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Why scientists in 1960s predicted world would end on Friday [November, 13, 2026]
The Week ^ | 11 09 2026 | Chas Newkey-Burden

Posted on 11/13/2026 6:57:00 AM PST by yesthatjallen

Did you hear that the world is ending on Friday? That's according to three scientists in the 1960s.

“Our great-great-grandchildren will not starve,” they said in an article in the journal Science published on 4 November 1960. “They will be squeezed to death.”

“The work was based on a simple observation,” said Science in October – “the time it took for the human population to double in size kept getting shorter”. So, drawing on population estimates from about 400BC until 1958, the authors “came up with an equation that best described the trend”.

By 2020, they predicted, the human population would exceed 25 billion, but the researchers “didn’t calculate when humanity would run out of food, land, or energy”. They merely concluded that “at some point” in 2026, their equation “ceased to give meaningful results because the predicted population shot towards infinity”.

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KEYWORDS: endoftheworld; population; prediction

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1 posted on 11/13/2026 6:57:01 AM PST by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

Trust the science....................😜


2 posted on 11/13/2026 6:58:17 AM PST by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
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To: yesthatjallen

So, we still have a few hours left? Which side of the international date line did they mean?


3 posted on 11/13/2026 7:04:24 AM PST by crusty old prospector
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To: yesthatjallen

Well....................Bye..


4 posted on 11/13/2026 7:05:40 AM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: yesthatjallen

They missed by 10 days. The world ended november 3rd.


5 posted on 11/13/2026 7:08:03 AM PST by weezel
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To: yesthatjallen

They missed by 10 days. The world ended november 3rd.


6 posted on 11/13/2026 7:08:07 AM PST by weezel
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To: yesthatjallen

“Scientists” with incorrect assumptions get wackadoodle conclusions—in every area of science.

The only way to catch them is to keep demanding “prove it” on all of their base assumptions—including stuff they taught you in kindergarten.

Question everything—and then ask tougher questions—and don’t let them weasel out of giving good answers.

Do not give them any benefit of the doubt.


7 posted on 11/13/2026 7:08:23 AM PST by cgbg (Four seconds is all it takes to beat the brainwashing.)
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To: Red Badger

Of course. “Scientists” are “experts,” so we have to do whatever they say


8 posted on 11/13/2026 7:09:54 AM PST by j.havenfarm (25 years on Free Republic, 12/10/25! More than 12,750 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: Red Badger

“Soylent Green” kind of ran with This
Same theme.
It’s original title was “Move Over”
or some such. IIRC


9 posted on 11/13/2026 7:10:44 AM PST by Big Red Badger (What's In Your Bucket List?)
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To: yesthatjallen

“Why scientists in 1960s predicted world would end on Friday [November, 13, 2026]”. Should I be worried? The sun rose in the east this morning.


10 posted on 11/13/2026 7:14:50 AM PST by kawhill (Dywedwch + Add translation Welsh-English dictionary 'Tell Us')
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11 posted on 11/13/2026 7:15:42 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Big Red Badger

1966 Novel named “Make Room,Make Room!”


12 posted on 11/13/2026 7:17:18 AM PST by Big Red Badger (What's In Your Bucket List?)
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To: yesthatjallen
> “They will be squeezed to death.” <

I’m not quite sure how to defend against that. But just to be safe, all day today I’ll be wearing a suit of armor.

Here I am waiting for my ride to work.


13 posted on 11/13/2026 7:18:45 AM PST by Leaning Right
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To: yesthatjallen

This kind of stupidity is why I don’t believe that global warming is going to kill us all by ... pretty soon.


14 posted on 11/13/2026 7:19:02 AM PST by libertylover (The HBM (Has Been Media) is almost all AGENDA-DRIVEN and HATE-DRIVEN, not-truth driven)
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To: yesthatjallen
Answer, of course...

...we need more gov't...

Always.

15 posted on 11/13/2026 7:19:37 AM PST by Jim W N (MAGA "by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Big Red Badger

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_Green


16 posted on 11/13/2026 7:19:38 AM PST by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
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To: yesthatjallen

Well, I hope it won’t be as bad as y2k.


17 posted on 11/13/2026 7:20:31 AM PST by paint_your_wagon
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To: yesthatjallen

I still have a booklet “88 REASONS WHY THE WORLD WILL END IN 1988!”
I have an old advertisement predicting 1984.


18 posted on 11/13/2026 7:23:43 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (REOREOPEN THE CLOSED MENTAL HOSPITALS! When closed in the 1970s, murders by crazies sky rocketed!)
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To: yesthatjallen

They were close...it ended Nov. 3rd.


19 posted on 11/13/2026 7:24:46 AM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo )
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To: Big Red Badger

Made into a sitcom named Make Room For Daddy.


20 posted on 11/13/2026 7:29:41 AM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait.)
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