“No further invitations were sent to the school but for about six months, someone kept leaving dog turds on my doorstep. Maud and Irene always seemed to have alibis.”

Timeline of the Universe: Beyond 10,000 AD

• 10,000-15,000 AD - The hypernova of Eta Carinae is affecting our region of the galaxy
• 19,500 AD - Betelgeuse is colliding with a dusty wall
• 22,000 AD - The Chernobyl disaster site becomes fully safe
• 30,000 AD - The first wave of sub-light vessels has reached the galactic core
• 35,000 AD - Ross 248 becomes the closest star to our Sun
• 42,000 AD - Voyager 1 is passing near the red dwarf star, AC+79 3888
• 52,000 AD - The KEO time capsule re-enters the Earth’s atmosphere
• 100,000 AD - The red hypergiant star, VY Canis Majoris, has exploded by now, producing one of the largest supernovas the galaxy has ever seen
• 200,000 AD - Constellations visible from Earth have been rendered unrecognisable
• 298,000 AD - Voyager 2 is approaching Sirius
• 1,000,000 AD - Planet-sized computers are dominating the Local Group of galaxies; humanity’s descendants are a Type 3 civilisation on the Kardashev scale
• 1,400,000 AD - The Oort Cloud is being disrupted by the approach of Gliese 710
• 2,000,000 AD - Pioneer 10 is approaching the Aldebaran system
• 4,000,000 AD - Pioneer 11 is approaching the Lambda Aquilae system
• 6,800,000 AD - DNA from the 21st century has completely decayed
• 7,200,000 AD - Mount Rushmore has eroded away
• 7,600,000 AD - Phobos is ripped apart by Mars’ gravity
• 8,400,000 AD - LAGEOS-1 returns to Earth
• 10,000,000 AD - Earth is being threatened by lethal levels of gamma radiation | Triton’s decaying orbit has led to it breaking up around Neptune, forming a new ring system
• 27,000,000 AD - Smith’s Cloud is colliding and merging with our Milky Way galaxy
• 30,000,000 - 40,000,000 AD - At some point during this period, an asteroid 10-20 km in size comes on a direct collision course with Earth
• 50,000,000 AD - Africa merges with Europe, forming a new mountain range to rival the Himalayas
• 100,000,000 AD - The Milky Way galaxy has stabilised from an earlier collision
• 150,000,000 AD - The Atlantic Ocean begins to close
• 225,000,000 AD - Sol completes one galactic year
• 250,000,000 AD - A supercontinent is forming on Earth
• 600,000,000 AD - Total solar eclipses are no longer possible on Earth
• 750,000,000 AD - The Sagittarius dwarf galaxy has been absorbed into the larger Milky Way
• 1,000,000,000 AD - Earth is becoming too hot to support liquid water
• 3,800,000,000 AD - The Andromeda Galaxy has begun to collide and merge with our own Milky Way galaxy
• 5,000,000,000 AD - Sol is a red giant
• 12,000,000,000 AD - Sol is shrinking to become a black dwarf
• 100,000,000,000 AD - The Virgo Supercluster is converging into a single galaxy
• 1,000,000,000,000 AD - Star formation is declining in many galaxies
• 2,000,000,000,000 AD - Galaxies beyond the Local Supercluster are no longer visible
• 20,000,000,000,000 AD - Red dwarf stars are dying
• 100,000,000,000,000 AD - The end of the stellar era
• 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 AD - The degenerate era of the universe
• 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 AD - The black hole era of the universe
• Beyond 10¹⁰⁰ - The dark era of the universe

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