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During covid times I heard many interesting conspiracy predictions such as the value is money will fall to zero, the whole society will collapse, the vaccine will kill 99% of the population etc. None of those things have happened yet, but can you add some other predicitons to the list?

Actually, long before covid hit, there were all sorts of predictions floating around. You know, things like the 2008 recession will cause the whole economy to collapse and then we’ll go straight to Mad Max style post-apocalyptic nightmare or 9/11 was supposed to start WW3. I can’t even remember all the predictions I’ve heard over the years, but I’m sure you can help me out. Oh, just remembered that someone said that paper and metal money will disappear completely by year xyz. At the time that date was like only a few years away, but now it’s more like 10 years ago or something. Still waiting for that one to come true…

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

There's Harold Camping's end of the world predictions.

Internet Historian created a comedic video covering it. The link can be found here. It's 23 minutes long.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Now that's an interesting question

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We were supposed to have exhausted the earths oil resources 25 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Counting these resources is very tricky. You could just ask mining companies how much resources they have, but that number tends to increase as they drill more. See JORC code for more info.

Drilling is expensive, so the company won’t drill any more than they absolutely have to in order to convince the investors. This means that outside the measured mineral resources there’s usually a lot that is only indicated or inferred. Since, the confidence in those parts tends to be very low, the companies can’t really report those numbers as proper mineral resources. However, they can confidently report the measured and proved resources, so those are the numbers you’ll usually see in the news articles.

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