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move with Squarespace. Humanity has been
around for about 200,000 years and has
experienced a massive amount of change
already. From our starting point in
Africa, we've managed to colonize the
entire world at this point and even
reached as far away as the moon. The
Bering land bridge that once connected
Asia and North America with one another
has long since been submerged beneath
the ocean, so if humanity exists for
another billion years, then what
additional changes or events can we
reasonably expect to happen? Well,
starting at about ten thousand years
into the future, we will encounter the
year 10,000 problem. Software that
encodes the AD calendar year as a four
digit decimal will no longer be able to
encode dates starting at 10,000 AD. Iit
will be a real Y10K, and in addition,
if current trends of globalization
continues, then human genetic variation
will no longer be regionalised by this
point, meaning that all human genetic
traits like skin color and hair color
will be evenly distributed across the
world. *Seizure Warning* In 20,000 years from now future
languages will only contain one out of
every 100 core vocabulary words of their
present-day
counterparts. Essentially no modern
language will be recognizable by this
point. In 50,000 years earth will enter
into another glacial period regardless
of current global warming effects.
Niagara Falls will have completely
eroded away into Lake Erie and ceased to
exist and due to glacial rebound and
erosion. The many lakes of the Canadian
Shield will also cease to exist. Also, one
full day on Earth will have increased by
one full second requiring a leap second
to be added to every day. In 100,000
years for now the stars and
constellations visible from Earth will
be completely different than they are
from today. Also, this is the estimated
amount of time that it would take to
fully terraform Mars into a habitable
planet similar to the Earth. In 250,000
years, the Lo-ihi Volcano will rise
above the surface and form a new island
in the Hawaiian island chain. In five
hundred thousand years from now Earth
will have likely been struck by an
asteroid measuring one kilometer in
diameter
unless humanity
artificially prevents it. Additionally,
the Badlands National Park in South
Dakota will have completely eroded away
by this point. In 950,000 years the
meteor crater in Arizona, which is
considered the best preserved meteorite
impact crater on Earth will have
completely eroded away. in 1 million
years Earth will have likely experienced
a super volcanic eruption large enough
to erupt 3200 cubic kilometers of ash, an
event similar to the Toba super eruption
70,000 years ago that almost made
humanity extinct. In addition, the star
Betelgeuse will have exploded into a
supernova by this point and the
explosion will be easily visible from
Earth even during the daytime. In 2,000,000
years, the Grand Canyon will have
eroded even more significantly; slightly
deepening, but it will mostly widen out
into a large Valley. If humanity has
colonized two different planets in the
solar system and the universe by this
point and the populations on each planet
have remained separate from one another,
then humanity will have likely evolved
into various different species at this
point. These different human species will
be adapted to their different planets
and may not be aware of the other human
species located in the rest of the
universe. in 10,000,000 years a large
part of East Africa will split off from
the rest of the continent. A new ocean
basin will form between the two sides,
and Africa will be divided into two
separate land masses. In 50,000,000 years
Phobos, a moon of Mars, will collide with
the planet causing massive destruction
there. Back on Earth, the remaining part
of Africa will collide with Eurasia and
close off the Mediterranean Sea forever.
A new mountain range similar in size to
the Himalayas will form between the now
connected land masses and may possibly
produce a mountain that is higher than
Mount Everest. In 60,000,000 years the
Canadian Rockies will have completely
eroded into a flat plain. In 80,000,000
years from now all of the Hawaiian
Islands will have sunk back beneath the
ocean, and in 100,000,000 years the earth
will have likely been struck by an
asteroid similar to the event that wiped
out the dinosaurs 66,000,000 years ago,
assuming of course that it isn't
artificially prevented. In addition, at
this point in the future the rings
around the planet Saturn
will no longer exist. In 240,000,000
years Earth will have finally completed
one full orbit around the galactic
center from its current position. In
250,000,000 years all of the continents on
Earth will have fused together to form a
supercontinent similar to Pangaea. A
possible name for this continent is
Pangaea Ultima and it will probably look
something sort of like this image. Then,
in 400,000,000 - 500,000,000 years the
supercontinent will break apart once
again. In 500,000,000 - 600,000,000 years a
deadly gamma ray burst will likely occur
within six-and-a-half thousand light
years of Earth. If conditions are right,
or wrong, if you prefer, the burst could
strike Earth and severely damage the
ozone layer which would cause a mass
extinction event. in 600,000,000 years
the moon will have moved far enough away
from Earth that total solar eclipses
will no longer be possible after this
date. In addition, the sun's increasing
luminosity will cause severe effects on
Earth. Plate tectonic movements will stop
at this point, and carbon dioxide levels
in the atmosphere will decrease
dramatically. C3 photosynthesis will no
longer be possible at this point and 99%
of current plant life on Earth will die.
In 800,000,000 years CO2
levels will have continued to fall to
the point where C4 photosynthesis will
no longer be possible. Free oxygen and
ozone disappear from the atmosphere, and
all complex life on Earth will die.
Finally in 1 billion years the sun's
luminosity will have increased 10% from
its current state. The surface
temperature on Earth will rise to a
sweltering 47 degrees Celsius on average.
The atmosphere will turn into a moist
greenhouse, and the world's oceans will
evaporate away. Pockets of liquid water
may still exist at the Earth's poles,
however, which means that they will
probably become the last bastion of life
on our planet. A lot will change over the
course of a billion years but a lot has
changed in the last billion years as
well. In addition to the things that
we've talked about in this video, who
knows what else a billion years could
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