Future Timeline

[DEATHMASTER]

Imagine you are in a starship floating amid the dark space. As time goes by, Nuclei disintegrate spontaneously.

How so? I would think Nuclear fusion alone would be simple enough for the future species. Let alone something eons more advanced.

 

[bbson john]

How so? I would think Nuclear fusion alone would be simple enough for the future species. Let alone something eons more advanced.

Nah, you don't understand the time scale. Both fusion and fission will got to the terminate point long before the death of all stars. Both of them will create iron-56 as end product, with the lowest bonding energy and cannot produce any more nuclear energy. Note that this is the theoretical limit, not just the limit of some practical reasons.

If we consider a larger scale of time, protons themselves decay; which lead to essentially everything we are familiar with disintegrates and decays. Every substances that human use to make stuff will go away.
By then, it is like we have to create some lego mdels for us to survive, but every single of our lego blocks are lost and cannot be found. There is no way, man. No way.

 

[DEATHMASTER]

We'll have to learn to violin them strings and sing us some positruns.

 

[Warped]

So its going to take another 20,000 years to make all the radiation around Chernobyl safe?

That's pretty mind blowing

I bet its even less. new evidence shows that we can create microbes that could very well eat radioactivity, if not Mushrooms can help greatly as well.

 

[Raziaar]

By the time the universe cools, will orbital decay for all planets have come to pass? Is there any sort of estimated orbital decay times for various planets?

I was just thinking of the interesting possibility of stars like Sol fading out, but moons like IO still ticking and volcanically active due to their orbital tug of war between Jupiter and the other moons.

 

[Warped]

By the time the universe cools, will orbital decay for all planets have come to pass? Is there any sort of estimated orbital decay times for various planets?

I was just thinking of the interesting possibility of stars like Sol fading out, but moons like IO still ticking and volcanically active due to their orbital tug of war between Jupiter and the other moons.

shit is probably happening now, we have barely observed and who knows if our Sun will be here in a weeks time.

 

[bbson john]

Moons usually slow down due to friction. The orbits decay and crash into the planet. Of course, they will be tore apart by tidal force before crashing.

btw, I have head that Earth will collide on Mars some day.

 

[Remus]

Imagine you are in a starship floating amid the dark space. As time goes by, Nuclei disintegrate spontaneously. Each proton in the ship decay one by one. The ship is not running out of ordinary material and energy. It is running out of the fundermental building block of matter itself. No matter what you build, they disintegrate slowly, without any process to slow it down.

The ship loses its mass and size day by day. People in the ship will treasure each cosmic proton they come across in the space. However, the gathering of cosmic protons will never be quick enough to catch up with the decay as the ship come across less proton day after day. Soon, the ship reduced to half of its mass, so as the people. Then, one quater. Then one eigth... Until nothing left in the space but I bunch of chaotic neutrinos, photons; and electron-positron pairs which will ultimate self-annihilate, if they are close enough for posible annihilation. They will now be any mark on the existence of the ship. There will not be any record for the ever existed glorious and posperous intelligent races, i.e. human and the like. Entrop reaches the ultimate maximum and stationary value. No imformation exists and no interaction can be done.

It is inevitable.

Finally, someone that understands the concept of the end of the Universe.

 

[15357]

In the future, I will meld myself with a self-improving AI, thus becoming the pinnacle of human knowledge. I would be the ultimate holder of all of mankind's knowledge, and my omnipotent abilities would render me a God. The transhuman caste of individuals that have melded themselves with cybernetics would be my angels, and they would be the bridge between the organics and myself, allowing them to understand what God's will is. The advancement of humanity will be dependent on myself as whatever the organic humans may do, they would be simply irrelevant. I would outdo in a second anything that they collectively could do in a thousand years. My angels would enforce God's law upon the organics, and they will all obey.

And aliens will be killed.

 

[Remus]

Well I'm glad all this speculation ponders to your megalomaniacal side, Numbers.

 

[repiV]

A projection that is both awesome and scary.

Personally I think technology for personal use can be more of a curse than a blessing. A significantly higher proportion of kids these days than in the past have no social skills or graces, propensity for risk-taking or sense of adventure because they spend most of their lives in front of a computer talking to fake friends or immersed in a fake reality. Not to mention the lack of attention span, concentration and discipline as all the information you ever need is on tap to be absorbed in bite-sized chunks.

And what is with a bunch of people sitting round tapping away on their mobile phones, laptops or transfixed on the TV - basically anything except actually talking to each other? Happens all the bloody time. So antisocial.

The thought of the whole world being permanently tapped into a virtual world and never seeing the light of day is quite a grim one.

It will, however, be fantastic when technology is sufficient to allow us access to infinite resources. At that point life will change irrevocably, as everyone will be able to devote their lives to what they want to do, rather than what they have to. Currency will become obsolete overnight.

 

[Eejit]

repiV: a grumpy old pensioner from the age of 20.

 

[The Monkey]

What I don't understand in this timeline is how the 21st and 22nd centuries, the whole world has gone to shit due to climate change etc., and humanity still makes huge leaps of progress in the technological area. Where would they find the resources to do that?

 

[repiV]

repiV: a grumpy old pensioner from the age of 20.

In that case, the old have become young and the young have become the elderly. Being young is supposed to be about going out and having a good time and experiencing new things, not living a reclusive existence revolving around the internet.

Also, what's with people who update their Facebook status on a night out to tell the world they're having a good time? Can't be that great if you're sitting there on bloody Facebook.

 

[bbson john]

Finally, someone that understands the concept of the end of the Universe.

But I doubt proton decay is true. We have been looking at kilotonnes of water 24/7. Never observed once. :|

What I don't understand in this timeline is how the 21st and 22nd centuries, the whole world has gone to shit due to climate change etc., and humanity still makes huge leaps of progress in the technological area. Where would they find the resources to do that?

lol we don't need coral reef for technological advance.

 

[Druckles]

Did it have a supercomputer in it? Because I read that too.

At some point, yes. I believe that was where it started.

 

[DEATH eVADER]

I'm interested in the 4th generation of nuclear reactors, because its one step closer to Fallout

 

[Remus]

I'm interested in the 4th generation of nuclear reactors, because its one step closer to Fallout

Yeah that's interesting too, but I'm more interested in the immortal god like creature thing...

 

[DEATH eVADER]

Today, the average citizen has access to a wide array of biotechnology implants and personal medical devices. These include fully artificial organs that never fail, bionic eyes and ears providing Superman-like senses, nanoscale brain interfaces which greatly augment the wearer's intelligence, synthetic blood and bodily fluids which can filter deadly toxins and provide hours’ worth of oxygen in a single breath.

We the mighty Space Marines serve the God Emporer

 

[NeptuneUK]

Thanks for the site, it's an enjoyable speculative read.
*reads more*
Interesting stuff, I just think some of the things mentioned are happening a little too soon.
ALSO CYBORG SUPERPOWERS AND LASERS

 

[DEATH eVADER]

ALSO CYBORG SUPERPOWERS AND LASERS

 

[Remus]

When people think of the singularity and the idea of merging with technology, they are afraid because they make the mistake of envisioning something horrifying like, the above Terminator, Robocop, or the Borg. In reality a synthetic body would have all the positive properties of a normal human body, none of the disadvantages plus many more abilities.

 

[The Monkey]

lol we don't need coral reef for technological advance.

Surely resources would be put on dealing with billions of refugees and a desert eating away half the country rather than on developing "transhumans"?

 

[Remus]

Surely resources would be put on dealing with billions of refugees and a desert eating away half the country rather than on developing "transhumans"?

Transhumans/Space travel > Everything else

 

[15357]

Transhumans/Space travel > Everything else

Exactly. **** nature, what has she ever done for us?

 

[Remus]

Exactly. **** nature, what has she ever done for us?

In that speculative timeline it says that we completely **** up the environment, and that 90% of the biosphere is gone. However 2 centuries later we get our shit together and restore Earth to it's former beauty.

My question is this: by the time the whole restoration operation begins we're so unfathomably advanced we wouldn't need nature the biosphere etc. so why would we bother to restore Earth?

The only plausible answer is, out of a sense of nostalgia, out of sentimentality.

 

[Interface]

Except no one on Earth would have the slightest concept of what pure nature was or why it was beautiful. Hard to feel sentimental towards or nostalgic about something I've never experienced.

 

[dfc05]

2020-2050 is pretty sad. Particularly things like this:
http://www.futuretimeline.net/21stcentury/2030-2039.htm#arctic-ice

I remember reading an article regarding Arctic sea lanes already being open (through the winter) a couple of years ago. According to a quick google search, they actually predict 2015 for no sea ice during the summer.

A couple of years ago, I attended some professor's lecture in which he said that polar bears/the Arctic are basically screwed no matter what we do. It's probably true.

And to the above discussion: Because animals are cool. I bet you'd bring back dinosaurs if you could.

Also, don't know if this has been mentioned here already but:
22,000 AD - The Chernobyl disaster site becomes fully safe
Holy crap. That's sad.

 

[Remus]

Except no one on Earth would have the slightest concept of what pure nature was or why it was beautiful. Hard to feel sentimental towards or nostalgic about something I've never experienced.

Yeah except that people from the late 20th century are still alive. So it was probably them out of a feeling of guilt that started the restoration project.

EDIT: Oh you're banned, never mind then...

 

[DEATH eVADER]

I was looking at where humanity will be in the next 1000 years and it does startle me. At this exponential rate the ideas are limitless as to where we would be in 10,000 years time. Is it possible through advances in technology and science that within this timeframe you could mess with the very fabric of space time and elementary particles that we could someday create our own universe, and thus manipulate a backwater planet, and take what you learned from this planet and apply it to other planets and see the results. Perhaps its inhabitants would start praying and worshipping to you; would you even care?

 

[Eejit]

Screw all that shit, I just want us to join the Culture.

 

[Remus]

Hail satan.

 

[Druckles]

 

[Calhoun]

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[Remus]

^^ Oh LOL.

Also for some reason the view counter seems to be stuck at 666. :O

 

[Eejit]

Oh shit, is somebody Ascending?

 

[Druckles]

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