Seems legit
I thought I'd try to actually examine the original source, because the article as quoted didn't actually make sense. So, I went to the source listed as "foodandourhealth.com". Which referenced "healthyfoodteam.com" as its source. Which referenced "Weeklyhealthylife.com" as its source. Which listed "naturalmedicinebox.net" as its source. By this point, I was starting to suspect that I might in fact be on a never-ending journey through ridiculous food-related websites; probably all owned by the same company and reposting each others' content to artificially boost search engine rankings.
Fortunately, for me (and my precious little remaining sanity
), the chain ended there; naturalmedicinebox listed "esnoticia.co" as its source, and I couldn't find a search function there.
So I thought I'd look up "Mr. Harold Hill, President of the Curtis Engine Company in Baltimore, Maryland" and immediately came across a link on
an urban legends site. Apparently, a similar story along these lines first appeared in the 1930s!
In 1997, NASA confirmed that these events did not happen. In general, when creating these calculations, they extrapolate from things "today" (observable evidence) and based on those observations predict where they will be a few years in the future.
It is sad that producing false stories such as are produced because ultimately their dishonesty does nothing to help anyone.