The History of the Future

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The History of the Future; From now on
Topic Started: Oct 6 2010, 02:36 PM (1,398 Views)
Dromaeosaurus	Oct 6 2010, 02:36 PM Post #1
Haemothermic orthostatic matrotrophic lexiphanic deuterostome Posts: 665 Group: Members Member #378 Joined: Sep 5, 2010 Nationality: Italy (it's somewhere in the Virgo Supercluster, I think) Also known as: Concavenator	There's a project on which I'm working from about an year. It's a fictional history of the future made of seven chapters, each of which deals with a time period ten times longer than the former one. It focuses first on humans, then of future evolution on Earth, and last on death of the Earth, the Sun and the gradual Universe shutdown. The chapters are (titles may change): 1. The Next Future (from now to 1000 years hence) 2. The Sea of Stars (1000 to 10 000 years hence) 3. Return to Earth (10 000 to 100 000 years hence) 4. In Remembrance of Man (100 000 to 1 million years hence) 5. Bones and Genes (1 to 10 millions years hence) 6. Continents' Dance (10 to 100 millions years hence) 7. The Last Life (100 millions to 1 billion years hence) Then there's an addendum that deals with time from 1 billion years hence to the Heat Death of the Universe. In the next post I'll describe more in detail the argument of each chapter.
	My deviantART page - My other extra-project work - Natural History of Horus and its flora and fauna - A graphic history of life (also here) - AuxLang Project: a worldwide language - Behold THE MEGACLADOGRAM - World Without West: an alternate history SpecEvo Tutorials: Habitable Solar Systems (galaxies, stars and moons); Planets (geology, oceans and atmosphere); Ecology (energy, biomes and relationships); Alternative Biochemistry (basic elements, solvents, pigments); Biomechanics (body structure, skeletons, locomotion); Bioenergetics (photosynthesis, digestion, respiration); Perception (sense organs and nervous system); Reproduction (from genetics to childbirth); Offense and Defense (camouflage, poisons and weapons); Intelligence (EQ, consciousness and smartest animals); Civilizations (technology, domestication and culture); Exotic Life (living crystals, nuclear life, 2D biology); Evolution (genetics, selection and speed); Phylogeny (trees of life); Guide to Naming (how to name your creations) (and more!) My projects here: Natural History of Horus (19th century naturalists... in space) Galactic Anthropology (intelligence takes many forms around the Milky Way) Settlers from the Deep (a tour in a blind and slimy future) Coming soon: A Matter of Time (a history of the future... all of it)


Forbiddenparadise64	Oct 6 2010, 03:23 PM Post #2
Adult Posts: 846 Group: Members Member #270 Joined: Feb 15, 2010 Area of expertise: Future Evolution Nationality: English (and not proud) Favorite Quote: "Treat others as you would like them to treat you" Matthew 7:12	Sounds interesting, although the last phase 100million to 1 billion years seems a tad far. I think the most that can be predicted realistically is 250-300 million years. Anyway, can't wait to find out more!
	Prepare for the Future Walking with the future: Allozoic (pts 4-6)http://s1.zetaboards.com/Conceptual_Evolution/topic/3252142/14/#new


Dromaeosaurus	Oct 6 2010, 03:46 PM Post #3
Haemothermic orthostatic matrotrophic lexiphanic deuterostome Posts: 665 Group: Members Member #378 Joined: Sep 5, 2010 Nationality: Italy (it's somewhere in the Virgo Supercluster, I think) Also known as: Concavenator	Actually, that chapter deals with the next Pangaea and the overheating of Earth due to the expansion of the Sun. The description of evolution is very vague on that scale: 500 million years hence there are spiders, flies, algae and some sort of mammals, but I'm not more specific. By the way, due to time zone I won't be able to post in the next 12-14 hours, I'm sorry. Edited by Dromaeosaurus, Oct 6 2010, 03:48 PM.
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Dayshade	Oct 6 2010, 07:03 PM Post #4
Adolescent Posts: 175 Group: Members Member #387 Joined: Sep 18, 2010 Gender: Private Area of expertise: Future Evolution	I don't think 1 billion years will be the last life. Bacteria and Archaea will definitely survive until the oceans begin boiling off, and perhaps farther than that. Eukaryotes might only last until 1 billion, though.



Toad of Spades	Oct 6 2010, 07:50 PM Post #5
Clorothod Posts: 624 Group: Members Member #114 Joined: Dec 27, 2008 Nationality: United States Favorite Quote: Street smart is just an excuse for dumb people to use the word smart to describe themselves.	Why only 1 billion years into the future? Also wouldn't animal life be around until at least 3-4 billion years in the future?
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Dromaeosaurus	Oct 7 2010, 06:40 AM Post #6
Haemothermic orthostatic matrotrophic lexiphanic deuterostome Posts: 665 Group: Members Member #378 Joined: Sep 5, 2010 Nationality: Italy (it's somewhere in the Virgo Supercluster, I think) Also known as: Concavenator	I've read Life and Death of Planet Earth by Peter Ward and Donald Brownlee and, if I'm not wrong, it states that about one billion years the oceans could have already boiled. Also, this is what I plan to cover in chapter 7 (Every chapter is made of 5-7 subchapter that deals with a more specific argument): 7.1. New Pangaea (the new supercontinent) (100-250 myh) 7.2. The Sea of Dust (biological and climatic consequences of the new Pangaea) (200-300 myh) 7.3. The Geological Mausoleum (generally the new life on this supercontinent) (200-300 myh) 7.4. An Atlantis of Worms (life in the oceanic depth) (300-400 myh) 7.5. Deadly Light (overheating of Earth) (500-700 myh) 7.6. Return to the Origins (extinction of plants and life on dry land) (700-800 myh) 7.7. Crystal Forests (sort of crystalline lifeforms) (900-1000 myh) myh = million years hence ____________________ Also, I plan to describe in chapters 4 to 6 some descendants of humans. After mankind left Earth, it was inhabited only by a few research stations, like Antarctica today. Here were performed genetic experiments that led to creation of a new human species very similar to us, but less smart ans stronger. This species could survived after the last researchers died, and adapted to fill the niches left by the man-caused extinctions. The last human species goes extinct about 750 million years hence, one of the last animals on planet Earth. Edited by Dromaeosaurus, Oct 7 2010, 02:01 PM.
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Scrublord	Oct 10 2010, 05:55 PM Post #7
Father Pellegrini Posts: 4,423 Group: Members Member #169 Joined: May 5, 2009 Gender: Male Area of expertise: Future Evolution Nationality: American (unfortunately) Favorite Quote: Life can seem a challenge. Life can seem impossible. It's never easy when there's so much on the line.	But we all know Peter Ward has all the brains of a jellyfish.
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Dayshade	Oct 10 2010, 08:20 PM Post #8
Adolescent Posts: 175 Group: Members Member #387 Joined: Sep 18, 2010 Gender: Private Area of expertise: Future Evolution	The oceans aren't going to boil at 1 billion. After that.



Dromaeosaurus	Oct 11 2010, 06:50 AM Post #9
Haemothermic orthostatic matrotrophic lexiphanic deuterostome Posts: 665 Group: Members Member #378 Joined: Sep 5, 2010 Nationality: Italy (it's somewhere in the Virgo Supercluster, I think) Also known as: Concavenator	...So, when do you think it could happen? (Squibbonator, why do you say that?)
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chillypaz2010	Nov 14 2010, 09:45 AM Post #10
Infant Posts: 86 Group: Members Member #416 Joined: Oct 17, 2010 Area of expertise: Xenobiology Favorite Quote: shmowzow!	I think this is a great topic. However,life would last longer than 1 billion years in the future.
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Dromaeosaurus	Nov 17 2010, 12:42 PM Post #11
Haemothermic orthostatic matrotrophic lexiphanic deuterostome Posts: 665 Group: Members Member #378 Joined: Sep 5, 2010 Nationality: Italy (it's somewhere in the Virgo Supercluster, I think) Also known as: Concavenator	First of all, I'm sorry for my late reply. When life could go extinct? Basing on what I read, I wrote a chronology like this: 500 myh - desertification of Equator; life retires toward Poles and sea; 600 myh - average global temperature of 40°C (104 °F), extinction of land plants; 750 myh - average global temperature of 60°C (140 °F); ocean begin to evaporate; the last post-human species, Telanthropus profundus, goes extinct. Could we, maybe, delay these date to (I'm guessing) 700, 1000, 1500 myh? Edited by Dromaeosaurus, Nov 17 2010, 12:43 PM.
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Pando	Nov 17 2010, 12:50 PM Post #12
Obey or I'll send you to the moon Posts: 5,648 Group: Members Member #275 Joined: Feb 24, 2010 Area of expertise: Future Evolution	I would put the starting date of the start of the loss of Earth life at 750-1000 million years into the future. The sun isn't that big, it's got some time before it starts expanding. As for the human species, if they survive the next few hundred years we'll be off the Earth and in space, so the expanding sun won't affect us.



Dromaeosaurus	Nov 17 2010, 01:37 PM Post #13
Haemothermic orthostatic matrotrophic lexiphanic deuterostome Posts: 665 Group: Members Member #378 Joined: Sep 5, 2010 Nationality: Italy (it's somewhere in the Virgo Supercluster, I think) Also known as: Concavenator	Like I wrote in post n. 6, only a small population of human being was on Earth after about 10 000 years hence. The rest of mankind, yes, had gone to live in other star systems. So, I write only about that small fraction, but probably there are more post-human species at time of seventh chapter.
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Dromaeosaurus	Dec 1 2010, 07:55 AM Post #14
Haemothermic orthostatic matrotrophic lexiphanic deuterostome Posts: 665 Group: Members Member #378 Joined: Sep 5, 2010 Nationality: Italy (it's somewhere in the Virgo Supercluster, I think) Also known as: Concavenator	Sorry for double post, but tha last one is many days old. These are the post-human species that evolve on Earth. They spread from Middle East. *Homo nivalis (62000-198000). Still man-like, but covered in white fur and armed with sharp teeth and claws. It evolved during an ice age and lives in Euroasiatic tundra. *Arcthomo sp. (3-28 myh). A post-human that took the big erbivore niche in greek and italian forests. It's similar to a gorilla or a giant panda. It's covered in red-brown fur. It goes extinct due to desertification. *Arborhomo lentus (15-28 myh). A sloth-like post-human that dwell on tree branches in the german deciduous forest. It also goes extinct by desertification. *Fossoriulus sp. (15-65 myh). A very little, mole-like post-human. It's almost blind, has a pale hairless skin and it's no longer than 15 cm (6 in). It digs with the big hands under the african prairies. *Homoëquus agricola (20-48 myh). A quadrupedal, horse-like or gazelle-like post-human. It has long legs, and hoof-like knuckles and toes. It feeds on grass in the plains of central Asia. *Myrmevenatrix inequalis (20-37 myh). An insect-eater, slightly anteater-like. It has a long snout with a wormlike tongue, wide nails to dig in the anthills and striped fur. It also dwells the asiatic plains. *Homolarus nimborum (40-70 myh). A flying post-human. It has bat-like wings, but with two extended fingers only. It feeds on fish in the Atlantic ocean, and has long, needle-like teeth and legs modified for grasping preys. After 70 myh, only the aquatic post-human survive: *Phocanthropus guttatus (20-45 myh). A seal-like aquatic post-human. It has a hairless spotted skin and legs fused in a tail. It lives in the Mediterranean, until the sea disappears. *Homotriturus parvus (60-102 myh). It's a descendant of P. guttatus. It's very small, no more than 30 cm (1 ft) long and it's one of the Homolarus' favourite prey. *Phocanthropus profundus (235-312 myh). Another descendant of P. guttatus. It lives in the oceanic abyss, so it's blind and has a transparent skin. It begins to develope gill-like structures. *Telanthropus profundus (750 myh). The last post-human, a descendant of P. profundus. It's a benthonic filterer, lives attached to the seabed and has functional gills. It's only few cm high and goes extinct when the oceans evaporate. I could post some pictures, but I don't know how to do.
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