Wednesday, July 7, 2010

What Next?

"Octopus predicts World Cup! News at 11!"

First a groundhog and now a psychic octopus? This friendly sea creature predicted Spain would be in the semifinals.

"(CNN) -- German football fans' agony over Wednesday's loss to Spain in the World Cup semifinal was perhaps worsened by the knowledge that the result was predicted by an octopus.
Paul the octopus, a psychic cephalopod at Sea Life in Oberhausen, western Germany, has become a World Cup phenomenon after correctly predicting the victors in all six of Germany's matches. Tuesday's ceremony was carried live on German television.
Sea Life staff help Paul make his prediction by lowering two boxes of food into his tank, one with a German flag and the other bearing that of their opponents. The case he opens first is adjudged to be his predicted winner...

...But the cephalopod drew cries of despair from assembled watchers Tuesday when, after initially lingering over the box for the German flag, he plumped for the Spanish flag instead. But the octopus only managed an 80 percent success rate in predicting Germany's results at the 2008 European Championships.
He also failed to foresee Spain's 1-0 win over Germany in the final.
Spain will face the Netherlands Sunday in the World Cup Final."

Hmm, interesting... I wonder if it can predict the next winning lotto numbers?
Enjoy the article :-)

GO SPAIN!!

2 comments:

Posh Peach said...

That is hilarious! An octopus!?! Hehe.

Kara said...

I heard about this on NPR. So funny!