What If You Traveled One Billion Years Into the Future?

If you

traveled

10,000

years

into the

future

,

what

would planet Earth be like? Would most of its surface be covered in volcanoes or frozen in ice? What if you

traveled

even further, to a million

years

in the

future

, would they have all the oceans? Would it have evaporated or become a giant water world? Well,

what

if in a

billion

years there would be humans left or they would have settled in other parts of the galaxy? This is what if and this is what would happen if you traveled a

billion

years into the future, let's face it, the chances of any human being greeting you when you arrive a billion years in the future are pretty low.

Several key existential threats face the human race and if we want to exist a billion years from now we will need to withstand them all, we have seen how much we have struggled to unite just to survive a global pandemic so how do we have any chance of withstanding the threats of change? Climate change, overpopulation, global nuclear war, killer asteroids and comets, natural ice ages and the sun is getting much hotter, well, let's take a look into the future and find out that in ten thousand years we will encounter a big problem called deca millennium bug in the year ten thousand adware that encodes the ad calendar the year will not encode dates with more than four decimal places, remember y2k, yes it is like that, except hopefully we won't panic as much this time on the side Positively, within 10,000 years, genetic differences and traits between humans will no longer be regional traits. as skin and hair color will be evenly distributed throughout the world maybe that will help us all get along finally twenty thousand years in the future none of the current languages ​​will be recognizable future languages ​​will contain only the one by cent of the core vocabulary of your present The equivalent days in fifty thousand years will mark a new glacial period for the Earth that will begin a new ice age.

Niagara Falls will have completely eroded into Lake Erie, and interestingly, a full day on Earth will also increase by one second at this point. Much more time for activities In 250,000 years the Loihi volcano will rise above the water to form a new island in Hawaii and in 500,000 years an asteroid with a diameter greater than a kilometer is likely to hit the earth unless we can avoid it. The resulting crater will be no less than 400 kilometers in diameter, will cause fires all over the planet and will make the air unbreathable, so there is something to look forward to and, in case that is not enough, in 1 million years we will probably have another super volcanic eruption.

Large enough to spew 3,200 cubic kilometers of ash, it would produce enough lava to fill 75 parts of the Grand Canyon. This would be similar to the Toba eruption that nearly wiped out humanity 70,000 years ago. Oh, and the nearby star Beetlejuice will have exploded in By then, a supernova will be visible from Earth even during daylight in the year 2 million AD, humanity will have settlements throughout the solar system, this also means that if populations in different planets have remained separate, humans may have evolved into other species adapted to their specific world. In 10 million years, a large part of East Africa will separate, forming a new ocean basin.

In 50 million years, Africa will collide with Eurasia, closing the Mediterranean Sea, and a new mountain range will form between the two land masses. This mountain range may include a A mountain taller than Mount Everest in space Mars will collide with its moon, causing a Saturn-like ring system to develop in 60 million years. The Canadian and American Rockies will have been completely eroded in 80 million years. All of the Hawaiian islands will be underwater in 100 million years an asteroid similar to the one that killed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago will likely hit the earth one that is 10 kilometers wide in 250 million years all of the continents of the earth They will merge like Pangea except this time it will be called Pangea ultima but don't get too attached to it because in 400 to 500 million years Pangea ultima will break apart again.

In 500 to 600 million years, a gamma ray burst will probably occur 6,500 light years from Earth. If it hits Earth, it could damage the ozone layer. and trigger a mass extinction within 600 million years the moon will be so far from the earth that total solar eclipses will no longer be possible and the sun's increasing luminosity will have raised temperatures on earth so much that it could stop the movement of plates. tectonics in 800 million years carbon dioxide levels will drop dramatically and photosynthesis will no longer be possible, free oxygen and ozone will disappear from the atmosphere and complex life on Earth will die and finally, within a billion years, The luminosity of the sun will have increased by 10 percent and the average temperature on Earth will be 47 degrees Celsius, our atmosphere will feel like a humid greenhouse and our oceans will evaporate leaving only pockets of water at each of the poles.

When you get here in your time machine, mentally prepare yourself to behold a planet Earth that looks nothing like the one you remember, the human race will be gone, hopefully living its best life on some other distant planet due to the intense heat, lack of water and lack of breathable air, the land will be uninhabitable, so you probably shouldn't stay too low. You should go out and see the rest of the solar system, maybe you'll find your fellow humans there or some other intelligent life, but that's a story for another, what if