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{{short description|Scientific projections regarding the far future}}
{{About|the far future as postulated by science| mathematically calculated astronomical and celendric predictions |List of future astronomical events|the far future in fiction|Far future in fiction|the far future in religion|Far future in religion|earlier future times|Timelines of the future}}
{{Distinguish|Timelapse of the Future}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}
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| 60 million
| If humans manage to collect all the [[lithium]] from seawater, this is when fuel for [[fusion power]] reactors will run out, assuming people use as much power as they did in 1995.<ref name="Ongena 3–14">{{cite journal
  |last=Ongena |first=J |author2=G. Van Oost |title=Energy for future centuries – Will fusion be an inexhaustible, safe and clean energy source? |journal=Fusion Science and Technology |volume=45 |series=2004 |issue=2T |pages=3–14 |url=http://www.euro-fusionscipub.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/EFDR00001.pdf |doi=10.13182/FST04-A464 |year=2004 |access-date=2020-10-28 |archive-date=2016-08-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160819140008/http://www.euro-fusionscipub.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/EFDR00001.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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| 5 billion
| If people manage to collect all the [[uranium]] from seawater, this is when the fuel for fission-based [[breeder reactor]]s will run out, assuming people use as much energy as they did in 1983.<ref name="Cohen"/>
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(contracted; show full) last1=Brownlee | first1=Donald E. | date=2010 | chapter=Planetary habitability on astronomical time scales | title=Heliophysics: Evolving Solar Activity and the Climates of Space and Earth | editor1-first=Carolus J. | editor1-last=Schrijver | editor2-first=George L. | editor2-last=Siscoe | chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M8NwTYEl0ngC&pg=PA79 | publisher=Cambridge University Press | isbn=978-0-521-11294-9 | ref=harv }}

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