Talk:Famous predictions

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This shows bias:

" ... and importance of sustainable development has since become generally accepted"


That is false, and the sentence that phrase belongs to should be deleted.


The more I read the page of famous predictions, the more I think it should be deleted. It shows a big POV problem.

There, I solved the problem by deleting the whole thing.

I'm confused here. This looks more like famous futurist books, and others, rather than famous predictions. Plus the talk page says it's deleted. I'd like to add something, but I'm worried it won't fit whatever the heck this is about.--T. Anthony 03:29, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

Nothing about Nostradamus! --Smiley77 13:45, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

Contents

[edit] So many links

It appears someone has had the goal of making every single word in this article a link to something else. --Xyzzyplugh 04:28, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

I never understood the reasoning behind linking every single word in a Wikipedia article, especially "common" words. - Nhprman List 17:57, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Many problems with this article

This isn't really an article, it should actually be called List of famous predictions, it's clearly a list. Furthermore, many of the items in the list aren't predictions at all. I'm going to remove a bunch of them. --Xyzzyplugh 04:37, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

That seems like a drastic step. Care to discuss this first? Which ones (or which kinds of links) do you find aren't actually predictions? - Nhprman List 17:59, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
I already removed them. None of them are predictions, famous or otherwise. I removed:
Famous Experiments - comprehensive list of successful and failed experiments (and the associated predictions)
Natural disasters - often they are predicted, but famous examples such as Pompei were not
Man-made disasters - Chernobyl being a good example of an accident that could have been predicted
Future - contains an introductory piece
Meaning of life - what is it all about, anyway?
Eschatology - part philosophy, part religion. Where did we come from, how will it end?
Fatalism - the Que sera, sera school of philosophy
Determinism - it's all about causality, and there is no free will
The Future of Man, by French philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. Predicts a teleogical future of the Omega point and the noosphere
Famous photographer in the near future, top photographers

[edit] More interesting?

A much more interesting page would be List of famous predictions that actually came true or something like that. This list is too speculative, by definition, and anything anyone ever said could belong in it. Wouter Lievens 15:00, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mercury

This is false: "Anomalies in observations of Mercury's orbit were predicted by Einstein"

The Mercury's orbital anomalies were known long before Einstein. This is how the planet Vulcan was invented, and even once discovered!

Einstein's special relativity explained these anomalies without extra mass.

-- 212.213.204.99 21:29, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Correct. General Relativity explained the precession of Mercury's orbit, but did not predict it. However, it did predict the gravitational bending of light, which was verified by Eddington.