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The '''11th millennium and beyond''' is a period of time that will begin on 1 January 10001 [[Current Era|CE]]. Several predictions have been made concerning this future time period. This article is a compendium of such predictions, ranging from factual [[astronomy|astronomical]] knowledge to the predictions of [[science fiction]].
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==Astronomical events==
This section lists several rare astronomical events expected to occur after the year 10000.<ref>[http://www.marco-peuschel.de/simtrans.pdf Simultaneous Transits by Meeus and Vitagliano] (pdf, 315KB)</ref><ref>[http://www.marco-peuschel.de/planetenundregulus.htm Conjunctions of Regulus and the planets] {{de icon}}</ref><ref>[http://www.marco-peuschel.de/simultantransit.html Accuracy of calculations] {{de icon}}</ref>

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 [[Delta T|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.

=== Axial Precession ===
*12000: [[Axial tilt]] of Earth will reach a minimum, near 22°.
*≈14000: [[Vega]] will become the [[North Star]].
*≈24000: [[Dubhe]] will become the North Star.

===Pioneer 10===
*12490: [[Pioneer 10]] passes 3.8 light-years from Barnard's star.
*≈34000: Pioneer 10 will pass 1.76 light-years from the star [[Ross 248]].
*864,047: Pioneer 10 will approach the vicinities of eight other stars, including [[Altair]], a star nine times the size of the Sun.

===Pioneer 11===
*≈4,000,000 years from now [[Pioneer 11]] will pass near stars in the constellation of [[Aquila (constellation)|Aquila]] (The Eagle).

===Voyagers 1 & 2===
*In about 40,000 years [[Voyager 1]] will come within 1.6 light-years of [[AC+79 3888]], a star in the constellation of [[Camelopardalis]].<ref>[http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/interstellar.html NASA – Voyager - Mission - Interstellar Mission<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
*In some 296,000 years, [[Voyager 2]] will pass within 4.3 light-years of [[Sirius]], the brightest star in our sky.

===Coincidences of nodes of planets===
*12720: Coincidence of the [[orbital node|node]]s of [[Mercury (planet)|Mercury]] and [[Venus]].
*67730: Coincidence of the nodes of Mercury and Venus.

===Special transits===
====Simultaneous occurrence of solar eclipse and transit====
*10663 August 20: Total [[solar eclipse]] and a [[transit of Mercury]].<ref name=Solar_eclipses_during_transits>[http://transit.savage-garden.org/sedt.html Solar eclipses during transits; One hundred millennium catalog 50 000 BC - 50 000 AD]</ref>
*11268 August 25: Total solar eclipse and a transit of Mercury.<ref name=Solar_eclipses_during_transits/>
*11575 February 28: Annular solar eclipse and a transit of Mercury.<ref name=Solar_eclipses_during_transits/>
*15232 April 5: Total solar eclipse and a [[transit of Venus]].<ref>[http://transit.savage-garden.org/sedt/34/ Simultaneous occurrence of solar eclipse and transit of Venus 15232 Apr 05]</ref>
*15790 April 20: Annular solar eclipse and a transit of Mercury.<ref name=Solar_eclipses_during_transits/>

====Simultaneous transits of Mercury and Venus====
*13425 September 13: Transits of Mercury and Venus within only 16 hours.
*18713 October 8: Simultaneous transit of Mercury and Venus as seen from Mars.
*19536 August 9: Simultaneous transit of Mercury and Venus as seen from Mars.
*20029 May 21: Simultaneous transit of Mercury and Venus as seen from Mars.
*69163 July 26: Simultaneous transit of Mercury and Venus as seen from Earth.
*224508 March 29: Simultaneous transit of Mercury and Venus.

====Transit of Uranus from Neptune====
*38172 October: A [[transit of Uranus from Neptune]], the rarest of all planetary transits.
*46915 August: A transit of Uranus from Neptune.

====Mutual planetary transits====
*40396 December 1: Uranus occults Neptune

====Miscellaneous transits====
*571741: A simultaneous transit of Venus and the Earth from Mars.<ref>J. Meeus, A. Vitagliano, {{PDFlink|[http://chemistry.unina.it/≈alvitagl/solex/Simtrans.pdf Simultaneous transits]|315KB}}, ''Journal of the British Astronomical Association'' '''114'''/3 (2004)</ref>

===Occultations of bright stars by planets===
====10000–11000====
*10032 November 1: [[Venus]] [[Occultation|occults]] [[Regulus]].
*10494 November 9: Venus occults Regulus.
*10674 October 5: [[Mercury (planet)|Mercury]] occults [[Aldebaran]].
*10956 November 16: Venus occults Regulus.
*10974 April 28: [[Ceres (dwarf planet)|Ceres]] occults [[Antares]].

====11000–12000====
*11398 December 11: Mercury occults Regulus.
*11418 November 24: Venus occults Regulus.

====12000–13000====
*12063 July 28: [[Mars]] occults Regulus.
*12115 December 5: Venus occults Regulus.
*12233 December 23: Mercury occults Regulus.
*12308 January 10: Mars occults Regulus.
*12347 July 30: Mars occults Regulus.
*12812 December 15: Venus occults Regulus.

====13000–14000====
*13189 February 9: Mercury occults Regulus.
*13207 January 25: Mars occults Regulus.
*13534 November 28: Mercury occults Aldebaran.
*13595 January 11: Mercury occults Regulus.
*13744 December 29: Venus occults Regulus.

====14000–15000====
*14121 January 18: Mercury occults Regulus.
*14161 March 11: Venus occults Regulus.
*14384 January 22: Mercury occults Regulus.
*14619 August 10: Mars occults Regulus.
*14647 January 26: Mercury occults Regulus.
*14910 January 29: Mercury occults Regulus.

====After 15000====
*22767 April 18: Ceres occults Aldebaran.
*23527 August 1: [[2 Pallas|Pallas]] occults [[Castor (star)|Castor]].
*40529 January 11: Ceres occults Aldebaran.
*41367 January 7: Ceres occults Aldebaran.

===Miscellaneous events===
*≈11037: [[Newton's Comet]] returns.
*11800: Closest approach of [[Barnard's Star]] to the [[Sun]] at 3.8 light-years.<ref>{{cite web|title=Barnards star|url=http://www.solstation.com/stars/barnards.htm|work=|archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/5kOysfoTG|archivedate=2009-10-09|deadurl=no|accessdate=2009-10-07}}</ref>
*25000: The 1974 [[Arecibo message|interstellar radio message]] sent by the [[Arecibo Observatory]] finally arrives at its destination, the [[Messier 13|M13]] Great Globular Cluster.
*≈28000: [[Orbital eccentricity|Eccentricity]] of Earth's orbit will reach a minimum, near 0.
*≈52005–52010: [[KEO]] satellite time capsule expected to reenter.

===Predicted events after year 1,000,000===

{{Refimprove|section|date=July 2007}}
Please note that there are many different theories and models about our universe and its past, present and future behavior. Because of these factors, the events listed in this section should not be considered definitive, complete or necessarily consistent with one another.

*8,400,000: [[LAGEOS]] 2 satellite [[time capsule]] re-enters Earth's atmosphere.
*600,000,000 to 3,500,000,000 (estimates vary): Slow but steady increase in solar luminosity will cause [[Earth]]'s oceans to evaporate, leaving it inhospitable to life.<ref>[http://www.astronomycafe.net/qadir/q1886.html Sten Odenwald, "How do you think the Earth will finally come to an end?"]</ref><ref>[http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~pogge/Lectures/vistas97.html Richard W. Pogge, "The Once and Future Sun"]</ref>
*1,000,000,000: The last total [[solar eclipse]] on Earth will occur, due to the [[Moon]]'s [[Orbit of the Moon#Tidal evolution of the lunar orbit|orbit]] gradually becoming larger and spreading away from the earth (see [[Tidal acceleration]] for more on this).<ref>Anthony Kendall, "[http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=476 The Final Total Eclipse]"</ref>
*3,000,000,000: The [[Andromeda Galaxy]] and our [[Milky Way Galaxy]] are predicted to [[Andromeda–Milky Way collision|collide]].
*5,400,000,000: The [[Sun]] leaves the [[main sequence]], becoming a [[red giant]].<ref name=distant>K.-P. Schröder, Robert Connon Smith, "[http://arxiv.org/abs/0801.4031v1 Distant future of the Sun and Earth revisited]", ''Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society'' '''386''' (2008) 155–163.</ref>
*7,590,000,000: The red giant Sun engulfs the Earth.<ref name=distant/>
*7,816,000,000: The Sun becomes a [[white dwarf]] about the size of the Earth.<ref>I.-Julianna Sachmann, Arnold I. Boothroyd, Kathleen E. Kreamer, "[http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1993ApJ...418..457S Our Sun. III. Present and Future]", ''Astronomical Journal'' '''418''' (1993) 457–468.</ref>
*17,000,000,000: The Sun becomes a [[black dwarf]].<ref>[http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/science/know_l1/dwarfs.html White Dwarfs - introduction]</ref>
*30,000,000,000: Earliest possible date for the universe to collapse in the hypothetical scenario known as the [[Big Crunch]].<ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/21/us/new-data-on-2-doomsday-ideas-big-rip-vs-big-crunch.html New Data on 2 Doomsday Ideas, Big Rip vs. Big Crunch]</ref>
*100,000,000,000: The [[Virgo Supercluster]] merges into one super galaxy, millions of light-years across, filled with [[red dwarf]]s and small amounts of [[white dwarf]]s. Other superclusters have also merged, yet have been separated from each other by distances of more than a billion light-years due to the acceleration of [[dark energy]].
*100,000,000,000,000 to 1,000,000,000,000,000 (one quadrillion): The [[Big Freeze]] according to many cosmologists. Intelligent life existing then may flee to [[Multiverse (science)|other universe]]s, as suggested by the physicist [[Michio Kaku]]. Beginning of the [[Degenerate Era]] of our universe. End of normal star formation and normal stars in the Milky Way/M31 super-galaxy. New stars formed only via [[brown dwarf]] collisions every hundred billion years or so.
*1,000,000,000,000,000,000 (one quintillion) to 10,000,000,000,000,000,000 (ten quintillion): The Universe ends in a [[Big Crunch]] according to physicist [[Frank J. Tipler]]'s [[Omega Point]],<ref name="Tipler2005">F. J. Tipler, [http://math.tulane.edu/~tipler/theoryofeverything.pdf "The structure of the world from pure numbers"], ''[[Reports on Progress in Physics]]'', Vol. 68, No. 4 (April 2005), pp. 897-964, {{doi|10.1088/0034-4885/68/4/R04}}, {{bibcode|2005RPPh...68..897T}}, pp. 915-916 ([http://www.webcitation.org/5nx3CxKm0 mirror link]). Also released as [http://arxiv.org/abs/0704.3276 "Feynman-Weinberg Quantum Gravity and the Extended Standard Model as a Theory of Everything"], {{arxiv|0704.3276}}, April 24, 2007, pp. 28-29.</ref> but due to a [[supertask]] of computation before the final [[gravitational singularity|singularity]], its simulated inhabitants experience an infinite subjective lifetime.
*10,000,000,000,000,000,000 (10 quintillion): The Galaxy relaxes gravitationally. Ninety percent of stars escape into [[Outer space#Intergalactic|intergalactic space]] while the rest merge with the central [[Black Hole]].
*10<sup>40</sup>: Beginning of the [[Black Hole Era]] of our universe, unless [[proton decay]] does not occur.
*10<sup>100</sup> (one [[googol]]): If the theory of [[Hawking radiation|black hole evaporation]] is correct, it is predicted by many astronomers that all the black holes in our universe will have evaporated by around this year, the beginning of the [[Dark Era]] of our universe, unless [[proton decay]] does not occur.
*10<sup>1500</sup>: [[Cold fusion]] occurring via [[quantum tunneling]] should make the light [[atomic nucleus|nuclei]] in ordinary matter fuse into [[iron-56]] nuclei (see [[isotopes of iron]].) [[Fission]] and alpha-particle emission should make heavy nuclei also decay to iron, leaving stellar-mass objects as cold spheres of iron.
*10<sup>10<sup>26</sup></sup> to 10<sup>10<sup>76</sup></sup>: Stellar mass objects collapse into [[black hole]]s by quantum tunneling.
*10<sup>10<sup>76</sup></sup>: Quantum tunneling may make [[iron star]]s collapse into [[neutron star]]s.

==Eras==
*20874: An [[Islamic calendar]] year will be entirely within a [[Gregorian calendar]] year of the same number.
*48900: The [[Julian calendar]] and [[Gregorian calendar]] will be one year apart.
*428,899: The last year of the [[Kali Yuga]], the current and last of four [[Hindu]] [[Yuga]]s (eras).

==Science predictions==
*≈11200: Humanity will have achieved Type II civilization under the [[Kardashev scale]] according to physicist [[Freeman Dyson]].
*≈12000: Estimated lifespan of the [[Long Now Foundation]]'s several ongoing projects, including a 10,000-year clock known as the [[Clock of the Long Now]], the [[Rosetta Project]], and the [[Long Bet Project]].<ref>[http://www.longnow.org/ Long Now Foundation]</ref>

==Technology==
*60056 May 28: Date range for [[NTFS]] expires (2<sup>64</sup> × 100 nanoseconds since 1601 January 1).
*292,277,026,596 December 4: [[64-bit]] [[Unix time]] [[Arithmetic overflow|overflows]].
*170,141,183,460,469,231,731,687,303,715,884,105,727 December 31: [[128-bit]] Unix time overflows.

==Business==
*10759: Lease to Guinness on [[St. James's Gate Brewery]] in Dublin will come due for renegotiation.

==Science fiction==
*10000-1,000,000,000 <!--According to the Infosphere (wiki), this episode shows events from 3010 to 3010 in a 3rd universe (2E+39+ years later)--> : ''[[Futurama]]'' episode ''[[The Late Philip J. Fry]]''.
*12004–12006 : The events of ''[[Eureka Seven]]''.
*12005: According to the [[Doctor Who]] episode ''[[The End of the World (Doctor Who)|End of the World]]'', a new [[Roman Empire]] has been established on Earth by this year.
*12090: The events of ''[[Vampire Hunter D]]''.
*12569: The setting of the science fiction project ''[[Orion's Arm]]''.
*13851: The events of ''The Shadow at Evening'' (Book 1 of the ''Lamb among the Stars'' trilogy).
*14090: The events of ''[[Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust]]''.
*14292 July 6: Takaya Noriko and Kazumi Amano will return to Earth after detonating the Black Hole Bomb in 2048, according to the last episode of the Japanese animation [[OVA]] series ''[[Gunbuster]]''.
*c. 16000: [[Cordwainer Smith]]'s novel [[Norstrilia]] is set in the 160th century, amidst the [[The Rediscovery of Man|Rediscovery of Man]], an effort by the [[Instrumentality of Mankind]] to inject new life to humanity's stagnant utopia via the reinstation of old customs. Smith's Instrumentality future history spans the millennia from the 21st to the 160th centuries.
*17276–17278: The events of the game [[Xenogears]] begin.<ref>The disparity in the Xenogears years is due to the vagueness of the calendar conversions used in the game. The accompanying literature, Xenogears Perfect Works (PW), states that in AD 2510 the calendar system restarted and was labeled TC, for Transcend Christ. Again in year 4767 TC, the calendar system restarts and is called the New Era (the reference point being the year the Eldridge crashed onto the unnamed planet). PW continues on, stating the events of Xenogears begin in the year 9999 of the New Era. Whether year 0 is counted in any of the calendar systems is up for debate therefore leading to the disparity in the beginning of the events of the game.</ref>
*20001: The events of the [[2010: Odyssey Two#Epilogue: 20.2C001|epilogue to ''2010: Odyssey Two'']] occur.
*20031: The events of the game [[Tyrian (computer game)|Tyrian]].
*ca. 23,191: The events of [[Frank Herbert]]'s ''[[Dune (novel)|Dune]]'' (10,191 After Guild).<ref>[http://www.dunenovels.com/timeline.html The Dune novels: Timeline]</ref>
*23341: The current date in the [[MMORPG]] [[Eve Online]].<ref>[http://www.eve-online.com/races/gallente_timeline.asp EVE Online Gallentean Timeline]</ref>
*25th millennium: The events of [[Isaac Asimov]]'s ''[[Foundation (novel)|Foundation]]''.
*Early 30th millennium: The [[Fall of the Eldar]] occurs. [[Slaanesh]] is born (''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'').
*28702: In the [[Anarchy Online]] universe, the planet Rubi-Ka is discovered by the Omni-Tek Corporation.
*30200: In the ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'' universe, the [[Horus Heresy]] begins.
*37166: In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' serial ''[[Planet of Evil]]'', a geological survey is almost annihilated by anti-matter creatures.
*40000: [[Barbarella (film)|Barbarella]] travels to planet [[Lythion]] and defeats Durand Durand and his positronic ray, the Magmous, several twins with killer dolls, and the Black Queen of Sogo with her entourage of Black Guards.
*40999: The current year in the ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'' universe.
*50009: In the [[Stargate]] universe, M35-115's sun expands into a Red Giant
*ca. 60000: In the ''Empire of the Petal Throne'' universe, mankind first visits [[Nu Ophiuchi]] d, the planet [[Tékumel]], and starts to terraform and then colonise it.
*85271: Many of the events of the [[DC Comics]]' ''[[DC One Million]]'' series. [[Superman]] emerges from his 15,000-year exile in his [[Fortress of Solitude]] inside the Sun.
*100,000: Rise and fall of the Patagonians; the First Men enter in eclipse. – Olaf Stapledon, ''[[Last and First Men]]''
*ca. 111,900: Tékumel is abruptly thrust into a "pocket universe", the cataclysm (known as the Fall of Man) bringing about the Time of Darkness (''chùstlaqólkoi'' in modern [[Tsolyáni]]).
*ca. 116,900: Tékumel emerges from the Time of Darkness and enters the Latter Times.
*ca. 150,800: "Now" in the Tékumel role-playing universe.
*189,346: Current date in the ''[[Noctis]]'' universe.
*200,000: ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode ''[[The Long Game]]''.
*200,100: ''Doctor Who'' episodes ''[[Bad Wolf]]'' and ''[[The Parting of the Ways]]''.
*252,525: ''[[Futurama]]'' episode '' [[The Late Philip J Fry]]''
*802,701: [[The Time Traveller (character)|The Time Traveller]] encounters a garden world and sees Humanity has divided into the meek [[Eloi]] on the surface and the subdwelling, cannibalistic [[Morlocks]] – [[HG Wells]]' ''[[The Time Machine]]'' novel and films
*1,001,986 One million years later from 1986, when the events of [[Kurt Vonnegut]]'s ''[[Galápagos (novel)|Galápagos]]'' have taken place and humanity has evolved to seal-like creatures with limited thinking.
*ca. 1,000,000: In the ''[[Babylon 5]]'' universe, approximately one million years after the founding of the Interstellar Alliance (2262 AD), humans evolve into beings of energy. They leave Earth for the old [[Vorlon]] homeworld—and ultimately destroy the solar system to keep any remaining technology out of the hands of younger races.
*April 27 of 2,774,020 : Murcheson's Eye explodes into a supernova and becomes a black hole (from ''[[The Mote in God's Eye]]'', by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle).
*ca. 3,000,000: In the show ''[[Red Dwarf]]'', the titular spaceship suffers a radiation leak which kills everyone except for [[Dave Lister]], who was in [[suspended animation]] at the time. Three million years later, Lister emerges from [[stasis (fiction)|stasis]] as the last human being alive.
*5,000,000: According to the documentary ''[[The Future Is Wild]]'', scientists believe that 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.
*7,000,000: in [[John W. Campbell]]'s short story "Twilight" (1934), a man of the IV millennium witnesses the decline of a dull human race, which has colonized the solar system and made machines supply all its needs.
*ca. 8,000,000: The time of [[Zothique]], last continent of Earth, and home to the dying remnants of the human race. The culture is on a barbaric level, and magic has become dominant over science. – (Clark Ashton Smith, ''The Zothique Cycle'')
*10,000,000: ''Doctor Who'' episode ''[[The Ark (Doctor Who)|The Ark]]''.
*10,000,000: Rise of the Second Men; the Martian Wars, and the Ruin of Two Worlds. – Olaf Stapledon, ''[[Last and First Men]]''
*15,000,000: Humanity has completely died out according to Isaac Asimov's book ''The End of Eternity''.
*18,000,000: A "half-plastic denizen" of the interior of a planet beyond Pluto is among those that exchanges mind with the [[Great Race of Yith]]. – ([[H. P. Lovecraft]], ''[[The Shadow Out of Time]]'')
*20,000,000: The approximate date when ''[[The Night Land]]'' is set.
*30,000,000: [[The Time Traveller (character)|The Time Traveller]] finds himself on a shoreline with a thin atmosphere, a black sky with few stars, the moon gone, and no evidence of animal life – except for a single football-sized tentacled creature—H. G. Wells' ''[[The Time Machine]]'' novel
*50,000,000: Following the final end of humanity, a new race of beetle-like insects arises. These are possessed by the Great Race of Yith, leaving their previous home on a planet orbiting a dark star near Taurus. Eventually, even the beetles die out, and the Yithians send their collective minds into a vegetable species living on Mercury. – ([[H. P. Lovecraft]], ''[[The Shadow Out of Time]]'')
*50,000,000: Fauna and geography of [[After Man: A Zoology of the Future]] by Dougal Dixon.
*100,000,000: 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 octopuses, 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.
*200,000,000: In the documentary ''The Future Is Wild'', scientists speculate that in 200 million years' time the world will contain one global ocean and one continent, like [[Pangaea]]. Approximately 100 million years before this time, there was a [[mass extinction]] and now most of the world's land is desert, with a couple of rainforests around the edge. Creatures of this world include air-breathing flying fish, giant [[plankton]], various huge worms, highly specialized insects and intelligent, arboreal land-squid. There are no mammals, no birds, no reptiles, no amphibians, only one species of flowering plants and only sharks left to represent aquatic fish. Other creatures have moved in to fill these niches.
*100,000,000: Main characters live in this year in the show ''[[Time Squad]]''.
*500,000,000: The first primitive life develops on Venus. A Venusian is among those that exchanges minds with the Great Race of Yith. – (H. P. Lovecraft, ''The Shadow Out of Time''; Brian Lumley, ''The Transition of Titus Crow'')
*635,427,810: Time Traveller Alex Hartdegen escapes from the Morlocks, but emerges stunned to see the rust-colored clouds & sunlight of the far future and a broad moon-like landscape laid waste to the horizon, with Morlock ground entrances – and wonders who the bipeds are, walking in the distance – Simon Wells' production ''[[The Time Machine]]'', 2002
*ca. 1,000,000,000: The last inhabitants of Earth, a species of arachnids, live within the interior of the dying world. – (H. P. Lovecraft, ''The Shadow Out of Time'')
*1,000,000,000: Human extinction occurs across the galaxy – (Brian Aldiss, ''Galaxies like Grains of Sand'').
*1,000,000,000: Migration of the Ninth Men to Neptune. – Olaf Stapledon, ''[[Last and First Men]]''
*1,000,000,000: In an episode of "[[Pinky and The Brain]]", nuclear fallout has created a species of super-intelligent cockroaches who intend to take over the world with use of a "world domination kit". Brain, obsessed with taking over the world, steals the kit and returns in a time machine to the 20th century.
*2,000,000,000: End of Man (the Eighteenth Men). – Olaf Stapledon, ''Last and First Men''
*ca. 5,000,000,000: ''[[The End of the World (Doctor Who)|The End of the World]]'' in ''Doctor Who''. The date is given as ''5.5/Apple/26''—implying that the explanation of 5 billion was an approximation.
*5,000,000,023: In the British science fiction television program ''Doctor Who'', in the episode ''[[New Earth]]'', Humans are shown to have moved to a new planet and called it New Earth in the galaxy M87.
*7,500,000,000: Middletown propelled into future – from ''City at World's End'' by [[Edmond Hamilton]].
*10,000,000,000: Arthur C. Clarke's novel, ''[[Against the fall of night]]''.
*17,000,000,000: In Arthur C. Clarke's ''The City and the Stars'' – Mad Mind battles Vanamonde.
*20,000,000,000: The War of Worlds occurs. – Olaf Stapledon's ''[[Star Maker]]''
*30,000,000,000: The Second Galactic Utopia occurs. – Olaf Stapledon's ''Star Maker''
*40,000,000,000: The First Colonization of Dead Stars occurs. – Olaf Stapledon's ''Star Maker''
*50,000,000,000: The Supreme Moment of the Cosmos occurs. – Olaf Stapledon's ''Star Maker''
*ca. 100,000,000,000: The consciousness of all [[Human beings]] fuses into one Man and attempts to solve the [[entropy]] problem with the [[Multivac|Cosmic AC]] in [[Isaac Asimov]]'s ''[[The Last Question]]''.
*400,000,000,000: The [[Ren and Stimpy]] show-within-a-show "Commander Hoek"
*5,000,000,000,000: The Sun dies in [[Olaf Stapledon]]'s history of humanity ''[[Last and First Men]]''.
*ca. 10,000,000,000,000: [[Human|Man]] fuses with [[Multivac|AC]] and [[Entropy]] destroys the universe in [[Isaac Asimov]]'s ''[[The Last Question]]''.
*100,000,000,000,000: In the British science fiction television program [[Doctor Who]], in the episode ''[[Utopia (Doctor Who)|Utopia]]'', Humans are shown to have moved to a new planet as refugees and are waiting to fly to Utopia to escape what is implied to be The [[Big Crunch]] or heat death, also known as the End of the Universe. As indicated in dialogue in the episode, after having evolved into different forms over the millennia, humans by this time have re-evolved back into the same humanoid form known today.
*1,500,000,000,000,000: Stars evaporate from galaxies in Stephen Baxter's ''[[Ring (Stephen Baxter novel)|Ring]]''.
*500,000,000,000,000,000,000 (500 quintillion): In Stephen Baxter's ''[[Manifold: Time]]'' novel, the last descendants 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]] from happening at this time.

==See also==
* [[Exasecond and longer]]
* [[Futurology]]
* [[Ultimate fate of the universe]]

==References==
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[[sl:6. tisočletje in pozneje]]
[[zh:第11千年及以后]]

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