BBC: Future timeline - a thousand/million/billion/trillion/quadrillion years from now

[vortex surfer]

Found this on BBC.com's future section.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc.com/future/bespoke/20140107-far-future/assets/images/far-future-timeline.png


Interesting how they think the Giza pyramid may still exist in one million years time. Makes you wonder just how paleoancient (to use Joseph Farrells term) the great pyramid could be..

For a bigger version of the image: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140105-timeline-of-the-far-future

[UpToLight]

Interesting. Especially the last stage drew my attention. If Earth doesn't die after 5.4 billion years it will die after 100 quintillion years? wow! such a big difference! I mean, being not consumed by Sun extends its life 99999999994600000000 years!

[Forevernyt]

Reading something like this makes me feel two ways.
1) How small and insignificant our lives are when viewed on this large of a scale. We are not even microseconds in this chart.
2) I want to see all this stuff happen.

Where's my timelord and his TARDIS??

[LivioRazlo]

I like how in the earlier points of the chart it states global warming melts the Greenland ice and all the carbon dioxide released before the year 2100 still remains - I just can't agree with these statements.

[vortex surfer]

"If Earth doesn't die after 5.4 billion years it will die after 100 quintillion years? wow! such a big difference! I mean, being not consumed by Sun extends its life 99999999994600000000 years!"

Yes, I also found this quite curious. It's a very big "either/or"-scenario!

[Metaphor]

My laptop dissolving in a hundred thousand years, I guess that isn´t covered by the apple-care warranty :-)http://cdn3.pcadvisor.co.uk/cmsdata/news/3220441/trashed4-w350-h500.jpg