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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
Because they were idiots.
41 posted on 11/13/2026 9:45:58 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (I just want FReepers to READ THE ARTICLE. And then think 30 secs before pounding keyboard.)
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To: Vaduz
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.

In the 1700?

Your are off by a few centuries there.

42 posted on 11/13/2026 9:57:47 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (I just want FReepers to READ THE ARTICLE. And then think 30 secs before pounding keyboard.)
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