While Von Foerster’s scientific report indicates that on November 13, 2026 the planet would collapse due to overpopulation and Stephen Hawking gives us about 600 more years of life, mathematics is somewhat more precise when it comes to forecasts and predictions. In fact, it is most likely that life on our planet will end when the Sun exhausts its fuel and “goes out” with an explosion that takes us ahead. Something that will happen in 5,000 million years.
With such a long date It is impossible not only to know if something will happen before (meteorite, nuclear conflict, virus…) but knowing what day of the week it will occur. Still, let’s play with the math.
The idea is to see which day of the week is the most dangerous. For this we can use reports from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as data sources (CDC).
The CDC’s Wonder database contains information on all deaths from 1999 to 2014. The information is not only divided by cause of death, from violent crimes to overdoses, to the usual suspects: cancer, heart disease, stroke or suicide.
The day of the week with the most deaths turns out to be Saturday. Whether we add up all the causes or, strangely, if the top 10 causes of death are evaluated individually. To add more arguments to placing human extinction on a Saturday, This day deaths increased by almost 10% in all sectionswhich shows a significant difference.
For example, traffic accident deaths occurred on Saturdays (42,332), followed by Sundays (39,943), and then Fridays (36,167).
Deaths from firearms also They peaked on weekendsincreasing from between 23,000 and 25,000 in total on different days of the week to more than 31,000 deaths during the Saturdays and Sundays of the study period.
On a much smaller scale, the highest number of deaths from “contact with a poisonous plant or animal” (that’s the official term) also occurred on Saturdays.
Obviously, The chances of the dreaded solar flare occurring on a Saturday are irrelevant. This will not happen overnight: much sooner, in about a billion years, solar radiation will be such that life on our planet will be impossible… As will determining what a day is and is not, taking into account that Our star will occupy almost our entire horizon due to the increase in its size and night and day will be practically indistinguishable.. So, at that point, whether it’s Saturday or Thursday, it won’t matter much. And most likely, in statistical, mathematical and realistic terms, we are not here to see it. Because, despite statistics, correlation does not always imply causation.