The world was due to end on November 24, 2005

1. 200521st anniversary
   Doomsday · busted

   Princeton Geologist Named Thanksgiving Day 2005 'World Oil Peak Day.' Output Kept Climbing for Years

   Kenneth Deffeyes picked the exact day world oil production would peak and promised decline, 'at first slowly, and then more rapidly.' By 2018 the world was producing 100.4 million barrels a day.

   World Oil Peak Day: Thanksgiving, November 24, 2005 · Kenneth S. Deffeyes (professor emeritus of geology, Princeton; author of Beyond Oil)

   The deadline arrived on time. The apocalypse did not.

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