Well, the really big swings are every (roughly) 100k years.
Of note though, other natural causes of “disaster” exist. Vulcanism, for sure, asteroid hits, pandemics (like the “Black Death”, and in our electronics dependent age, a very high end solar storm.
Didn’t Stephen Hawking (and Elon Musk) postulate “a setback to civilization” every 1000 years or so? Seems about right.
TikTok ends tomorrow. Civilization will collapse before Trump can even be sworn in on Monday.
Let’s not forget the prophecies of CRISWELL PREDICTS from the 1960s. Oh wait! The end has already passed according to him!
Well, there is Edgar Cayce and later Jean Dixon who said “NIXON WILL NOT RESIGN!” in the STAR tabloid the very week Nixon resigned. Ten years later her publicity department tried to say she HAD predicted the resignation.