End
Of The World Events SummaryEnd
Of The World Events SummaryLast revised: 05/22/01 07:29 PM
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(When possible, Ordered by Probability and Predicted Date)
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YEARS |
PROBABILITY |
EVENT |
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Unknown |
SolarFlares and Super SolarFlares |
|
|
Unknown |
X-ray energy burst. |
|
|
Unknown |
Gas jet from newborn star. |
|
|
Unknown |
Milky Way becomes an Active Galaxy. |
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|
10 |
1/5 |
|
| 50 | 1/10,000 | "Widespread Devastation" Asteroid Impact. |
| 500 | 1/100,000 | "Impact Winter" Asteroid Impact. |
|
1000 |
1/100,000 |
|
|
2,000 |
50% |
Geomagnetic reversals of North/South poles. |
|
2K to 20,000 |
50% |
|
|
2,130 |
100% |
|
|
1K to 50,000 |
50% |
Solar system encounters Local Fluff clouds. |
|
50,000 |
100% |
Solar system enters the Aquila Rift region. |
|
100,000 |
100% |
"Widespread Devastation" Asteroid Impact (abt 5 megatons) |
|
1,000,000 |
100% |
|
|
100K to 1,000,000 |
50% |
SuperNova shockwave from Antares, Betelgeuse or Eta Carinae. |
|
1,300,000 |
100% |
Gliese 710 comes within 1 ly and perturbs Oort Cloud. |
|
90,000,000 |
100% |
Aging/hotter Sun starts reducing CO2 levels below what C3 plants need. |
|
110,000,000 |
50% |
Solar system enters galactic spiral arm. |
|
1K to 200,000,000 |
100% |
Continental drift has radically changed the land mass of Earth. |
|
500,000,000 |
100% |
Aging/hotter Sun has reduced CO2 levels to below what C3 plants need and most plants die. |
|
750,000,000 |
100% |
Aging/hotter Sun starts evaporation of the oceans. |
|
100% |
Aging/hotter Sun has evaporated oceans. Bacteria die. |
|
|
1/10,000,000 |
Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) from PSR B1534+12 3,500 ly away. |
|
| 100% | Milky Way and Andromeda Galaxies start merging. | |
|
3,500,000,000 |
1/100,000 | Earth ejected from Solar system during next 3.5 billion years. |
|
5,000,000,000 |
100% |
Aging Sun starts expansion into a Red Giant and engulfs earth. |
|
~10,000,000,000 |
100% |
Local Galaxy Group and Virgo clusters merge. |
|
11,000,000,000 |
50% |
Saturn's moon Titan in Sun's Life Zone. |
|
13,000,000,000 |
100% |
Sun becomes a White Dwarf. |
|
100% |
Local Super Cluster Group and The Great Attractor merge. |
|
| 2,000,000,000,000 |
100% |
Objects outside our own cluster of galaxies will no longer be observable. |
| 1x1014 to 1x1037 | Stelliferous Era ends & Degenerate Era begins. | |
| 1x1015 to 1x1019 | Galactic cores collapse. | |
|
1x1027 |
Most of the stars in all galaxies will have died. |
|
|
1x1032 |
Proton decay will start. |
|
| 1x1038 to 1x10100 |
Black Hole Era begins. |
|
|
Dark Era begins. |