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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;treehugger, post: 1294453, member: 28451&quot;]Threads like this are always amusing.&nbsp;&nbsp; There is no person alive we know of who can consistently predict the future.&nbsp;&nbsp; We do not know what will happen with certainty until it actually happens.&nbsp;&nbsp; You can draw upon statistics, past behavior, etc., etc., all you want, but it still will not give you certainty.</p><p><br /></p><p>Look at some recent examples.&nbsp;&nbsp; Did any baseball expert give the Cardinals any chance of winning the World Series this year when the playoffs began?&nbsp;&nbsp; No.&nbsp;&nbsp; Hurricane experts predicted an active Atlantic season this year because of a number of factors that were different than last year.&nbsp;&nbsp; Did we have an active season?&nbsp;&nbsp; No.&nbsp;&nbsp; Experts are valuable, but only to explain what has already happened, not to predict what will happen.</p><p><br /></p><p>The only benefit of predicting is it provides cheap entertainment.&nbsp;&nbsp; Predict all you want, but remember the old saying, &quot;Opinions are like a-holes; everybody has 1 and they all stink.&quot;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>We will know the future price of silver in the future.&nbsp;&nbsp; It may be $7.00 an ounce or it may be $70.00 an ounce.&nbsp;&nbsp; Regardless of what we may think or what we may know or what we may think we know, either is a possibility.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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