive black-hole/s in the galactic nucleus".
End of story.

reply to post by myster0


Are you saying that is definatley what the announcement will be or is that your guess? You may well be right but you can't say anything for certain right?

reply to post by myster0


Also, the 'electron clouds' are actually gamma ray bubbles for want of a better description....

I know, I'm a pedant..

I had the same thought regarding the NASA announcement tomorrow and posted this to the webbot threads. Alas, we'll have to wait 'till tomorrow to find out. The black hole thing is probably the announcement in my opinion.

Am I right in thinking that it's only so far been a theory that there's a supermassive blackhole at the center of our galaxy?

reply to post by this_is_who_we_are


yes and no. It's proven to some extent by the movement of stars close to the galactic centre moving faster than models without a supermassive black hole suggest but not proven proven... if you see what I mean. I think it may be more likely that they have found a steller-mass black hole roaming around in the galaxy nearby somewhere

From the NASA website:

Fermi
Fermi Telescope Finds Giant Structure in Our Galaxy. NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has unveiled a previously unseen structure centered in the Milky Way. The feature spans 50,000 light-years and may be the remnant of an eruption from a supersized black hole.

So I believe that probably is the announcement, and the the web-bot/timewave speculation is not related.

reply to post by markymint


But the announcement is because of something which was found with the Chandra telescope, which sees in X-rays not gamma rays.....

and the the web-bot/timewave speculation is not related.

and there is no way you can say that with absolute certainty...