johndoe

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TIL that retired chemist, Khonghao Shou, predicted the 2003 earthquake in Bam, Iran by observing cloud formations. (lemm.ee)
 

He not only predicted the approximate date, but also the magnitude and epicenter.

His method (cloud formations) is not widely accepted by the scientific community. Perhaps because his geological and meteorological skills are self-taught. He claims a prediction success rate >60%, and that it would be higher if he had better access to satellite imagery.

I first heard of him in The Cloudspotter's Guide, then I found these links:

https://www.varsity.co.uk/science/19876

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feart.2022.812540/full

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2doixJulTP4

Policy for administration, moderation, federation in c/meta@lemm.ee
[–] johndoe@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A 2:1 bot-to-user ratio seems like a high tolerance of bots. I don't know anything about bots, but doesn't fewer=better? Is there some logic behind this threshold?

How do you older Lemmy users feel about the large influx of reddit users? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] johndoe@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago (18 children)

My lemmy-age is 1 day (newborn). Serious question... just how old are the lemmy ancients?

Is Lemmy your first time on the Fediverse? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] johndoe@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes... just signed up. I had never heard of Fediverse until 3 days ago. I spent the past 2 days reading up on it and bam, here I am. I remember a lot of chatter about mastodon after Elon stuck his head up his ass but didn't pay attention. I glad to see a lot of people here (smarter than me) are as confused as I am. This will be so fun to watch this evolve.