#3165: Earthquake Prediction Flowchart
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[Caption above a flowchart:]
Someone is claiming to predict the exact date of a future earthquake.
Should you listen?
[At the top of the flowchart is a wide diamond with the following text:]
Start
[An arrow points down to a rectangle with the following text:]
NO
(There are big earthquakes constantly, so if anyone ever does figure this out, it will be immediately obvious that their method works and the world's seismologists will not shut up about it.
You won't need this flowchart.)
(Sourced from explainxkcd.com)
Title text:At least people who make religious predictions of the apocalypse have an answer to the question 'Why didn't you predict any of the other ones that happened recently?'