@jimswormhole: Is the end of humanity for Friday the 13th this year? In 1960, the journal Science published "Doomsday: Friday, 13 November, A.D. 2026." Three engineers fit 2,000 years of population numbers into one equation, and it shoots to infinity on that day. The lead author, Heinz von Foerster, picked that Friday the 13th himself. It was his birthday. The same paper called for a "peoplo-stat" to cut the world's birth rate in half, to families of just over two children. Today's world average: 2.25. In 2018, a historian ran the same math on Ray Kurzweil's history of the universe and a physicist's history of life on Earth. They run out in 2029 and 2027. After Friday, the equation's population is an imaginary number. What do you think is on the other side? Follow @jimswormhole for more trips down the wormhole #doomsday #november13 #mystery

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