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What Will We Miss?
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Hey, Vsauce.
Michael here. And the year 6009
will be the very first year since 1961 that a year
when written in Hindu-Arabic numerals can be inverted
and still look the same. But you and I
probably won't live long enough to enjoy the year six thousand
and nine. Human lives just aren't long enough.
We will miss out on that. What other cool future offense will we be
missing? Well, first of all,
you and I will probably be gone before the completion of the time
pyramid in Wemding, Germany. It will eventually be a pile of
120 concrete blocks. But the builders
are only adding one block every 10 years.
Since beginning in 1993 they've added
only the first three. At this rate the pyramid will be completed in the year
The final block placed by
our great great great great great great, more than 30 greats
grandchildren. But even they will miss
an opportunity to frolic and play safely in the Chernobyl
Exclusion Zone. The zone of
alienation, where radioactive contamination from the 1986 disaster
will remain at levels too high
for safe human activity until not the year 4000,
not the 5000, not the 6000. It will finally be safe
probably in the year 22 000.
Possibly within our lifetimes but definitely within the next one
million years,
stars like Betelgeuse and Eta Carinae
will explode in brilliant supernovas
visible from earth. I'm bummed I'm probably going to miss out on these
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