plus the nature of the "predictions" themselves is bogus. So some numbers exhibited a random pattern. It's real easy to look into the past and see something that could be a "predicter" of something that happened.
i.e. "The cloud looked sorta like Mickey Mouse a week before Walt Disney died. Therefore the clouds must have been predicting his death."
The ability to predict the future would only be useful if those predictions could be noticed BEFORE the future happens
