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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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To: yesthatjallen

Bad luck started with the Knights Templar in the 1700’s when the king of France couldn’t pay his debt of money he borrowed from the Templars.
He burned their leader at the post and killed as many as he could before they fled the country.


21 posted on 11/13/2026 7:34:11 AM PST by Vaduz (NEVER TRUST A DEMOCRAT)
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To: yesthatjallen

Bad luck started with the Knights Templar in the 1700’s when the king of France couldn’t pay his debt of money he borrowed from the Templars.
He burned their leader at the post and killed as many as he could before they fled the country.

On Friday the 13th

Missed on first post dang


22 posted on 11/13/2026 7:35:15 AM PST by Vaduz (NEVER TRUST A DEMOCRAT)
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23 posted on 11/13/2026 7:40:00 AM PST by Frank Drebin (And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)
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To: crusty old prospector

Hmmm??? It’s already November 14 in East Asia. So maybe another miss?


24 posted on 11/13/2026 7:43:14 AM PST by FiddlePig (The greatest threat to our sacred liberty is to not value it!””)
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To: yesthatjallen

Actually it ended on 11/03/2026.

Some mistakenly believe it would be a sudden catastrophe event.

Reality is that it more closely resembles the sinking of the S.S. America.


25 posted on 11/13/2026 7:44:36 AM PST by sjmjax
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26 posted on 11/13/2026 7:48:37 AM PST by DFG
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To: yesthatjallen

I hope they didn’t spend their entire grant in one place.


27 posted on 11/13/2026 7:48:40 AM PST by READINABLUESTATE
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To: yesthatjallen

Tonight we’re going to party like it’s ... 11/13/2026 ...


28 posted on 11/13/2026 7:53:07 AM PST by x
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To: yesthatjallen
List of All Time Best Comic Strips – The Daily Cartoonist

 

The 1960 cartoon strip referencing the November 13, 2026 end-of-the-world prediction is Walt Kelly's Pogo. Kelly featured the prophecy across a three-day run of daily newspaper strips from December 8 to December 10, 1960. [1]
 

29 posted on 11/13/2026 8:01:30 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: JBW1949
Everyone lets sing our way out of here...

 

It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

30 posted on 11/13/2026 8:04:54 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: yesthatjallen

Trends reverse.


31 posted on 11/13/2026 8:05:31 AM PST by ChessExpert (Infidels of the world unite against the evil that is Islam.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Should I put my meatloaf back in the freezer?


32 posted on 11/13/2026 8:22:17 AM PST by dforest
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To: weezel

You can certainly look at it that way.


33 posted on 11/13/2026 8:23:08 AM PST by dforest
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To: Big Red Badger

The Steppenwolf song “Move Over” is appropriate, I.e. if you want to retire, get out of the way.


34 posted on 11/13/2026 8:23:55 AM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: yesthatjallen
I have this on my fridge from 2012 when the Mayan calendar ran out so the assumption was that was it for us. Maybe one day it'll be right but today while a bit gloomy and overcast looks good.


35 posted on 11/13/2026 8:54:06 AM PST by xp38
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To: dforest
Should I put my meatloaf back in the freezer?

Yes, and don't buy any green bananas.

36 posted on 11/13/2026 8:56:46 AM PST by fidelis (Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia!)
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To: fidelis

Check!


37 posted on 11/13/2026 8:58:46 AM PST by dforest
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To: yesthatjallen

MS saved us all. There was to be an email sent early this morning and it could not be sent.


38 posted on 11/13/2026 9:22:19 AM PST by pas
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To: dforest
Should I put my meatloaf back in the freezer?

If it makes “Bat Out Of Hell” sound better, why not!

39 posted on 11/13/2026 9:31:11 AM PST by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.)
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To: yesthatjallen

If I had known this I wouldn’t have bothered to clean my apartment.

CC


40 posted on 11/13/2026 9:37:25 AM PST by Celtic Conservative (Heghlu'meH QaQ jajvam!)
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