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11th millennium and beyond
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Several predictions have been made concerning the future following the . This article is a compendium of these predictions ranging from factual Astronomical knowledge to predictions of Science Fiction productions.
This section lists several rare astronomical events expected to occur after the year 10,000.
All dates are in a uniform time scale like Terrestrial Time . When converted to our ordinary solar time or Universal Time , which is decidedly non-uniform, via ΔT , the dates would be a few days earlier. Because of this difference, these dates have no anniversary relation to historical dates. Furthermore, they are only astronomical dates, so they are given in the astronomical format of Year Month Day.
- 12720: Coincidence of the nodes of Mercury and Venus
- 67730: Coincidence of the nodes of Mercury and Venus
- 10,663 August 20: Similar occurrence of total solar eclipse and a transit of Mercury
- 11,268 August 25: Similar occurrence of total solar eclipse and a transit of Mercury
- 11,575 February 28: Similar occurrence of annular solar eclipse and a transit of Mercury
- 15,232 April 5: Similar occurrence of total solar eclipse and a transit of Venus
- 15,790 April 20: Similar occurrence of annular solar eclipse and a transit of Mercury
- 13,425 September 13: In a time interval of only 16 hours a transit of Mercury and a transit of Venus takes place
- 69,163 July 26: Simultaneous transit of Mercury and Venus
- 224,508 March 27: Simultaneous transit of Mercury and Venus
- 10,032 November 1: Venus occults Regulus
- 10,494 November 9: Venus occults Regulus
- 10,674 October 5: Mercury occults Aldebaran
- 10,956 November 16: Venus occults Regulus
- 10,974 April 28: Ceres occults Antares
- 11,398 December 11: Mercury occults Regulus
- 11,418 November 24: Venus occults Regulus
- 12,063 July 28: Mars occults Regulus
- 12,115 December 5: Venus occults Regulus
- 12,233 December 23: Mercury occults Regulus
- 12,308 January 10: Mars occults Regulus
- 12,347 July 30: Mars occults Regulus
- 12,812 December 15: Venus occults Regulus
- 13,189 February 9: Mercury occults Regulus
- 13,207 January 25: Mars occults Regulus
- 13,534 November 28: Mercury occults Aldebaran
- 13,595 January 11: Mercury occults Regulus
- 13,744 December 29: Venus occults Regulus
- 14,121 January 18: Mercury occults Regulus
- 14,161 March 11: Venus occults Regulus
- 14,384 January 22: Mercury occults Regulus
- 14,619 August 10: Mars occults Regulus
- 14,647 January 26: Mercury occults Regulus
- 14,910 January 29: Mercury occults Regulus
- 22,767 April 18: Ceres occults Aldebaran
- 23,527 August 1: Pallas occults Castor
- 40,529 January 11: Ceres occults Aldebaran
- 41,367 January 7: Ceres occults Aldebaran
- ~200,000,000 (two hundred million): Red Supergiant , Betelgeuse explodes as a Supernova
- ~700,000,000 (seven hundred million): The .
- ~3,000,000,000 (three billion): The Andromeda Galaxy and our Milky Way Galaxy are predicted to collide (they may merge and become one larger galaxy, but few stars will actually collide with other stars because of the vastness of space).
- ~5,000,000,000 (five billion): The Sun becomes a Red Giant and all life on Earth, possibly Earth itself, is destroyed, barring unforeseen circumstances, unless advanced technology can prevent this.
- ~7,000,000,000 (seven billion): The Sun becomes a White Dwarf about the size of the Earth.
- ~1,000,000,000,000 (one trillion): The Sun becomes a Black Dwarf .
- ~1,000,000,000,000,000 (one quadrillion): The Big Freeze according to many cosmologists. Intelligent life existing then may flee to Other Universe s, as suggested by the physicist Michio Kaku .
It is possible that the Universe stops expanding and starts to contract ultimately disappearing in the Big Crunch , the event where the universe collapses back to Singularity . Alternatively, the universe may face the Big Rip , where the expansion of the universe becomes so powerful that even the Spacetime breaks apart. According to current knowledge, both possibilities seem unlikely. The universe is believed to expand forever in an ever faster pace.
See also: Ultimate Fate Of The Universe
- 428,899: The last year of the Kali Yuga , the current and last of four Hindu Yuga s (eras).
- around 12,000: The events of Vampire Hunter D take place.
- 12,469: The setting of the science fiction project Orion's Arm .
- 17,276: The events of the game Xenogears begin.
- 20,001: The events of the occur.
- 21,592: It is estimated that the events of the first '' Dune '' novel take place.
- 25th millennium: The events of Isaac Asimov 's '' Foundation '' take place.
- 28,702: In the Anarchy Online universe, the planet Rubi-Ka is discovered by the Omni-Tek Corporation.
- 31st millennium: In the Games Workshop universe, the events of the Horus Heresy take place.
- 41st millennium: The setting for Warhammer 40,000 in the Games Workshop universe.
- 200,000: The year that the British Science Fiction Television Program '' Doctor Who '' episode The Long Game takes place in.
- 200,100: The year that the British science fiction television program ''Doctor Who'' episodes Bad Wolf and The Parting Of The Ways take place in.
- 802,701: The year that the Time Traveller meets the Eloi and the Morlocks in '' The Time Machine '' by H. G. Wells .
- In the Babylon 5 universe, approximately one million years after the founding of the Interstellar Alliance (2262) humans evolve into beings of energy. They leave Earth for the old Vorlon homeworld - and destroy the solar system to keep any remaining technology out of the hands of younger races.
- In the show Red Dwarf , ''Red Dwarf'' is a gigantic spaceship belonging to the Jupiter Mining Corporation. An on-board radiation leak kills everyone except for Dave Lister , who was in Suspended Animation at the time. Three million years later, Lister emerges from Stasis as the last human being alive.
- In the documentary '' The Future Is Wild '', scientists believe that in 5,000,000 years time, the world will be in an Ice Age . The Mediterranean Sea will be a vast salt plain and the Amazon Rainforest will be no more. Creatures of this land include huge killer birds, thin-legged pigs, sticky-frilled lizards and birds that act like whales. Humans, by this time, have either gone extinct or have left the planet.
- In the show Time Squad , main characters live in the year 1,000,000,000.
- In the documentary ''The Future is Wild'', scientists speculate that in 100,000,000 years time, the world will be very hot due to excess volcanic activity. Antarctica will be a lush rainforest. Creatures of this world include enormous tortoises, amphibious octopi, four-winged birds and rodent eating spiders. At this time, there is also only one species of mammal left, which is preyed upon by the spiders.
- In the documentary ''The Future is Wild'', scientists speculate that in 200,000,000 years time, the world will contain one global ocean and one continent, like Pangea . 100,000,000 years ago, there was a Mass Extinction and now the world is desert like, with a couple of rainforests around the edge. Creatures of this world include flying fish, giant Plankton , various worms and intelligent, arboreal squid. There are no mammals, no birds, no reptiles, no amphibians and only sharks left to represent aquatic fish.
- Approximately 5 billion years away from now: The year of The End Of The World in the British science fiction television program ''Doctor Who''. The date is given as ''5.5/Apple/26'' - implying that the explanation of 5 billion was an approximation.
- In Stephen Baxter's '''' novel, the last decendents of humanity, close to the Big Freeze, make some changes to our near present in order to release the universe's vacuum energy, spawn new universes, and avoid letting the Big Freeze happen.
On November 11, 11111 11:11 AM will be the first time since November 11, 1111 11:11 AM where all the numbers in the date are the same. (May 5, 5555 does not work, because it is actually 5/5/5555 5:55 AM 55 seconds
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