The Next Wave

Whale Got an email the other day that warns of another tsunami predicted to hit us between the date of 13/4 to 15/4. Ironically, the email reached me a day after that, on the 16th. Thought that was supposed to be a warning. Looks more like a confirmation that whoever made that prediction is either a very unsuccessful fortune-teller or a prankster who has nowhere to direct his pethatic sense of humour. But credits has to be given to this dumb friend of mine who 'accidentally' forwarded this mail to me without considering the contents in it.

Can't really blame him, huh. We're so used to it. I would even go so far as to say that almost all of us have had the experience of mindlessly forwarding mails without giving thoughts whether it's contents suits all the recipients in our forward list, or whether the email is seriously outdated. It shows, once again, that computers can really make us dumber.

But then again, what would you do if you got an unconfirmed warning like that? Would you go around spreading the warning to your friends too? I had the fortune to make myself seriously ponder upon that question when I recieved an sms warning of tsunami a few weeks before the email.

And I did. I forwarded the sms to a few of my closest friends and colleagues in Penang. Stupid or better safe than sorry? What are you gonna do? Spank me?! But of course, nothing happened, no tsunami, no nothing. Didn't even rain. Now, I'm seriously considering what I would do if I recieve any sms of that sort in the future. For anyone who invented these warnings as a prank, it aint funny. I wasted probably fifty cents on sms. Fifty cents!!

Back to the prediction of tsunami. It seems some parts of the email is worthy of serious consideration:

'1. The person who predicted 1st Tsunami is predicting that there
would be another one between 13th and 15th April caused by another
earthquake.
2. Animal could sense things much earlier than us. Yesterday's news
reported all the sea cucumber came out of the sea in PD and whales were out
somewhere in Australia.
3. Sea experts say that there will be another earthquake happening
at the same spot to balance the imbalance caused by the 1st earthquake.'

Now the first tsunami that hit us in Dec was actually foretold by an Indian professor, based on the observation of a mass beaching and deaths of whales and dolphins on an Australian beach. Now that would give logic to point no.2.

Three weeks before the earthquake off Indonesia, Dr Arunachalam Kumar, professor of anatomy at Kasturba Medical College at Mangalore in Karnataka, posted a note about a recent whale-stranding in Tasmania, and its possible implications, on a "listserve", an e-mail distributor, hosted by Princeton University. Read more here.

How true are the logic behind this? Let's hope he doesn't have to predict another tsunami for us to find out. And for all my dear friends who forward me emails. Thank you, I appreciate all your mails but mind putting your thinking cap on and at least read through the mail before you hit the 'forward' button?