Jucelino Nobrega da Luz: A major earthquake will hit Nagoya tomorrow
Jucelino Nobrega da Luz, the Brazilian “psychic” who wowed Japanese TV audiences with fraudulent claims of predicting major history events, has announced that a major earthquake will hit Nagoya on September 14th. Seek Japan ran an article about the prediction:
Walk around Nagoya this week and it will be almost impossible to miss the topic on everybody’s mind.
Yes, the big, long overdue earthquake has been predicted to strike Aichi this coming weekend.
A Brazillian with a habit of accurately predicting historical events has predicted it to hit Nagoya with a bang on September 14. This guy is not to be laughed at; he has a 90% accuracy rate and one of his successful predictions includes September 11th, the day America was attacked.
Of course, the article is wrong. Jucelino Nobrega da Luz does not have a 90% accuracy rate and his “successful prediction” of the September 11th attacks was announced after the attacks took place, using forged letters as proof. Unfortunately, an irresponsible Japanese TV network gave credibility to his claims by airing a special in December 2007 introducing his “true” predictions. The special failed to note that most of the “predictions” it mentioned has been debunked, and now this man’s lies are freely circulating in Nagoya.
It is highly doubtful that an earthquake will hit Nagoya tomorrow, but that won’t matter for Jucelino Nobrega da Luz followers. They’ll just ignore the 1000 km distance between Nagoya and Hokkaido and announce that his prediction actually referred to the earthquake that hit Hokkaido earlier this week. (If I recall correctly, they’ve already claimed that a previous false prediction about an earthquake hitting Osaka was actually meant to refer to an earthquake that hit Niigata at a later date!)
Update: 3Yen’s News blog reports that he has also predicted a magnitude 9.1 quake will hit Tokyo today!
Update 2: There was a magnitude 3.1 earthquake in Niigata Prefecture today. It was several hundred kilometers away from the location he predicted, and many many times weaker than the massive quake he claimed was going to happen, but his fans will stretch this into a victory.
[Story via social linking site JapanSoc]
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If this guy’s predictions are true, then you’ll probably see me suing him for endangering national security and misinformation.
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Pseudoscience
Count the way-off-the-target hits and ignore the misses.
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If you make enough predictions, one of them is bound to come true.
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I can predict historical events too. I predict…wait, I see it now. A major earthquake will strike Tokyo on Sept 1, 1923….
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Don’t try to claim credit for the predictions I made in my past lives, FOOL!
My prediction of the Geart Quake was published for all to see in April 1924 under the name Takeshi de la Luzer von Dingledanger of Ulm nee Jaggof, it would have been earlier but there were printing problems. However, I have a signed stamped certificate of authenticity to accompany my original manuscript which was clearly backdat-…ahem, DATED June 31, 1923. SO THERE!!!
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This guy needs to get deported.
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Well, if ridiculousness was justifiable grounds for deporting someone, there’d be a lot fewer foreigners in Japan.
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Well played good sir!
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Guys, I don’t think he lives in Japan.
Still, this is the same guy who predicted a magnitude 8 earthquake would strike the Philippines last month,as circulated by chain email.
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Washed-up, debunked and discredited “psychics” from the West can always find a home here.
Woo-woo!
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It doesn’t take a psychic to predict earthquakes in Japan. Next he’ll predict a hurricane in the Gulf Coast.
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I predict.
Mr. da Luzer will eventually be audited by the tax office.
[Of course it is just a cover by the World Shadow Government to silence him, or maybe the aliens, it's not coming to me right now.]
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OK, the REAL prediction.
Osaka will have 4 significant snowfalls this winter.
Accumulations even in the Umeda of over 5cm during one of those.
[For those who don't live in Osaka, it basically doesn't snow here, or maybe once a year but it doesn't stick.]
Look this thread up in February 2009.
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10 minutes to go for the “big Tokyo Earthquake”… tic tac tic tac tic tac
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what a douche
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This is just as pathetic as people on the internet who guess a score for a football match and then actually get gain some sort of ego boost when they happen to be correct.
Although, this guy now just looks an even bigger idiot.
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Oh well, this must have been his other 10%, right?;)
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Nobody can predict things like a prophet does. I dont waste my time to listen to this guy.
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I predict the next big Anime to hit the USA will be….NARUTO!!
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