Did Nostradamus Predict the Columbia Tragedy? Much in the same way that prophecies flew around the Internet like maddened crows shortly after September 11, 2001, the tragic destruction of the space shuttle Columbia on February 1, 2003 unleashed another round of associations with the predicitons made by the seer of St.Remy. Puerto Rican philosopher and author Jaime Marcano Monta¤ez claims to have found a mention of the Columbia's sad and unexpected demise in the following Quatrain:
New rain, sudden and impetuous Shall suddenly thwart the two armies; Stone, sky, fires make the sea stony, The death of seven, earth and land sudden.
Professor Marcano leafed through his copy of The Centuries only minutes after having witnessed the fiery trail of the disintegrating shuttle on his television set. Page 81 of his edition, he told reporters from the Primera Hora newspaper, found the quatrain transcribed above, which could be construed as "a warning to humanity" in the scholar own words. Marcano interprets that the "new rain, sudden and impetuous" makes reference to Columbia's trail of debris across the American southwest, covering a 1,300 kilometer swath from California to Texas and the Louisiana state line. The professor believes that the second line of the quatrain, involving armies being "suddenly thwarted" is the most significant, given that the entire world is at the brink of an armed conflict between the U.S. and Iraq. Furthermore, the "death of seven" would refer to the loss of the space travelers involved in STS-107. "I was surprised," Marcano told reporters, "about the detail regarding the sudden and unexpected rain stopping the two armies, which could be a positive interpretation [of Nostradamus], meaning that the attack on Iraq may be halted and diplomatic negotiations may be allowed to continue. A very impressive verse is the last one, which mentions the death of seven, and obviously, the astronauts who died were seven." The scholar, a writer in residence at the Abelardo D¡az Alfaro "Casa Rosada", was careful to add that the quatrain did not apply to the Challenger disaster of 1986, because the world was not at the verge of war, as it is today. "I believe that it could urge us to look toward reflection, and that the public should meditate upon the transcendence of life." How it changed my life:well..I believe you can read anything into this type of prophecy you want. But it does give one pause.....)O(
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