Earth Future

The Near Future:

• 2021 AD : Summer Olympics in Tokyo,  Japan
• 2022 AD : ExoMars rover touches down on Mars
• 2022 AD : Winter Olympics in Beijing, China
• 2023 AD : China opens its own space station
• 2023 AD : Private citizens go around the Moon
• 2023 AD : 8 Billion people on the planet
• 2023 AD : The Dark Ages Radio Explorer (DARE) is launched
• 2023 AD : Advanced AI realistic image generation.  Photographs can no longer be used as evidence
• 2024 AD : Internet via space (Starlink fully operational)
• 2024 AD : Summer Olympics in Paris, France
• 2024 AD : GPT-4 and other advanced AI’s released
• 2024 AD : First crewed flight of NASA’s Orion spacecraft
• 2024 AD : Moon’s south pole is drilled (Lunar Mission One)
• 2024 AD : India’s first crewed space flight
• 2025 AD : India beats China in population numbers
• 2025 AD : Human organs 3D printed
• 2025 AD : The ITER experimental fusion reactor turned on
• 2026 AD : First people sent to Mars
• 2026 AD : Hard drives reach 50TB each
• 2026 AD : AI singularity
• 2027 AD : Brain – Computer link trials started
• 2028 AD : Olympics in LA, California
• 2029 AD : Largest ever ground based telescope built (Magellan)
• 2030 AD : More EVs than Petrol cars on the road
• 2031 AD : Titanic wreck decomposed
• 2035 AD : 9 Billion people on the planet
• 2036 AD : First people land on Mars
• 2037 AD : California likely seen some major earthquakes
• 2038 AD : The 2038 technical date problem (32bit overflow)
• 2039 AD : Most new cars have self driving feature
• 2040 AD : AI becomes intelligent
• 2050 AD : 10 Billion people on the planet
• 2060 AD : Halley’s comet returns
• 2070 AD : Oil, then Gas have runs out
• 2080 AD : 11 Billion people on the planet
• 2100 AD : CO2 levels at 800ppm with a 4c global temperature rise
• 2100 AD : Sea levels 1 metre higher than today
• 2123 AD : 106 minute lunar eclipse
• 2130 AD : All coal on Earth has been mined

Far Future:

• 10,000 years : Sea levels rise above 3 metres
• 15,000 years : North Pole now in the Sahara
• 50,000 years : Each day is 1 second longer
• 60,000 years : Ice age possible
• 100,000 years : Constellations looking completely different
• 500,000 years : Statically, Earth would be hit by an extinction level asteroid by now
• 1 Million years : Super-volcanic global disaster likely happens by now
• 50 Million years : (Phobos) Moon has hit Mars
• 100 Million years : Earth might have replenish its fossil fuels
• 110 Million years : The Sun is 1% brighter
• 180 Million years :There will be 25 hrs in a day
• 292 Million years : Saturn’s rings disappeared
• 500 Million years : There will be 27 hrs in day
• 600 Million years : The last Lunar eclipse
• 700 Million years : Life becoming unsustainable due to heat
• 900 Million years : There will be 30 hrs in a day
• 1 Billion years : Sun is 10% hotter, boiling away oceans
• 1.2 Billion years : Plant life no longer exists
• 2 Billion years : Poles vanish, atmosphere starts bleeding to space
• 2.55 Billion years : Sun reaches maximum surface temperature
• 3 Billion years : Earth over 100c, all life is extinct

Very Distant Future:

• 4 Billion years : Our Galaxy collides with Andromeda Galaxy
• 5 Billion years : Earth is over 1000c, molten rock appearing
• 5.4 Billion years : Sun evolving in to a red giant
• 6.5 Billion years : Mars now has Earth like temperatures
• 7.6 Billion years : Sun is 256 larger. Earth likely falls into the Sun
• 7.9 Billion years : Sun reaches its maximum size
• 8.0 Billion years : Sun shrinks to a small white dwarf

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