Ode to John Lucas the visionary

[rocketpig]

Lingyis said:

Faxanadu said:
To those of you saying that he is wrong since its not at 20 million but at 19.5 million: get a life.

seriously, saying he was wrong because of such a small margin, especilly cause everyone always claiming he was a freak and out of his mind, I now find this: yes, but it missed by <500K a tad silly.

agreed. JL's 60 million prediction is also insane... but if it ends at around 55 million that's already a victory for JL. even anything above 50 million would be a victory, but if it's 55 million that to me is an outright victory.

So if he misses his low mark again it's a victory for him? I admit that his predictions are ballsy and this time, he came damned close. It should also be noted that this was also one of his more sane predictions and other predictions he has made have gone down in fiery infernos.

Either way, "visionary" is a bit over the top, don't you think? Pachter probably has the same batting average as JL.