I can make a bunch of predictions of doomsday in some very archaic terms, open it 1000 years from now and some if not all of it will seem to have occured. It's just a matter of statistics. If you put things in an ambiguous enough manner, it can be interpreted to mean just about anything you want. So he says he saw a big bird hits a tower, so people say oh that must be 9/11, while in fact he was sitting outside the cathedral and a bird just flew into the tower.
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To add to Geoff's statement about the History Channel. I must say that I used to watch that channel a lot. Here's an example of some sloppy programming on that channel. You see I'm somewhat of an expert in archery, recently I saw a show where they claimed that the Mongols used to shoot bows with arrows moving at 300 fps. I know for a fact that that is impossible. Some modern hunting compounds don't even go that fast. I've seen war arrows being shot out of a 95 lbs mongolian bow, they go at around 180 fps. So there you have it, don't believe everything you see on TV, specially that channel.