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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Trust the science....................😜
So, we still have a few hours left? Which side of the international date line did they mean?
Well....................Bye..
They missed by 10 days. The world ended november 3rd.
They missed by 10 days. The world ended november 3rd.
“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.
Of course. “Scientists” are “experts,” so we have to do whatever they say
“Soylent Green” kind of ran with This
Same theme.
It’s original title was “Move Over”
or some such. IIRC
“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.
1966 Novel named “Make Room,Make Room!”
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.
This kind of stupidity is why I don’t believe that global warming is going to kill us all by ... pretty soon.
...we need more gov't...
Always.
Well, I hope it won’t be as bad as y2k.
I still have a booklet “88 REASONS WHY THE WORLD WILL END IN 1988!”
I have an old advertisement predicting 1984.
They were close...it ended Nov. 3rd.
Made into a sitcom named Make Room For Daddy.
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